A Case Study On Lessons Learned - Search Engine Rankings

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In this blog I will be going over the steps using the lessons learned from Kyle and Jay on various topics. Following these lessons helped me to get ranked high in the Google, Bing and Yahoo Search Engines.

My main purpose in writing this article is to help members who are not familiar with this process yet, to show what I did to get the ranking results that I will reveal at the end. Consider this a teaching moment from another student like you.

For those who are familiar with these procedures and already follow them, I'd appreciate any likes and comments if you do things differently and why.

Kyle's Bootcamp Training - Review Template

In the Affiliate Bootcamp training, Phase 2 Lesson 4, Kyle taught how to create reviews and using targeted keywords. I followed his instructions and worked on creating a Review Template that I can use for all my future reviews.

Those that I have already written that do not comply, like the one I wrote about Wealthy Affiliate, I will return to them later and redo them to comply. Then I will resubmit them for Indexing in Search Console.

The Keyword Criteria I used is common to both Kyle and Jay's teachings as you would expect. Namely, Avg. > 100; QSR < 100 and a KQI with a GREEN color. Jay stated that he doesn't bother with what the other numbers say for Traffic and SEO.

Avg means the average number that specific Keyword receives in searches per month.

The Quoted Search Results (QSR) is the number of competing websites ranked in Google for this particular Keyword.

The Keyword Quality Indicator (KQI) when GREEN that is the best result.

The Keyword Phrase I eventual adopted after doing my Jaaxy Research was:

What Is The Click Funnels Affiliate Program?


Note that the Avg of 356, QSR of 27 and KQI = Green complies rather well. The fact that the Traffic is 61 and SEO is 91 adds more reassurance. Although if these numbers were different I wouldn't worry about it because I trust Kyle and Jay.

The Review

You can read my actual review on my website that you can access on my Profile Page. I had already requested, received and approved several comments. If you do read it I would appreciate any additional comments from you,

When I wrote my post, I amended the title to create a long-tailed Keyword as follows:

What Is The ClickFunnels Affiliate Program? Is It Right For You?

The phrase in Italics is in addition to what is in the permalink. This is to make the article more personal.

WordPress SEO Details

Everything I did here I have learned from several of Kay's webinars on this topic. In the month of January, Jay is creating a brand new niche website on the topic of Home Safety. This was very timely for me because he had covered what I was able to implement in my post SEO actions in WordPRess.

Metadata Summary


On this page I manually filled in the Seo Title, Description and Keyword. The Categories and Tags were automatically filled in from the Main Metadata page I will be showing next:

Main Metadata Page



There is a lot going on in this section so let me explain the details.

Categories and Tage

I had previously mentioned that the Categories and Tags in the Metadata summary page were automatically filled in. This is the page where I manually entered that data. Notice the categories I checked off in the top right and the tags I entered just below it. This is the data that gets automatically transferred.

Featured Image

Moving further down I added a Featured Image. This is what will appear in the Blog Roll after the title. I have standardized a dimension of 400 x 200 pixels. This wasn't the case until recently so many of my earlier articles have all kinds of sizes. When I have to time I will be going amend those. But that is not going to adversely affect my results.

Main Settings

I filled in the Title and Description, also called the Meta Title and Meta Description. These are automatically added to the Preview Snippet that is displayed in the Search Engines.

Social Settings



After clicking the Social tab in the top left this page appears. Here is where you can fill in the title and description again. The difference is more words are allowed that enables more details to be added.

In the Main settings the limits are 60 for the Title and 160 for the Description. Here we are allowed 95 and 200.

When you scroll further down there are entries you can make for Facebook and Twitter. I am not going to go into these details here as I left them blank. I need to learn more about the correct way to address that section.

This is an example to show this is not a good reason to hold me back from publishing, I can always return to make amendments.

Onward to the search engine results.

Search Engine Results

Yahoo

I'm showing Yahoo first because this post appeared in the #1 slot on Page 1 of Yahoo. I obtained the results using the Site Rank feature in Jaaxy.

Bing

Here it is on Page 1, position 3.



Google

At this time my article appears on page 5 of Google. It will need more time before it gets ranked on page 1. Since I am only using the Lite version of Jaaxy, I cannot use it to show results that appear on other than page 1. For this I had to enter the Keyword in the Google search engine itself and then scroll down to page 5 where it was displayed.

Landing on Page 5 out of 552K results is pretty good especially after only 4 days. I will be going be checking Google for rank improvements over the next week or so.

Google Search Console

After I completed my article I did a URL Inspection to get it Indexed in Google Search Comsole. Here is the result after a day:

Closing Thoughts

This was my first review article where I followed the lessons learned in Wealthy Affiliate. I will be using this approach for all future review posts. I will be going be using this same SEO approach for future articles.

What I have covered here is predominantly On Page SEO procedures. The Of Page SEO procedures are handled through social media and email list promotions. And I haven't done any of that yet.

I feel this shows that the training here works. Notice that there is still room for improvement when I address the Off age SEO activities.

Articles about ClickFunnels are quite competitive. Hence, I am happy with the results.

At the end of my article I concluded that there are better ways than using the ClickFunnel Affiliate Program for Affiliate Marketing. And that the best place to learn how to create a successful affiliate marketing business the reader should check out Wealthy Affiliate.

In this case I had to decide whether to send the viewer to my Wealthy Affiliate Review page or to add the click through banner. I did the latter. After I make changed to my Wealthy Affiliate Review post using these methods, I will add a link to that in this ClickFunnels review.

One last thing. Do you think this article coild be a good subject for a video?

I hope you found this post interesting and informative. Please leave any comments or suggestions below.

Cheers!

Edwin

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Thanks for the information Edwin - and yes I think a YouTube video on it would be a great idea, and be sure to reference the blog post in the video and put a link in the description box.

I look forward to watching that video soon!

Best regards,

L. D. Sewell

I read your article on ClickFunnell and found it quite informative. I also left you my comment. Your explanation of how you achieved page one is very helpful.

Glad it was helpful to you Russell. Thanks for leaving a comment as well. I wish you much success in your affiliate marketing journey.

Cheers!

Edwin

Wonderful post, Edwin!

Thanks for your good wishes Florintino. Much success goes your way.

Edwin

Welcome and I wish you the same, Edwin!

That is a great article! Wow!! Great accomplishment!
Wanda ๐Ÿ–’๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‚

You're most welcome Wanda. Thanks for your kind wishes!
Cheers!
Edwin

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