Google Gold

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?

The general approach and strategy to SEO was using general terms and key words such as “entrepreneurship”, “entrepreneur”, and “venture”. Some activities that I did for the activities is add labels and pictures for my post. I also marketed my blog when I commented on other people’s blogs. This advertising causes more views and more internet traffic.

2.What were your keywords? How did you select those keywords? Did you change or refine your keywords through the semester?

As I stated, I used keywords like “entrepreneurship”, “entrepreneur”, and “venture”. I generally try to use more positive wording. Throughout the semester I did little changes to my keywords by adding more keywords to increase the likeliness that someone will stumble on my blog.

3. How did you use social media to enhance your SEO efforts? What your 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?

I used to social media in my SEO efforts by marketing my blog and blog post to other people’s blog in the form of a comment. I try to tie my blog post to theirs and state what is similar and different so they would be more curious and visit my blog. I think that this use of social media really did help. It generated more page views then if I had not used it. I believe the results was generally receptive.

4. What was your most "viral" post? In other words, which post obtained the most traffic? Why do you think?

I think the most viral post that I had was Elevator Pitch two, based on the blog statistics. I think this is because many people at one point had to develop an Elevator pitch and so it is a common search on Google. Another reason, is that it was an assignment that involved other students to comment on it.

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 went in incognito mode to make that the results were accurate and I search entrepreneurship. Needless to say, I did not make it to the first page of Google results. It was pretty far back so I am not sure what page result I would be.