Preliminary Website Analysis

Kaju (jetrbby80316) wrote an interesting article about the Google Core Update and how it may affect our rankings on the Google Search Engine. Others in the past few months have written about this hence it was not unusual for Kaju to do so.

However, he had a different angle on it. His conclusion was that this new update placed small MMO sites at a disadvantage specifically in Google. He discovered that none of his articles now ranked on the first page in Google. You can read his article via the following WA link:

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/jetrbby80316/blog/google-core-update-what-exactly-is-it

This got me thinking about the results of my two websites. Hence, I did a check up using the Jaaxy Site Rank test as well as Google Search Console to see the status of all my articles. Here is my report that I wanted to share via a Blog.

Website #1 - Started In January 2019

Right after I joined Wealthy Affiliate, I started a website based on my selected niche in the Legal Services Field. The Front Page is shown below:

After writing 24 articles as part of my Online Entrepreneur Certification training, I changed directions. Kyle had invited me to participate in the Super Affiliate Challenge. Since I felt that was quite an honor, I accepted. That meant my focus had to change from my legal to the MMO niche. More specifically, to invite prospects to join Wealthy Affiliate. I created a second Website for that purpose that I shall go into later.

For now, I want to focus on the results for this website. The article shown on the home page is pinned. I made sure that all my 24 articles were indexed in Google and also mobile friendly. I was mortified to find out one of my posts from February 2019 was not indexed. I used Search Console to fix that immediately.

11 out of my 24 articles appeared on the first page of at least one Google. Bing or Yahoo. Most appeared on Bing (9), with Yahoo a close second (8) and Google a distant third (2). However, the two that appeared on Google were on the first position of Page 1. Total number of 1st position rankings on all search engines was 10.

One of my articles was fortunate enough to have the first position on all three. Let's see how these results compares to my MMO website, designed to promote Wealthy Affiliate.

Website #2 - Started in March 2019

This was a result of working on the Super Affiliate Challenge. The front page is shown below:

Note that I took the photos for the header in both my websites. In this website I decided to leave the Home page as my Blog Roll. Hence, the front page article shown will keep changing as I write new ones. I have created a menu system to help readers find relevant articles under specific categories.

Three monthly periods have passed since the SAC began. In each period we were tasked to write at least 12 articles. That is what I did so this website has 36 in total. I verified that all of them were indexed in Google as well as being mobile friendly.

Here are the ranking results summary from Jaaxy. 10 ranked on the 1st page of at least one of the three search engines, Google (4), Bing (6) and Yahoo (8). Total number of 1st position rankings on all search engines was 13, 4 being on Google.

Discussion

The question I have is how do I deduce in what manner all this information can help me in SEO and thereby increasing traffic?

I have no idea if the results I got were reasonable. If anyone reading this can let me know I'd much appreciate it. Kyle has said it is not unusual for a post not to rank at all. I can understand that.

However, based on my total number of articles are my 1st page rankings reasonable? And are the number of articles at the #1 slot reasonable too?

It appears that less than 50% of my articles have ranked on the first page in either of my websites, niche or MMO. Since they are all indexed in Google, I expect they must rank somewhere. Since I do not have a paid version of Jaaxy I cannot use this tool to get my answer.

I tried using Google Analytics and Search Console to find this answer, but failed to do so. If anyone knows how to use these tools to get rankings please let me know. Or if there is a lesson that provides the answer please let me know too. I have searched on the WA site and was only able to find lessons that teach how to use keywords to provide better rankings.

Referring to Kaju's concern about not getting any ranks on the first page of Google, it appears that I did get a few. Not as many as Bing and Yahoo, but it seems more than he did. What does this mean? Am I not as effected by the Core changes in Google like he was? This is all a mystery to me.

Conclusion

Having done this analysis, I am not going to worry about the results for the moment. Instead, I shall focus on writing more articles and learn how to use them on my social media sites without getting them taken down for violating rules.