Earlier in the month I wrote a post, SEO 101, that dealt with the basics that comprise search engine optimization. I mentioned how I learned a lot from the Pronet Advertising blog and applied what I learned about SEO to my blog. At the time I only had limited traffic results to compare. Now that Google and other search engines have had time to react to the changes, I’ve begun to realize the full effects of my SEO work.
As they say, your mileage may vary, but I got some great results. My previous traffic usually reached 2,000 unique hits (or a bit higher) per day during the week and slightly under during the weekends. What you see below are the traffic stats for this week. I have received no linkings on any big sites during this time period.
I will admit, I had always been skeptical of SEO and its “black magic”. However, this time everything pulled through and I’m now raking in over 1,000 extra unique visitors per day. I hope this trend continues.
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Paul, let me just point that there’s a common myth that SEO is “black magic” or unethical, blah blah. Sure, there’s definitely a lot of SEO’s that practice unethical techniques but there is no tricks involved for ethical SEO. Think of SEO as optimizing for people to find you through search engines, not optimizing for the search engines themselves. Does that make sense?
If I understand it correctly you didn’t employ any trickery or anything like that. All you did was move around the placement of the title tags, add unique meta description tags, and a few other small misc things. No black magic there.
Anyhow, glad to see the good results. If possible can you break down the numbers for just search engine referrals?
Thanks
I’m surprised. I just started looking into this SEO thing a week ago when you mentioned it on your blog. My website already does just about everything those articles mentions. There was only a few minor things I needed to tweak. I guess that explains why *insert search term here* seems to always go to my website.
[code lang="html"]Direct (Past 24 Hours) 1,139 21%
Referrers (Past 24 Hours) 1,564 29%
Searches (Past 24 Hours) 2,599 49%[/code]
Compared to about 20-25% from search engines before SEO.
Paul, i’m seeing the exact same results. I topped Friday 5,425 – 2,450 when usually i’m under 4.000 and 1.800 uniques.
lol you know whats funny… that slight increase in your search results probably means there is some site out there with a *random* slight decrease due to your site showing up above theirs now. haha
Paul,
I am a lurker on your blog :-) You contribute so much. Thank You! I appreciate your advice on SEO and put some of it to work (although I have a long way to go before I finish).
Best,
Taryn
I decided to get some SEO done on my blog when I read your article and it’s really helped my traffic from search engines. Getting listed on the Open Directory can help drive some serious traffic from Google searches too.
“I’m now raking in over 1,000 extra unique visitors per day. I hope this trend continues.”
Why?
@Elizabeth: What do you mean why? More traffic is always a good thing. More readers, more user interaction, more comments – a livelier environment. =)
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