Traffic from February to July 2021

byStephenThiam

1.1K followers

3 years ago

Three posts per week.

Started 1st January 2021, consistently posting on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Never failed.

• Post type - Standard product review.
• Post content - Best Seller Product at least have 10 reviews with rating above 3.5.
• Use Fixed Headling - Introduction (H2), About Seller (H3), About Product (H3), Main features of product (H4), Specification (H4), Product Image 650x400 (H4), PROs of product (H4), CONs of product (H4), Overall ratings of product (H3), View YouTube Videos (H4), Conclusion (H2)
• Once content is ready, switch admin to author for new post. Set all images from admin to author and attach image to new post.
• Go to Google Search Console, past the new post link for URL Inspection. If GSC give any error, immediate correct it for re-inspection. If new post is valid with no error, request for indexing.
• Send new post for comment in the WA.
• Wait for Google ranking in 1 to 3 days. Use Jaxxy, Google Search or Whatsmyserp.
• If failed to ranking, read the content many times, choose revise post title or post content, and re-submit for URL inspection by GSC. If ranking, job done. If not, dump the post is better than pull down your website ranking.

Improve website design:

• Reduce post categories from 10 to 3. How? Combine similar categories into 1, Those categories cannot combine, use tags as categories.
• Before improving, each post, I have one or two tags only. Now I have six to seven tags for each post. Make sure every tag can collect at least 2 posts before included it. Once each tag has more than 20 posts, our tag get better ranking.
• Remove non-productive plugin from 8 to 5 - AIOSEO, Theme Pro, Optimizer plugin, Asset Clean Up, WP Compress Pro pay $9/month.
• Remove all banners in Sidebar.
• Keep Footer clean.

Improve Core Web Vitals score:

• Optimizer plugin - use only minfy and cache section. I use WP optimizer. How? Get error link from page speed test for refer or remove. Other setting is fixed after trial and error test.
• WP Compress Pro - use for compress image, lazy, cdn, 2nd gen. How? easy to use, almost auto and immediate result from page speed test.
• Asset Clean Up - use for remove unused files from WP, Theme and Plugins. Also set preload to improve website loading speed. How? Switch to test mode before doing trial and error test, so that Google not catch the breaking website. First is the Home Page setting and Second is Post Page setting.
• Preload Key Request in Asset Clean Up plugin - main.css, style.css, ui.js, local or Goole font file, and background image.

Google Analytics Trend:

• First dropping caused by page breaking due to changing Assest Clean Up setting without switching to the test mode.
• Second dropping Core Web Vitals failed for more than 10 days without taking correct actions due to not checking every day.

Conclusion:

• Consistence content posting helps increase traffic.
• Good ranking is a MUST for increase traffic.
• LCP keeps below 2.5s in the page speed test increase traffic.
• Increase number of post in each tag increase traffic.
• keep Page speed test score above 95 increase traffic.