I am pleased to announce that Garry Conn dot Com is pulling up on page 3 of Google’s SERP under the search term of, “Successful Blogging Tips“. Yesterday, I wasn’t appearing at all and today all of a sudden the site is listed on page 3. Garry Conn dot Com is ranked 28 out approximately 1.3 million pages. I am very happy!
Additionally, Garry Conn dot Com is mentioned:
- Twice on MSN’s home page under the two word term: “Successful Blogging” - View Results
- NUMBER 1 on Yahoo for “Successful Blogging” – View Results
Successful Blogging Tips #04
What keyword phrase or terms would you want your site to pull up in the search engines? If you could only have one… what would it be? What is the primary search terms you want your site pulling up in the search engine?
My primary phrase is, “Successful Blogging Tips” because that is what Garry Conn dot Com is all about, providing bloggers with tips that help them create and maintain successful blogs. Is my site about making money online, well… yes, but having a successful blog is more than just making money online. So if I was to target the search term, “make money online”, I would be limiting myself with the range of people who would be interested in reading my site.
- Choose a primary search phrase and coin your site with that name.
- Ideally, your domain name or parts of your URL have these words in them.
- Change your blog title to reflect your chosen search phrase.
(Example: Successful Blogging Tip by Garry Conn)
- Take a look at your Meta Tags and update them accordingly.
(Example: Title Meta Description and Meta Keywords)
- Your chosen keywords that you are marketing should be used frequently in your blog posts. You should have a category that is named identically and your content should wrap around this chosen phrase. Again, if this is what your site is primarily about, then doing this shouldn’t be too difficult.
Successful Blogging Tips Sponsors
Special thanks goes out to the following bloggers who have mentioned me or have provided a link back to my site using the anchor text, “Successful Blogging Tips”. If you would like to have your site mentioned here in my next Successful Blogging Tips article, please mention me on your site or add me to your blogroll using the text, “Successful Blogging Tips”. This is part #04 of #99 posts about Successful Blogging Tips.
- Wedding Blog added me to their blogroll. The Wedding blog is a blog that will help you plan your dream wedding on whatever budget you might have!
- Cheezmizan mentioned me in their blog post titled, “Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2007“.
- Blog about Money Online mentioned Garry Conn dot Com in a post titled, “Daily Link Love May 27th“
- Reflective Thinking has mentioned me on their post titled, “Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs“
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Date/Time: 5-28-2007 16:50:24 Comment #2509
Great going Garry. I have changed the blog roll text for your link to Successful Blogging Tips, hope it helps you in getting to page 1 soone.
Keith
Date/Time: 5-28-2007 16:54:54 Comment #2510
Keith,
I do appreciate that a lot.
Thanks for helping.
Date/Time: 5-28-2007 17:15:53 Comment #2512
Hey Garry, that’s great news! Keep up the great job you’re doing. You’re an inspiration to us all!
Date/Time: 5-28-2007 17:25:54 Comment #2513
See guys… look at Mark’s site! That is creative… the domain name is titled, “me and my drum”. Now to me, that’s catchy! I love it… these are examples of the next generation of blogs.
Mark, one tip though, my second click on your site was your about me page, which is a little empty. Tell the world more about yourself and your site! Show it off, fly your freak flag a little bit and have fun!!
Date/Time: 5-28-2007 20:11:41 Comment #2517
LOL
Thanks for the compliment, Garry! Yeah, I’ve been a little private since I started this blog of mine. But you’ve given me something to think about regarding that page. I should beef it up a bit.
Date/Time: 5-28-2007 20:37:54 Comment #2518
Including personal information isn’t necessary and I can understand that you would want to keep that private. But you should at a minimum include information to readers regarding what your site is about. Honestly as it stands now, you might as well not have the about me page up. If you want more readers to quickly learn about what your site is about, I would up date the page. Regardless if you do or don’t, I like your site.
Date/Time: 5-28-2007 20:44:00 Comment #2520
You had me at “…look at Mark’s site!” hehe
I’m off to do some updating.
Date/Time: 5-28-2007 22:32:05 Comment #2525
Cool man,
Drop me another comment when you finish the update. I would love to see it.
Date/Time: 5-29-2007 23:25:57 Comment #2560
Okay, I took another stab at it. I’m ready for your straight-shooting so be frank.
I didn’t want it to come off as some sort of “soapbox” statement, but I get the feeling it could be improved somewhat. Your comments are most appreciated.
Date/Time: 5-28-2007 18:14:35 Comment #2515
Thanks Garry for the kind mention. I hope you can also join the Top Ten Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007 writing project by creating your own top 10 entry too. Cheers!
Date/Time: 5-28-2007 20:40:42 Comment #2519
Tell me more about it. Who is the creator of this project? Where do I go to participate? I am interested in checking it out… it seems there are a few blog authors that included me on the list.
Date/Time: 5-28-2007 21:16:55 Comment #2522
Hi Garry, you ‘disappeared’ for a week with no posting and came back with so much great articles!
I’ve also nominated your blog in the Top 10 list, posted some 10 days ago. Without hesitation, your blog was the first to make my list.
My entry for Top 10 is here: http://betshopboy.blogspot.com/2007/05/top-10-emerging-influential-blogs-in.html
Date/Time: 5-30-2007 16:43:53 Comment #2563
Wow… thanks for adding me to the list… and thanks for making me #1 in the list!
Date/Time: 5-29-2007 11:21:00 Comment #2544
Great stuff, Garry. Glad to see your blog fixed and looking good. I must admit it was a bit of a shock to see your sudden change to “the announcement” mode after all of the hard work you have put in. But Murphys Law is always lurking just waiting to grab us.
I changed the text on my blogroll to “successful blogging tips”. Hope it helps out. Nice to see your blog steadily making progress.
Cheers!
Date/Time: 5-31-2007 11:04:32 Comment #2612
The site is now ranked 25th, which has bumped up 3 spots, so yes… your efforts can do nothing but help. Thank you so much! I am glad to hear from you again as well. I thought that I lost you as a regular reader. What do you need help with, what can I write about that will specifically help you as a blogger?
Date/Time: 5-29-2007 11:46:37 Comment #2547
Congrats! I’ve learned over the last few months how important it is to track your sites important search terms. It is also a great way to see improvement (kind of like stepping on the scale each day!).
Date/Time: 5-30-2007 16:45:57 Comment #2564
Thanks Kyle… I am glad that you have been doing some good tracking over there. I check your site from time to time and it is great to see it growing. I regret not spending as much time as I used to over there and in June I intend to spend more time over at all my friends blogs and just a little less time here… Not to worry though, I will still publish many posts here… but I am going to focus time on other sites too.
Date/Time: 5-31-2007 19:44:37 Comment #2625
Congratulations Garry! Google moved me up to number 3 for make money online this week, I guess we can both do the “dance of joy”!
Talk with you later,
George
Date/Time: 5-31-2007 22:54:22 Comment #2626
Nice post garry . i know by the time you are halfway up this series you will get to No1 page in search result . And i will also change the blogroll referring you as “Successful Blogging Tips ” .
Date/Time: 6-8-2007 01:33:42 Comment #2832
I think this is my first visit to your blog, looks good so far. Thanks for the tips on achieving a better result in google etc.
I’m currently at #7 for Kazakhstan Blog, hoping to get into the top 5 sometime
PS You seem to have two subscribe to comments via e-mail/notify me of followup comments via e-mail check boxes.
Actually that sounds familiar, maybe I have been before, I better go check the other posts