Essential Housekeeping for my blog long overdue

byTheCatherine

14.1K followers

1 week ago

I have my first blog in the make money online niche, which was created exclusively to promote WA. it is four months old and has only twenty four posts

I have been hugely discouraged with this blog as I have had the white screen of death for weeks. However, Carson has been working with me to create a test site and find out what is wrong. By the end of today I should have my answer.

Since Carson Gave Me a Kick up the Backside I decided to give myself one.

I went through every one of the posts and made sure they were all identical in terms of formatting.

MY TASKS

1. The all start and finish with a paragraph that has a colored background (Thank you Partha)
2. There is a TOC
3. There is one section with columns
4. There is a Quote
5. 24 posts entered into Jaazy to track my keywords twice a week. 7 are recognised by Google, the highest on page 3, 4 by Bing the highest on page 2, and I cant remember where that are on Yahou because I don't care.
6. I checked that everyone has a green tick for both SEO and readability. They all had great SEO I don't publish unless they do, but I am often lax on readability. I have recently purchased Yoast SEO partly because I have always used Yoast, when I started, there were no alternatives. This has the advantage of showing me what is wrong and where in the post. Another advantage of Yoast premium is they make an automatic update if you change a permalink.
7. Check that they all had an image gallery
8. They all have a testimonial included
9. They all had a clear call to action
10. They all have an image linking to WA
11. Share on Social Media
12. Add to linkedin
13. Check Site Kit that they are all indexed

Readability was my biggest fault

My personal three biggest faults is one of the formatting's I loved this formatting and didn't want to change it, but I just added a h3 heading between the two sections. Another thing I often don't write in an active sense and in the past this has driven me bonkers. Thanks to AI I can now paste it into AI ans ask it to rewrite in a active tone. My third fault is I often only have about 24 percent of transition words. That is the bit that I most hate changing.

Now of course this is all done I have a definitive duplicate post so that in the future they will all be identical I hope that this will allow my reader's to know at a glance where things are in a post .

The results

24 posts with Great Seo

24 posts with great readability.

24 posts entered into Jaazy to track my keywords twice a week

13 post indexed

Happy bunny. it was a horrible job that has taken the best part of eight hours, but now I have put a check list into a page and left it a draft so as I go forward it will al be done before it is published