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Tagging and RSS feeds are for SEO Losers
99% of the traffic to SEO Buzz Box comes via RSS Feeds, isn’t that an amazing stat? I am not really sure exactly why I get no traffic from search engines in this blog. You think with a PR6 and a good steady flow of traffic from natural backlinks and tagging something would start sticking. The three things that might be causing this are:
1. I often prune posts, this could be throwing Google off in it’s attempt to build a site flavor (make sense out of my content) which is a major part of their algorithm.
2. I am in competition with search engine news sites and competitive SEOs that already have good standing in search engines.
3. I link out to a bunch of spammers (probably not the case because I can find many blogs doing the same and doing well in search engines).
So thank God for RSS feeds and Tagging!
Want to know a way to get an extra 1000 hits a day or more in your niche while waiting for search engines to make sense out of your content?
If you use Wordpress and your audience is “SEO” simply use the tag: SEO and watch your stats light up.
I tested this using a plugin called “Live” by making a post and putting just “SEO” as the tag, then running back and diving into my tinfoil lined bunker to watch for traffic. Sure enough, ALL my traffic comes via RSS!!
For those of you who are not getting any love from search engines Technorati and Del-icio-us are currently #8 and #9 in Google for “SEO”. This was nice of Google to rank them that high in their algorithm to give us seo losers a chance to make a friends in this extremely competitive niche.
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December 4th, 2006 at 6:53 am
I hate to sound like a curmudgeon, but I find a great deal of irony in reading a SEO blogger who says “I am not really sure exactly why I get no traffic from search engines in this blog.” There’s a group of SEOs getting together at Panera Bread in Arlington, tonight. Perhaps you’d like to join us and get some ideas how to resolve that issue. ;)
December 4th, 2006 at 8:28 am
LOL, yes indeed Peter, if things keep going this way I will be forced to join the dark side and meet in secret places to trade in Google juice.
In other news, my sites that link to places Google approves of are doing well. Oh well…
;-(
December 4th, 2006 at 10:13 am
parasite rss seo … no wonder the search engines don’t like you ;-)
December 4th, 2006 at 10:16 am
I try to be good. ;-(
December 5th, 2006 at 10:52 am
Sounds like the stumbleupon.com toolbar to me. I don’t even HAVE the damn thing and it’s sending more traffic to me than anything (1000+ visitors in two separate 14-hour periods.)
Hey, why ask why if it gets there, right?
December 5th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Yessir!
December 9th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
This is very interesting and made me want to check my own blog stats. Here’s what I found as the top ten referrers:
google.com/search
Bookmark or direct
search.yahoo.com/search
http://www.digg.com
http://www.google.co.uk/search
digg.com
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display
http://www.google.ca/search
search.msn.com/results.aspx
http://www.google.com/ig
And these are my top 5 referring phrases:
marketing blog
online marketing
blog marketing
marketing blogs
seo blog
Now that must either mean the blog is extra SEO’d or my posts simply suck and no one stays a RSS subscriber for long. :)
Of course I’m coming up on my 3rd year anniversary of blogging in a few weeks and that might have something to do with it. Longevity of links + content = trust for rankings.
One tip I would toss out for increasing readers is to offer a RSS to email type of option for subscribing. Of the subscribers I do have, 17% of them do so via Feedblitz.
December 9th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Thanks for the tips Lee!
Yes indeed, time is surely one of the factors for organic ranking, I have just arrived in this arena so we will see.