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I've been getting great suggestions all day for upcoming editions of The Daily Feed. Special thanks to Kevin, Diana, Saira, Danette, Jenny and Donna for your feedback and ideas. Please keep sending your suggestions to mark@feedjit.com.
These are questions we've chosen from today's feedback that I'll be answering in upcoming editions:
K.S. After you've done the SEO magic you need to do, how long does it take for your site to start climbing in rankings?
K.S. Why has Google ranked some plain-jane commercial and non-information websites higher than others?
K.S. If your blog is a niche blog that focuses on something very specific, how can you turn it into a great resource where experts want to go and also attract thousands of hits?
K.S. What if you started your blog way back with a not-so-strategic name - like I did - but now when someone plugs in a search term I come up first or so on Google - so I am afraid to change the blogs name now. What should I do?
K.S. Do you seriously think I'll ever get up to hundred hits or so a day with a topic like ...?
S.F. How important is it to be specific on your blog? Being specific may define and facilitate getting hits from your target market, but sometimes it restricts you from sharing on your blog what you want to.
D.D. I make a living from my online business. How can I attract the right kind of people to my blog who are interested in buying from my online stores. It is a fairly exact niche of people and I don't want to hire anyone.
D.T. asked me to include a few war stories on the struggles I've encountered doing business online, things that inspired me and helped me overcome them.
Today's edition covers a question from Kevin S on how long SEO takes to give you a return on your time investment.
Between 2004 and 2005 it took us 10 months to grow a site from zero to 3,000 unique visitors per day from the search engines. In month 10 the traffic went from almost zero to 3000 visitors overnight and then up to 10,000 visits per day 3 months later.
Back in 2004 and 2005 Google would only update their search index every 1 to 3 months. We (and other SEO's) would call this the "Google Dance". For a few days search results would bounce around wildly as Google pushed out their new index to their data centers all over the world, and then things would stabilize for another few months.
Today Google updates almost in real-time. They will do a major index update once every month or two, but they are constantly adding new sites and new pages. Your newest blog entry will usually appear in the search results a few hours after you post it. A popular website can have reasonable SEO traffic a few days after launch if they have the right content and the right kind of launch.
Tomorrow I'll chat about strategies that will get you indexed fast and what "the right kind of launch" means.
Just an FYI: I'm still working on the eBook. It will be ready asap and will be announced here first. The Daily Feed subscriber discount still applies!
Regards,
Mark Maunder.
Feedjit Founder & CEO.
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