Its all about the PAGE RANK stupid!

Ok first off, I don't want to offend anyone, so I have to start off with the disclaimer. I am not calling you stupid, I am not calling anyone in your family stupid and of course I would never call your dog stupid. The stupid I am referring to is in reference to myself.

As some of the people that I have interacted with here at WA know, I have been messing around with website building for more than a few years. I suck/sucked at it. I would read tons of how tos, all abouts and watched 1.2million videos on website building. I didn't even know what a content management system (Wordpress, Joombla, Drupal) was until about 3 years ago. Before that I created my website by hand using classic html. No surprise, those sites didn't do well at all. After learning about CMS and using wordpress, I got all excited and transferred 2 of my sites over. After years of following these sites, no surprise, still no traffic.

At one point, I got excited because one day I figured out, I could research popular trends, see what popular keywords were getting thrown around and create some posts based on those keywords. Again, no surprise, I didn't get much, if any traffic. This was the start of my depression stage, after spending years working on my website, I absolutely had no idea how to bring in the traffic. I gave up for a while and dove into other things, even cancelled a website I had for over 10 years.

This brings me to the point where I found Wealthy Affiliate. I wasn't even looking for website knowledge or website building advice and tips, I was browsing through work at home ideas. Which eventually led me here.

I am still newbie, as I have been here for a little more than a month and I have almost finished the Certification Course 3. My website is coming along nicely and I have learned a ton of things that I had no idea about. The number one thing I have learned so far is that I did have the right idea about keywords and popular trends, I was just going after the wrong ones. I didn't realize at that time you don't stand a very high chance of competing with the first couple of pages of search results for top keywords/keyphrases that have estimated traffic of 100k and competition over 400. The zinger here is all about Kyles term "Low Hanging Fruit". Those are the keywords that have SOME estimated traffic and low competition. One you find some good ones using Jaaxy or the WA Keyword tool, I recommend verifying them with SERPS to make sure the estimated traffic is close. Then follow the Wealthy Affiliate guidelines about writing good content for those keywords.

Once you have a few posts under your belt, keep tabs on your posts and their performance. The number one tool I use is https://serps.com/tools/rank-checker/ to check the page rank of my posts. I recently found that 4 of my posts were not ranking at all thanks to this tool. I touched them up a bit, reworked the keywords, republished them and the next day they were ranked between 25 to 112. I didn't care at that point where they ranked, just as long as they did show in the results.

So basically it boils down to, if your page/post is not getting ranked for your keywords, you will NOT show up in search results at all and no one will ever find your webpage/post, and you will never get any real traffic.

My next adventure will be to understand ways of improving your page rank. The higher you rank, the better the chances of getting found and clicked on in the search results!

Thank for spending some time with me and listening to my chatty Kathy dialogue, its a bit long winded, but I felt it was an important topic that quite a few people are asking about!

Please let me know what you think in the comments below and of course, check out my website at https://believeyoucandle.com!

Thank you!

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