From Zero To SEO

A few days ago I built some traffic from Stumbleupon and made some money. It was my first stumbler experience, but it was successful. This blog had 72 visits in one day.

Bounce rate was 35%. That’s pretty low for two months old blog. Average time on site was 1 minute 34 seconds and average number of pages viewed was 1.66.

My second blog had 138 visits. Blog’s niche is very popular. It’s no surprise to me that traffic was higher compared to From Zero To SEO.

Bounce rate was around 40% and average time on site was 56 seconds.

My friend who also became Stumbleupon user shared his blog statistics. Blog had 114 visits in 24 hours.

Average number of pages viewed was 1.76. Average time on site was 1 minute and 25 seconds. Bounce rate was approximately 40%.

Good results for Stumbleupon newbies!

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Everybody knows that URLs should be well optimized for search engines, but not everyone Blogger user knows how to do it. The common assumption that you should choose title very carefully since Blogger transforms title to slug when you click the “Publish Post” button, is wrong. Why should we think about title before slug is well optimized? Let’s find out how to apply the simplest technique that can improve blog’s ranking.

1. Analyze keywords using any research tool you like. Select the most relevant keywords for slug. Check word order and spelling. Keep in mind that slug can’t be changed.
2. Enter selected keywords in the title edit box. Blogger will use them for slug creation.
3. Open your text editor and write post title you like. Title and slug don’t have to be the same. Use as many keywords from slug as possible. Remember, title should be human readable. Do your best and optimize it for readers.
4. Write content and click the “Publish Post” button. Blogger will create slug from words you specified in title edit box. Exactly what you wanted.
5. Now go to editor and modify title. Just copy the title from text editor and click the “Publish Post” button again.

Don’t forget to follow the procedure every time you want different slug and title. Make it a habit and improve your blog’s ranking in the SERP.

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This was tough SEO week. I’ve improved my second blog’s ranking in Google by writing unique content. The reason was bad ranking in the SERP, much lower than top 100.

Firstly I couldn’t realize what I did wrong. I wrote many pages containing lots of target keywords. I optimized content for search engines and I got some dofollow links with good anchors. But nothing happened. The reason is duplicated content.

In fact, content is unique, but is based on existing articles. I made necessary corrections and put low competitive keywords. But now I see that it’s not enough.

I’ve stopped bothering about keywords and created few unique pages. And I succeeded. Unique content brings traffic. Also some low competitive keywords appeared in the SERP in top 50. Now I’m following the 2:1 writing scheme. Two posts with unique niche content per one rewritten post with low competitive keywords. It works just fine, but I’m going to switch to the 1:1 scheme soon. Of course, I will inform you about results.

If you have any suggestions about mixing rewritten content with unique content, please comment. I appreciate it very much.

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