I sit with a note pad, scribbling down ideas and end up screwing it up. This blog business is tricky. Plus, I still haven't really found my niche, like most bloggers do. Although, I'm kind of going for the angle of 'social media experimentation and understanding'.
So in a bid to carve myself deeper into this niche, it's probably worth updating you on my progress so far. Here it is:
Pre March
• Joined social sites: Facebook, You Tube, Friends Reunited, MySpace
Early March
• Joined: Twitter, Blogger, Yammer and Linked In
14th March - 21st March
• Created my blog
• Wrote first post: Social Media... the end of productivity as we know it?
• Set up Google Analytics on blog
• Verified blog with Google Webmaster
• Added Twitter feed to blog
• Added blog URL to Twitter, Facebook, Linked In and MSN Messenger profiles
• Distributed blog via Ping-o-Matic!
• Submitted URL directly to Google, resulting in the blog being crawled the following day
22nd March
• Wrote second post: Dealing with call centres - should we change OUR attitude?
• Started adding labels to posts
24th March onwards
• Wrote third post: Mums on maternity leave - sites to help ease the boredom
• Installed SEO toolbar, what a fantastic find!
The results to dat
e• 66 visits
• 25 page views - best performing day, 22/03
• Top referrer: blogger.com
• 3 weeks from first post to driving traffic from search engines
• The experiment for my third post seems to be paying off as it's currently my top performing post and is ranked in 6th place in Google for the keywords 'boredom maternity leave'
Blog tools used
• Google Analytics
• Google Webmaster
• Twitter Feed
• Ping-o-Matic
• URL submission to Google
• SEO Book toolbar
What's next?
• Investigate how to produce a sitemap for my blog and sort out the robot.txt file - Google doesn't seem to like the labels on my posts
• Try and increase my blog's PageRank through link building
• Research further the world of social media and how I can harness its power
• Continue blogging
On that note, I best get on with it!
Lou_geek
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