For each of my blog posts about my venture concept, I tagged the words "revenge porn" and "survivors." I also tagged some of the pictures I posted with those words. The commenting with a link to my blog was the only other SEO tactic I engaged in.
2) What were your keywords. How did you select those keywords? Did you change or refine your keywords through the semester?
"Revenge Porn," "survivors," and "Post Back." I thought these words were really targeted towards my business (which is a service for survivors of revenge porn). In retrospect, I wish I had used the keywords "Gainesville revenge porn survivors." I selected these keywords because I thought the survivor part would differentiate me from a lot of the revenge porn resources on the web which generally use the term "victim." These keywords stayed the same throughout the semester.
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?
Um. I didn't really use social media to enhance my SEO effort. I don't even think I shared a blog post to my facebook at all. Surprisingly enough, I had a few classmates and friends tell me that they've read my blog posts. Which is strange because I didn't think I was doing too good of a job at using SEO.
4) What was your most "viral" post? In other words, which post obtained the most traffic? Why do you think?
My most "viral" post was the Free Money post. Which is terribly ironic because, while I completed the assignment, I didn't get credit for it because my video was downloading on my friend's computer. I know why it was viral though. So many students didn't do that post so when they went to do the commenting on it, they had to search through the class blog directory till they found someone who had actually did the assignment.
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?
Nope, I definitely didn't make it on the first page. I stopped looking for myself after page 26 of a "revenge porn survivors" search. In retrospect, I should have picked more specific words.
This is the image I found when I did an image search of the name of my blog lol
Cassandra, I think your venture concept is a really empathetic idea, and is good natured. I also didn't make it to the front page on my blog either, and certainly no where near it. But I definitely think that if you added those tags it would have shown up on more search results. Also, I laughed when I opened up the youtube video on the top of your blog. Check out my own post at http://kingkion.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html
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