Six months at WA

byesteadman

1.1K followers

8 years ago

So, I made it to the six month mark and earned the badge.

Some highlights and not so "high"lights.

First, I'm still here and still going strong, in fact upgraded to Yearly Membership because I'll still be here a year from now. One of my two websites is growing in terms of content, I put the other one on hold because of a job that came up and took away much of my time. I wasn't creating enough content for one website, never mind two. That job is complete now, but I still think one website is enough for now.

Meanwhile, Amazon booted me because I went 180 days without sales. However, I reapplied and they approved me for another 180 days. The problem is they gave me a new account ID so I had to change all my Amazon affiliate links. This took time away from creating new content so my Google rank plummeted.

To try to regain and improve my page rankings on Google I changed to Yoast SEO from the all-in-one SEO pack that WordPress defaults to during website set-up. This is an amazing tool that helps you improve SEO and Readability with green-orange-red flags. It flags your pages in your dashboard and when you are in WP page edit mode it tells you how to get all green flags on your page. My SERPLAB rankings have been improving since modifying my pages with the Yoast SEO recommendations. I'll know in a couple of days if this improves traffic as well.

I never give up because I know that this effort will result in success.