SEO question concerning blogs and updates - GoFuckYourself.com

Highest Def · 07-20-2010, 03:20 AM

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

Agent 488 · 07-20-2010, 07:13 AM

yes and no. possibly maybe.

Nicky · 07-20-2010, 07:27 AM

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.

Marcus Aurelius · 07-20-2010, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Agent 488

yes and no. possibly maybe.

what he said

HowlingWulf · 07-20-2010, 08:14 AM

If you want one blog to be successful, build 10 of them.

punkpred · 07-20-2010, 08:22 AM

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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.

Highest Def · 07-20-2010, 04:03 PM

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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.

Why · 07-20-2010, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Agent 488

yes and no. possibly maybe.

quoted for truth.

Varius · 07-20-2010, 05:17 PM

- 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.

CYF · 07-20-2010, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by HowlingWulf

If you want one blog to be successful, build 10 of them.

good advice

icymelon · 07-20-2010, 05:31 PM

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

Highest Def · 07-20-2010, 07:25 PM

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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.

07-20-2010, 03:20 AM	#1
Highest Def In the Cave of Gold Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: ONLINE Posts: 660	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 __________________

07-20-2010, 07:27 AM	#3
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07-20-2010, 07:13 AM	#2
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