www.inkthinkerblog.com — According to this Google Search Engine Results Page Rank Position Tool, Inkthinker isn’t even in the first 200 results when you search “freelance writing blog.” Ouch. Today, I’m starting an informal SEO campaign to see if I can’t get Inkthinker into the top 25 results by the end of March.
Before I reveal my methods, I want to see if it works. I will keep you posted. If you think you see the things I’m doing on the blog itself, leave a comment with your observations. Here’s a hit: some of my attempts are already visible.
I’m also doing the same thing for my other blogs, so let’s see what happens! If you have any tips, please leave them in the comments. And in the meantime, if you haven’t linked to Inkthinker in your blogroll, I would surely appreciate the link love now.
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Hi Kk! I have had you added but haven’t got a return link — jmwriting.blogspot.com (Having your cake and eating it too!)
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Good luck Kristen. I look forward to seeing your progress. This should definitely be doable. There are only 14,000 competing pages for that exact phrase.
Again,good luck.
Jess, thought you were there already, sorry!
Heh heh, thanks for the perspective, Newest. We’ll see what happens…
kk
I was going to suggest adding that phrase to your page header (blog title), but I see you already have! Good luck with the effort, wishing you success.
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Ding, ding, ding to Erin for noticing the first visible change. ;)
kk
Hey — I have “E-mail SEO tips to Kristen” on my to-do list, but while I have a sec now to comment, I suggest you first do research on the keywords people actually use (not the ones you think they use) before changing around your site’s content or doing any other optimization. You’re so savvy, you’ve probably already done this, but thought I’d mention it just in case.
I look forward to seeing your results and learning from them. I’ll be watching.
With 14000 competitors, your success will be fabulous to behold.
A friend googled my userid and found things I did not suspect would come up (posts on a group I belong to) but didn’t pull up my blog, which I had thought at least thru my userid it would show up!
I am not pushing yet for such things, but I am studying SEO content writing and look forward to hearing how your experiment is going.
As Cory said, and what works a lot in my line of work, is once you think you’ve found the “magic formula” is to go back and see if it would work on the old stuff. I would adapt this to “going forward” and using several variations of a “magic formula” in order to ensure you reach your target audience. I would not go back and rewrite the old posts so that they pull those readers in. Perhaps Darren at ProBlogger.net has posted something on whether or not to go back and revamp prior posts to optimize the search engines for you?
Good luck, Kristen!
Hi KK, as a blogging newbie, I’m not sure I have in particular insight, but I did note that your first tags ID’d “freelance writing” and “freelance writing blog.” It makes sense to use them universally. I’d also suggest posting on the top ten blogs with links back to you.
DVH
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Great ideas, all! Thanks for the suggestions, Diane and DVH!
kk
Hiya, Kristen–
Just wanted to let you know you’re on my blogroll. I’d love it if you wanted to return the link love. http://www.temlynwriting.com/blog
Good luck with your SEO experiment!
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Oops, I forgot to mention that the title of my blog is Mrs. Write Right, Word Therapist, or some version thereof. :o)
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