Hi Frank,

That’s a good point. Since our paid ads take precedent, indexing is not strictly necessary.

Wouldn’t it be a strange thing if our PPC posts got ranked organically as well as through paid ads? In those cases I wonder if a post could appear twice on page 1, as an ad as well as through SEO?

Congrats on your PPC site being indexed too.

Cheers.

Edwin

Thanks,Edwin!

Anything is possible, but I’d be surprised if they got ranked high enough to get any organic traffic.

You need quite a bit of published content to get decent traction.

The same URL should only appear once on the same page, so the paid ad should take precedence.

Hi Frank,

Ranking can be perplexing sometimes. I May have told you I created a website to write my story on. I referenced it in my previous blog post here.

It only has 4 posts on it. And I have not written a new one in months. The Post titles are shown below. Type them into Google or Bing and tell me what you see.

Boarding School A Harry Potter Experience

Christmastime In Calcutta In The 1950s

Growing Up Anglo Indian In Calcutta

Childhood Memories Of Calcutta

I'd love to hear your response as I have some questions to ask you based on my ranking experience.

Cheers.

Edwin

Hi, Edwin

You’ve ranked very well on page one of Google for all these articles!

I was going to do something similar and bought the domain MyItalianWorld dot com, thinking I would easily rank on page one of Google for very low competition keywords.

My concern was that traffic would also be very low.

What are your monthly page views like for that site?

BTW, I left you a comment on your Harry Potter Experience article.

You are a great storyteller! 👍😎

Frank 🎸

Hi Frank,

Thanks for letting me know you left a comment. I had to go to my dashboard and approve it. I did that and added a brief response.

Let me give you the page view results for the past 7 days and you be the judge. take into account that I have had no new posts since August 2022.

Page views 84 with a CTR of 9.5%. So not high at all.

I have a long-term monetizing strategy after I have about 100 posts. It is to use this as a travel niche with an emphasis on helping my readers explore the off-the-beaten track.

My topic spreadsheet is huge where I have grouped the topics using several categories like family, my travels, countries, education, careers, and much more. No chance of running out of topics to write about.

Eventually, I will write travel blog posts on the countries I write about. At that time I will edit related story posts with internal links to the new travel blog posts. On these, I will add affiliate links to help my readers with their travel plans if they so choose to visit these places.

I want to go further and build personal connections with people to find out what they are interested in and provide tips that could help them. I have already got responses from non-WA visitors.

This website is a fun one for me and I am not expecting it to generate significant income. I'm going to enjoy sharing stories and the picture I have taken. Sadly I didn't take many pictures until I moved to the US. Until then I will use what I can find online where I don't have to pay royalties.

I found it interesting that you also had considered creating a similar autobiographical website. Others have done this so this is a popular genre.

Glad to hear you also enjoy train rides. So does my. wife. I took my longest train ride when I emigrated to Canada. I purchased a one-month unlimited train travel pass and used it to travel coast to coast and back visiting several cities. Since funds were scarce, I stayed in Youth Hostels and the Y.

Canada gave allowed me to move there with no job. I went broke and managed to survive. That will be the topic of one of my stories.

Can I ask you for advice? Is there any merit in writing this blog chronologically? Or would it add more interest if I wrote stories that jump around the years?

Thanks for the interchange on this Frank.

Edwin

Hi, Edwin

I think that’s excellent traffic, considering that you only have four posts on your website and you’re not publishing consistently.

I recommend you publish a minimum of one post a month or Google will eventually start ignoring your site and and may even begin de-indexing your posts.

One article a week would be better. I only have time to write an average of one article a week (sometimes two) on my guitar site and it is doing pretty well. I have less than 160 posts and it gets about 1,000 page views a day.

I doubt I’ll ever have time to build the autobiographical site. I asked my sister if she would write the stories since she remembers them better than I do.

I offered to do all the technical stuff and give her 70% of the profits but she is way too busy having fun. 😎

I would say that if you were writing a book then a chronological narrative would be the way to go. However, with individual articles on a website and good organization with categories, etc., a random temporal order would be a fine publishing strategy.

You’re a great writer and you have lots of excellent adventures, so I think you’ll be very successful! 👍😎

Rock On 🤘
Frank 🎸

Thanks for the tip. Once I complete my India posts, with only a few left, I shall segue to something more recent. And I like the one-post-a-month approach. With the PPC project, I think that will work out fine.

I appreciate your comments about my story writing.

Cheers.

Edwin

You Rock, Edwin! 🤘

Keep going! 😎

Frank 🎸

Hello Joe,

I love your message. See you in Vegas!

Cheers.

Edwin

Hi Rachele,

You got that right. Thanks for your supportive comments.

All the best to you too.

Edwin

Hi Simone,

You got it. Keeping the momentum going is key. Thanks for commenting.

All the best to you.

Edwin

You sound so exciting about thos new direction

Ha ha, you noticed!

Or course!
Quite contagious

Way to go Maria! Glad we’re in this together. Thanks for commenting.

Edwin

Always a pleasure Edwin!

Cheers,
Maria 🌹