1) A discussion of your general
approach and strategy to search engine optimization (SEO). What were some of
the activities you did for each blog post to pursue SEO?
My strategy wasn’t really anything special. I just wrote my blog post
like how I susually write. Then if anything I would go back and make sure I was
using descriptive words like “Gainesville” “Florida” “University of Florida” etc.
2) What were your keywords? How did you select those keywords? Did you
change or refine your keywords through the semester?
My idea was really broad. It was building underground parking garages in Gainesville
to minimize the universities parking problem. So I would use general key words
like “parking” “parking garages” “construction” “underground construction”, but
then I would also use more specific words like “University of Florida” and “Gainesville”.
3) How did you use social media to enhance your SEO efforts? What your
surprises or general impression of using social media to improve your blog's
profile? Was social media generally receptive of your blog, or did it get
ignored?
Other than my blog and YouTube I really didn’t market it on any other social
media platforms. If I was really going to pursue my venture sharing my blog on Facebook
and etc. Would have been something I would have done. But I did add key words
about my project on the bottom of all my customer interviews. This helps when
users are searching for videos on YouTube.
4) What was your most "viral" post? In other words, which post
obtained the most traffic? Why do you think?
My most popular post was a more recent one, it was the “What’s Next” assignment.
On that blog post I have 8 comments and 22 views. To be honest I am not sure if
this has anything to do with the key words I used on the assignment. What I’m
thinking is that this was one of the longer assignments we’ve had this year and
not a lot of people did it so a lot of people got assigned to review mine. And my
other thought is that most of those views could have been me constantly
clicking on it and changing spelling errors.
5) Finally, did you make it to the first page of Google results for your
keywords? If not, what page of results did you make it to?
I Googled “Underground Parking Garage Gainesville Florida” and I was not
the first or the second or the third lick to come up. Actually I wasn’t even on
the first page. But my first result was the downtown parking garage website for
downtown Gainesville. I looked to see if I could find my page on google but
after passing the 7th page I gave up.
I think you did a great job reflecting and you were very honest in your approach. I think it was a great idea to include location as one of your keywords, maybe that was something I could have done. I could not find myself on any of the first pages as well. Maybe if we established our businesses, we can make it to the first page. Check out my post http://ent3003sw.blogspot.com/2016/04/going-for-gold.html
ReplyDeleteHi Alo, I really liked reading your post. I feel you on the last section about googling your blog. The same thing happened to me. I gave up looking for my blog after a few pages. But I think it's good that you added University of Florida in your labels. Here is a link to my post: http://entbyjts.blogspot.com/2016/04/going-for-google-gold.html
ReplyDeleteHi Alo, I enjoyed reading your post! I think adding key words on Youtube to share with a public is definitely one of the ways to increase viewers and the subscription. Unlike you, I set all my videos private so that I had the limited people who can see my blog. However, interestingly, my bog was on the first page on the Google search engine. I think it is because my business concept was not so broad. You can take a look at my post here!
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