Google Gold

Hello everyone! Here is my overview for my blog and the work I've done for SEO

1) A discussion of your general approach and strategy to search engine optimization (SEO). What were some of the activities you did for each blog post to pursue SEO? 

To be honest I don't think I really had and SEO strategy, which is unfortunate.  All the way during this class I was so focused and being able to complete my blog posts and work on my skills, I never really thought of how to make my blog more visible online.  I think the one strategy I actually did try was to make sure I had a unique name for my blog and not a generic "ENT3003" name so that way I would show up online.

2) What were your keywords. How did you select those keywords? Did you change or refine your keywords through the semester?

Like I had said, I didn't realize much for keywords.  I think the only real key words that I used were in my blog's title because if you looked up the words in the title my blog would show up on Google. As for other keywords, I used very generic ones, like entrepreneurship, innovation, elevator pitch, etc., but that doesn't really help me reach the top for Google searches.

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?

This is one thing I was actually very active on.  So I constantly shared my blog posts every week to my Facebook page and family and friends would then share my post.  I think that because I was able to share on social media, I got a bigger view count on my blog; it was more than just the 2 or 3 students from the class that HAD to comment on my post (no offense guys).  I think social media was receptive depending on how interesting the content of the post was, and even more receptive when there were videos involved. 

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 actually a tie between my first and second elevator pitches haha.  I think because a lot of us students in the class had a different approach to our own pitches that we looked to other people's pitches for comparison or to see what we liked in their pitch that we would like to incorporate into our own in the future.  This was one of the bigger assignments we had this semester so I think that's why it might have been my top post.

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?

I most definitely did not make the first page of the Google results for my keywords; I didn't even make it to page 4 so it is a lost cause.  What I do make the top of the page for is if you type in my blog's title into Google haha.  I will try to pay more attention to SEO for future reference, because maybe if I had been more attentive my blog's traffic could have been higher.