So, I checked my keywords today and.
Some of you know that I've been struggling with getting my site dialed in because I had decided to move to what I thought would be a better URL, then I thought more...and more about it and decided to go with my initial gut instinct and move everything back to the original URL.
Because I'm fickle in that way, I did the moves manually to avoid a bunch of forwarding issues and be dedicated to only one URL.
During the process of moving back, I had reinstalled my theme and, wouldn't you know, that's exactly when Google crawled my site. My URL, as far as google was concerned, was full of Lorem Ipsum demo posts, had no unique content and no comments.
I finished my move and wrote a new article and waited. While waiting, I participated in WA community activities and watched a few more training videos ahead of where I actually am in training.
Two weeks later, still, none of my articles were properly index, so I decided that now was the time to submit my site map to google. A week later and a couple of my articles were indexed, but the demo articles were still showing. So now, I prompted Google to index my remaining articles (Oddly, there's no way to tell Google that articles are no longer on your website).
Three days ago, I noticed that ALL of my articles have indexed and all the demo articles are gone! I knew that I was now ready to continue building on this site, however, in "Site Content" here on WA, 3 of my articles were not indicating that they had been indexed. I just figured that was because they had not been indexed organically.
This morning, I noticed that Site Content is indicating all of my articles are indexed and I had read a rather motivating article about google rankings, so for the first time since my very first article was indexed (And didn't rank), I decided to check the rankings of my articles.
The first article that I checked ranked int eh middle of the third page. Alright. Considering the number of results for that particular search, I am okay with that and I see that there is something for me to improve.
The second search took me through 15 pages with no results. Bummer. This is discouraging. I think that article may need a lot more attention and a more unique title.
The third article, however, ranked number 1!
I'm jazzed about this, but I have questions as to whether this is successful.
To all of my experienced friends out there in WA land, should I be alarmed if my search is so unique that it not only yields a #1 result, but the #2 result is my website home page and two other results on the first page are articles on my site?
Most of the images shown for the image search are from my site as well.
My exact keyword search on Jaaxy Yielded the following results:
- AVG: 80
- Traffic: 14
- QSR: 5
- KQI: Great
- SEO: 93
In my understanding of the training, I got this right. I mean, I would have like the AVG to be a little higher, but the 14 traffic attracted me to use it anyway.
I'm going to mark this as a success post, but I'll be awaiting opinions from more experienced people to determine if I should be as happy as I am about the results.
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Great to see your accomplishments coming up so early, Intro! It's so encouraging to see that one of your posts ranked #1 in Google which is excellent. The keyword search result is superb and it's a ranking potential in the search. Congrats on this accomplishment!
Thank you! I loved the numbers and wanted to stay within the guidelines that Kyle set, but 14 is a great amount of "Low Hanging Fruit".
If I can replicate this kind of result for most of my posts, It shouldn't be long before I can realize my short term goal from this process.
Thank you for sharing, John!
And congratulations!
Your post reminds my to check the rankings on my blogs too. Over our exchange about the icons at Site Content I noticed that my two new blogs I posted days ago are still not indexed. Into the long post I implemented 10 pretty hot keywords.
There is some research for me to do!
Thank you for making me aware, John.
Have a great day!
Aloha, Jenna
It's a great idea to check, but to not let that take too much of your time. I had sworn myself away from checking before because I knew that I had damaged my site.
Refraining until I saw evidence of a recovery was probably the best thing I did to avoid feelings of disappointment.
Thank you, John. This is a good advice!
I need to finally recover from being sick and move on with my content!
Thank you for your encouragement, John!
Have a good day!
Aloha, Jenna
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Keep engineering your training! You appear to be moving steadily along proven tracks. Take on the necessary tools and knowledge at each stop. Work and rework until you have a well greased and fueled train. Go! Go! Go!
Thank you for the motivation!
Excellent timing, too! I think I'll grab some caffeine and come back!