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Monday, May 3, 2010
An Apology & Keyword Tool
We’ve all been there, you start doing something when you have time and then – as other things creep up (let’s call them clients and staffing obligations) suddenly anything that isn’t hammering at your door tends to slip through the cracks. This blog has fallen victim to just that and for this – I am sorry. You come here for reliable and up-to-date information from the SEO realm and find a post 2 weeks old. Well that’s about to change.
Not only am I personally recommitting myself to posting more frequently (at least 3 times per week) – you’re going to see a lot more posts coming in from other Beanstalkers (or should I write … Beans talkers). But for today – you’ll have to put up with me.
So for today I’m going to discuss the newish face of Google’s keyword tool which is right now in beta. The data’s the same so what’s different. A lot if you know where to look.
My quick feedback is that I like it. I think it’s a big step forward to the lay-person and is far more intuitive. Here’s what I like:
So head over to the tool at https://adwords.google.com/ – at the top left client over to the beta tool and see what’s available. While you’re at it – schedule regular checks to do this every couple months … it’s just a good idea.
Not only am I personally recommitting myself to posting more frequently (at least 3 times per week) – you’re going to see a lot more posts coming in from other Beanstalkers (or should I write … Beans talkers). But for today – you’ll have to put up with me.
So for today I’m going to discuss the newish face of Google’s keyword tool which is right now in beta. The data’s the same so what’s different. A lot if you know where to look.
My quick feedback is that I like it. I think it’s a big step forward to the lay-person and is far more intuitive. Here’s what I like:
- I like that the trending data is shown by default. To me it’s a huge help to not just see if a phrase was highly search last month but what it’s volume has been like for the past year. This data is already available in the keyword tool but it’s displayed by default in the new version. Very helpful information. You’d be surprised at how many phrase have a 1 or 2 month spike that augments their importance. Personally – I want phrases that show steady traffic over all months.
- I like the new “Contains” option that allows you to further filter down your results based on what keywords you want in and what you don’t ant included (words like “free” for example).
- The Match Type has moved to the left. I’m neither here nor there about location but thought I’d let you know where it is.
- If you’re looking for suggestions – they also have a category selection so you can choose similar keywords by the category or filter by category if your keywords would span multiple industries (let’s use a phrase like “windows installation” for example).
- Google Insights link – I also like the link to Google Insights which gives the user more information on a phrase-by-phrase basis. With regional data, trend data, etc.
So head over to the tool at https://adwords.google.com/ – at the top left client over to the beta tool and see what’s available. While you’re at it – schedule regular checks to do this every couple months … it’s just a good idea.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
4 Classic Mistakes I Made In My First Year of Blogging [and How I Got 1000 Subscribers Anyway]
Realising how important it was to commit to blogging I vowed to blog for a year &, because I work best with a aim in mind, I set myself the challenge of getting 1000 subscribers after a year blogging with my deadline the finish of March 2010.
Like a lot of people I set up my blog as an experiment. I wanted to raise my profile as a writer & build up a blog which publishers would see as a useful marketing device.
The point of an experiment is to find out what works & what doesn't & from that point of view my experiment has been a successful four.
I picked 1000 subscribers as my aim because I read somewhere that this is the amount of subscribers a writer needs on their blog to get publishers interested. I know 1000 doesn't sound like a lot when you look at Problogger's RSS count, but I thought it was a number that was both achievable & challenging.
Although I spent a lot of time thinking about what to write about in my blog I still got it wrong. In the beginning I focused on writing a blog for people who require to move overseas but I soon ran out of steam. It was a subject I knew a lot about & loved but after about 4 months it didn’t interest me to keep me writing about it four times a week.
I started blogging in about March 2009 & there's a lot of mistakes I made during my first year of blogging that I'll do differently next time I set up a blog.
My Classic Blogging Mistakes
1. I changed my topic after 4 months
In the finish my blog topic chose itself broadening naturally to self improvement with the focus on helping people live their dream. Since lots of people have the same dream of travel & writing as me I had a nice angle & since I've been interested in travel, writing & self improvement for as long as I can recall it wasn't something I'd ever lose interest in or run out of things to write about.
As you can see from my Feedburner stats even after about 6 months of blogging in August 2009 I'd only got about 43 subscribers.
It was depressing but I'd made a promise to stick with blogging so I persevered. I even wrote a guest post for Problogger called Getting Over The Blogger's 6 Month Itch telling other bloggers why they needed to stick with it .
2. I only got my own domain name after 6 months of blogging
feedburner-stats.jpg
Because my blog was an experiment I didn't buy my own domain name or host the blog myself, it was hosted by Wordpress.
In August 2009 I got my own domain name & started hosting my blog there. That month I doubled my subscribers from 37 on August 1st to 83 on August 30th. Perhaps readers started taking my blog more seriously now I was.
3. I never invested in graphic design
There were four main problems with using Feedburner for email subscriptions. First it sent an email every time I posted which was overkill when I was posting four times a week. Secondly the emails were unbranded & ugly.
This February I switched to a different way of managing my email subscribers. If you look at the Feedburner graph that's when there's a drop off in subscribers because the email subscribers were being recorded on MailChimp. It lets me send out branded emails & is free if you have less than 500 email subscribers. I have a feeling choosing MailChimp could have been another mistake as all the professionals recommend Aweber so four times again my penny pinching could have cost me subscribers but at least my email newsletters only gets sent when I require them to, not every time my blog is updated. I can always switch to Aweber but if that happens I'll probably waste a of time changing over.
So How Did I Get 1000 Subscribers?
My husband & I threw together the look & feel of it based around the invitation for a leaving party they had in 2007. We're now working with a graphic designer to get a professional look for the blog. It will be interesting to see if that helps convert more subscribers but I'll never know how lots of potential readers & subscribers I've lost this year by not investing in graphic design at the beginning.
4. I used Feedburner for my email newsletters
Well, actually I've only got 923 so far (575 by RSS feed & 358 by email) at the time of writing I still have 16 days until my self-imposed deadline. I'm confident I'll make it to 1000 & if I don't I believe in rounding up so anything over 950 will do the job.
Here's how I did it:
If I can do it somebody can. I own a business, work from home, have two young children & run a busy household but in 12 months I still managed to set up a blog I'm proud of.
1. I kept going for the whole year even when it looked as if I'd never make it.
2. I wrote guest posts.
3. Even when my guest posts were rejected by my blogging heros I wrote more posts & tried again until they accepted four. I finally succeeded in November 2009 with guest posts on Problogger & Zen Habits. If you look at the graph again you can see a large jump in subscribers from 117 on November 1st to 478 at the finish of the month because of that.
4. I kept learning about blogging & improving my writing & my blog layout but although my subscribers rose over the next 3 months progress was slow.
5. I started posting four times a week in lieu of four times a week on my own blog so I had more time to write guest posts for other blogs because that proved the best way for me to find new readers.
6. In March 2010 with my deadline looming I went all out & had guest posts on four major blogs including Problogger, Zen Habits & Write to Done.
7. I believed in myself & ignored people who said it was a waste of time.
8. I worked hard & kept my aim in mind.
9. Four times I did set my blog topic I focused on it 100%.
10. I wrote my heart out & helped people by giving them the most useful information I had on how to make their dream come true.
Over the next year I'll be continuing the method of improving my blog by setting up the new design, adding incentives for subscribers, possibly offering a free e-book, writing more guest posts, working on my search engine optimisation & setting myself a new aim.
In March 2011 I'd like to have 5000 subscribers. But I worry it's low. Over the last year I've increased my subscribers 1000 times so if I do that again next year I ought to be aiming for 10 million subscribers but that ridiculous. Somehow I require to work out how lots of subscribers I ought to aim for after four years of blogging & then get on to it.
What have your worst blogging mistakes been & how do you measure your blog's success?
My ultimate aim is to make funds from my blog. I have a few ideas on how to do it but there's still lots of work to be done, experiments to be made & challenges to overcome. I'm looking forward to it.
Like a lot of people I set up my blog as an experiment. I wanted to raise my profile as a writer & build up a blog which publishers would see as a useful marketing device.
The point of an experiment is to find out what works & what doesn't & from that point of view my experiment has been a successful four.
I picked 1000 subscribers as my aim because I read somewhere that this is the amount of subscribers a writer needs on their blog to get publishers interested. I know 1000 doesn't sound like a lot when you look at Problogger's RSS count, but I thought it was a number that was both achievable & challenging.
Although I spent a lot of time thinking about what to write about in my blog I still got it wrong. In the beginning I focused on writing a blog for people who require to move overseas but I soon ran out of steam. It was a subject I knew a lot about & loved but after about 4 months it didn’t interest me to keep me writing about it four times a week.
I started blogging in about March 2009 & there's a lot of mistakes I made during my first year of blogging that I'll do differently next time I set up a blog.
My Classic Blogging Mistakes
1. I changed my topic after 4 months
In the finish my blog topic chose itself broadening naturally to self improvement with the focus on helping people live their dream. Since lots of people have the same dream of travel & writing as me I had a nice angle & since I've been interested in travel, writing & self improvement for as long as I can recall it wasn't something I'd ever lose interest in or run out of things to write about.
As you can see from my Feedburner stats even after about 6 months of blogging in August 2009 I'd only got about 43 subscribers.
It was depressing but I'd made a promise to stick with blogging so I persevered. I even wrote a guest post for Problogger called Getting Over The Blogger's 6 Month Itch telling other bloggers why they needed to stick with it .
2. I only got my own domain name after 6 months of blogging
feedburner-stats.jpg
Because my blog was an experiment I didn't buy my own domain name or host the blog myself, it was hosted by Wordpress.
In August 2009 I got my own domain name & started hosting my blog there. That month I doubled my subscribers from 37 on August 1st to 83 on August 30th. Perhaps readers started taking my blog more seriously now I was.
3. I never invested in graphic design
There were four main problems with using Feedburner for email subscriptions. First it sent an email every time I posted which was overkill when I was posting four times a week. Secondly the emails were unbranded & ugly.
This February I switched to a different way of managing my email subscribers. If you look at the Feedburner graph that's when there's a drop off in subscribers because the email subscribers were being recorded on MailChimp. It lets me send out branded emails & is free if you have less than 500 email subscribers. I have a feeling choosing MailChimp could have been another mistake as all the professionals recommend Aweber so four times again my penny pinching could have cost me subscribers but at least my email newsletters only gets sent when I require them to, not every time my blog is updated. I can always switch to Aweber but if that happens I'll probably waste a of time changing over.
So How Did I Get 1000 Subscribers?
My husband & I threw together the look & feel of it based around the invitation for a leaving party they had in 2007. We're now working with a graphic designer to get a professional look for the blog. It will be interesting to see if that helps convert more subscribers but I'll never know how lots of potential readers & subscribers I've lost this year by not investing in graphic design at the beginning.
4. I used Feedburner for my email newsletters
Well, actually I've only got 923 so far (575 by RSS feed & 358 by email) at the time of writing I still have 16 days until my self-imposed deadline. I'm confident I'll make it to 1000 & if I don't I believe in rounding up so anything over 950 will do the job.
Here's how I did it:
If I can do it somebody can. I own a business, work from home, have two young children & run a busy household but in 12 months I still managed to set up a blog I'm proud of.
1. I kept going for the whole year even when it looked as if I'd never make it.
2. I wrote guest posts.
3. Even when my guest posts were rejected by my blogging heros I wrote more posts & tried again until they accepted four. I finally succeeded in November 2009 with guest posts on Problogger & Zen Habits. If you look at the graph again you can see a large jump in subscribers from 117 on November 1st to 478 at the finish of the month because of that.
4. I kept learning about blogging & improving my writing & my blog layout but although my subscribers rose over the next 3 months progress was slow.
5. I started posting four times a week in lieu of four times a week on my own blog so I had more time to write guest posts for other blogs because that proved the best way for me to find new readers.
6. In March 2010 with my deadline looming I went all out & had guest posts on four major blogs including Problogger, Zen Habits & Write to Done.
7. I believed in myself & ignored people who said it was a waste of time.
8. I worked hard & kept my aim in mind.
9. Four times I did set my blog topic I focused on it 100%.
10. I wrote my heart out & helped people by giving them the most useful information I had on how to make their dream come true.
Over the next year I'll be continuing the method of improving my blog by setting up the new design, adding incentives for subscribers, possibly offering a free e-book, writing more guest posts, working on my search engine optimisation & setting myself a new aim.
In March 2011 I'd like to have 5000 subscribers. But I worry it's low. Over the last year I've increased my subscribers 1000 times so if I do that again next year I ought to be aiming for 10 million subscribers but that ridiculous. Somehow I require to work out how lots of subscribers I ought to aim for after four years of blogging & then get on to it.
What have your worst blogging mistakes been & how do you measure your blog's success?
My ultimate aim is to make funds from my blog. I have a few ideas on how to do it but there's still lots of work to be done, experiments to be made & challenges to overcome. I'm looking forward to it.
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