Thank You, Google Update!

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Just sharing my progress since the latest Google Update. This is activity related to bakingnaturally.org, a baking website where I share recipes and reviews of various products related to baking:

I've been online since August. While I have seen spikes occasionally where my queries have shot up for a day or two, since this last Google update, not only have the queries stayed steady, but my actual clicks per day have doubled.

My sessions have increased tremendously as well:

Again, I've seen activity spikes before - usually after sharing a particularly good recipe via Facebook, Pinterest and Google+. But this is just normal activity now.

I have about 43 posts on my page. I have 10 on Page 1 of Google. This type of result inspires me to work on more posts to provide quality results for my readers, which in turn will draw more visitors.

Are people engaged in my site? Well, here's my latest Bounce Rate report. You can see that, when the Pages/Session increases, the Bounce Rate decreases (because that's how it's calculated). The more I provide good content, CROSS-LINK within my page, I can see both metrics improve at once. I consider a bounce rate in the low 80s to be pretty decent.


And finally, I'm seeing clicks on Google AdSense. I'd removed it from my page back in my foolish days of buying PPC ads (you can't have both at once). My PPC ads did bring in traffic, but I didn't yet have enough engaging content to keep them on site. My bounce rate pegged the scale for weeks afterward. I never bothered to put AdSense back on until just a week ago. But now I'm seeing a steady increase in clicks there.

I'm not running a site that sells WA until I see for myself that you can make money independent of that. So I'd bet my results are pretty typical of a sales/review site. I've posted 43 posts since August . . . if YOU were to post more consistently than that, I'd bet you'd see much better results than this.





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You are making steady and great progress!

It looks like you have something there..43 post, I can't imagine that many post with my niche, but you are doing great so keep up the good work!

Doing good Don. Stay with it

I have only been doing all this for 2 weeks now, but its fun. I logged into my Google Analytic s and could see which countries and browsers....have hit my page. Im just a newbie... but 111 hits so far.

Everyone does that! It is fun to watch the live mode and see where you're getting clicks. It only gets better as you continue to post.

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