Did You SEO Your Site?
Posted on June 17, 2008 by Melvin
Well going back when this blog was born, one of the things I have planned is to experiment on different stuffs. So the first thing that I did was not to optimize my site for search engines and see if the traffic can still have its way. Basically, at first I don’t really feel optimizing this site much for SE because it’s a personal one and besides I know people will somehow get here. I even remember someone saying “SEO your site dude”. Of course I understand that I must make the most of search engines.
Looking to my Analytics, I saw that the blog had over 800 page views and a very high bounce rate and NO traffic from Search Engines. So what I did last week was tweak my site for search engines. I didn’t really do it fullblast, as I’ve said i’m in the testing mode. This week I was surprised to see that there was a small spike on traffic from search engines. The 0% before turned to 6%. It only means that optimizing really works and it works for the good of your site.
I have seen several blogs with great contents not optimizing their site and I don’t really have anything against them. Who knows they might just be testing the waters too! For those people who do not know it, it’s not really hard actually. You just need to read and usually it’s easier than what most people think. Google loves WordPress blogs a lot and having a wordpress site is a great booster whatever projects you may have. Joost De Valk has written a very very very great guide on WordPress SEO.
How about you? Have you completely optimized your site already? Did you SEO it?
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Discussion: 9 Comments
Ganesh
- 17th Jun, 08 01:06pm
Yes. Optimizing your your blog for search engines really helps a lot. Personified.com gives some rather good SEO tips. Plus I use his Copyblogger theme which is an added bonus since it is fully coded with SEO in mind.
Tom - StandOutBlogger.com
- 17th Jun, 08 02:06pm
SEO is so important. I have bookmarked that link and will be working on my blogs over the next couple of days to make sure they are SEO’d properly
Rajaie AlKorani
- 17th Jun, 08 02:06pm
I haven’t brought in any visitors from search engines yet, but I’ll be experimenting to change that.
Joost de Valk
- 17th Jun, 08 09:06pm
Hey Melvin, thx
BTW: you need to fix your theme, I can’t read the text in the 3 input fields above, because they’re white on white…
Sabeur
- 17th Jun, 08 10:06pm
I think SEO is just too much hype over something simple … its a hype that will end. Focus on content.
Melvin
- 18th Jun, 08 12:06am
@joost de valk, hey thanks, someone reminded that few weeks ago but i forgot it..
@ganesh, yeah.. Copyblogger’s theme is really one of the best free themes out there..
@sabeur, yeah maybe but what is certain is it’s very important
Code It Red
- 18th Jun, 08 12:06pm
Well, I get most of my traffic from search engines, so I really need it. Without it I wouldn’t be getting many hits at all.
Master Networker
- 24th Jun, 08 04:06pm
Melvin “Cool” site – nice layout and easy to read..
I uploaded an  SEO Manual to the “advice” section of my blog called:
The SEO Guide for WordPress 2.5 Blogs – I found it really handy
~john~
Dilson Decano
- 9th Aug, 08 03:08am
actually i have 2 post that is seo optimized, and i am experimenting on it. i did keyword research first and make a blog post.