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  • Highest Def
    In the Cave of Gold
    • Jun 2010
    • 660
    #1

    SEO question concerning blogs and updates

    I have a 100% hand written blog. About 1 month old. I build and submit sitemaps. I update every day. I have 100+ pages indexed. I am seeing decent numbers starting to roll in, but ONLY to my index page. None of the individual posts see any direct clicks. Is this normal for a new site? Will it change? Will updating daily and essentially changing the content of my index page hurt me one day and help me the next?

    Thanks GFY
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    • Agent 488
      Registered User
      • Feb 2006
      • 22511
      #2
      yes and no. possibly maybe.

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        • Nicky
          Too lazy to set a custom title
          • Mar 2003
          • 30071
          #3
          Yes It's normal for a new site to not have any/much direct traffic to individual posts. You need to build strong back links and also make sure you deep link trade. Changing the content on the index page will ofc alter your rankings but not as much as you might think since you still have the same meta title and description and I assume you follow the niche and keywords of your blog decently.

          When you update daily Google will spider your pages often. Focus on getting relevant back links with the anchor keywords you want to rank for and keep updating.

          gfynicky @ gmail.com

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            • Marcus Aurelius
              No Refunds Issued.
              • Apr 2003
              • 14809
              #4
              Originally posted by Agent 488
              yes and no. possibly maybe.
              what he said

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                • HowlingWulf
                  Confirmed User
                  • Nov 2001
                  • 1662
                  #5
                  If you want one blog to be successful, build 10 of them.
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                  webmaster AT howling-wulf.com

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                    • punkpred
                      Confirmed User
                      • May 2007
                      • 1434
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Nicky
                      Yes It's normal for a new site to not have any/much direct traffic to individual posts. You need to build strong back links and also make sure you deep link trade. Changing the content on the index page will ofc alter your rankings but not as much as you might think since you still have the same meta title and description and I assume you follow the niche and keywords of your blog decently.

                      When you update daily Google will spider your pages often. Focus on getting relevant back links with the anchor keywords you want to rank for and keep updating.
                      Add to that not to use international terms but stick to English.
                      Example: Porno will get you a lot of S.American traffic so exclude them from your tags and blog entries.
                      HDVBucks

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                        • Highest Def
                          In the Cave of Gold
                          • Jun 2010
                          • 660
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Nicky
                          Yes It's normal for a new site to not have any/much direct traffic to individual posts. You need to build strong back links and also make sure you deep link trade. Changing the content on the index page will ofc alter your rankings but not as much as you might think since you still have the same meta title and description and I assume you follow the niche and keywords of your blog decently.

                          When you update daily Google will spider your pages often. Focus on getting relevant back links with the anchor keywords you want to rank for and keep updating.
                          Thanks Nicky. That's what I was hoping. As long as I know I didn't do something terribly wrong, I will keep at it.

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                            • Why
                              MFBA
                              • Mar 2003
                              • 7230
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Agent 488
                              yes and no. possibly maybe.
                              quoted for truth.

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                                • Varius
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Jun 2004
                                  • 6890
                                  #9
                                  - Change the page title, keywords, description per post (many plugins offer this ability)
                                  - Make use of tags if you don't already, I have seen tag pages rank both quickly and well
                                  - Submit sitemaps if you aren't already doing so to Yahoo Site Explorer, Google Webmaster Tools and so forth
                                  - Get more backlinks to your individual post pages

                                  That should solve your problem.
                                  Skype variuscr - Email varius AT gmail

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                                    • CYF
                                      Coupon Guru
                                      • Mar 2009
                                      • 10973
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by HowlingWulf
                                      If you want one blog to be successful, build 10 of them.
                                      good advice
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                                        • icymelon
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Dec 2007
                                          • 3220
                                          #11
                                          the more links you get to your blog the more authority your site will gain and the deeper the spiders will crawl. other factors besides updating daily impact serps such as.
                                          1) link velocity
                                          2) stability of site. how long its been online
                                          3) authority of the sites linking to it

                                          its more about the sum of the parts if that makes sense
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                                            • Highest Def
                                              In the Cave of Gold
                                              • Jun 2010
                                              • 660
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by Varius
                                              - Change the page title, keywords, description per post (many plugins offer this ability)
                                              - Make use of tags if you don't already, I have seen tag pages rank both quickly and well
                                              - Submit sitemaps if you aren't already doing so to Yahoo Site Explorer, Google Webmaster Tools and so forth
                                              - Get more backlinks to your individual post pages

                                              That should solve your problem.
                                              I do all that except the backlinks to the individual posts/pages. I guess that's the next logical step.

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