Do You Have Googleitis? Google Should Not Be Your God!
We are taught here that Google Rankings are God. Well, they are important. But we can get distracted by focusing only on that. It is much better, in my worthless opinion, to focus on presenting solutions to problems which will attract readers to your website because they get the straight poop there.
Writing an article, for example, and seeing it rank high at Google can make us feel great. But if the ranking drops as Google moves its focus as your competition come in to knock you around a bit, that is not a disaster.
You have to keep presenting solutions to problems. It takes time to read emails, check rankings, hang out on Chat and all that. It can be time wasted because it takes you away from your audience. You are like a comedian on the stage whose mind goes blank. How long do you think his or her audience will sit there waiting for the next one liner?
About two minutes.
If you stay focused on your audience, the folks in your niche, they will be watching for your next solution to a problem they are dealing with. When that happens, you will be successful.
Now, don't get discouraged. Two of our members blogged faithfully for a year with few sales. But they hung in there and suddenly things began to happen. The site became successful and they didn't have to blog quite so often. The traffic was there.
You need to rank on the search engines but if you are so focused on that so you are not tending to business, what have you gained?
Don't let anything distract from your primary purpose which is to present solutions to problems to your readers frequently.
Okay! I'll shut up!
John
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Good advice John. I've been playing around with Google Analytics recently, it took a while for the penny to drop then I realised that they were just numbers on a screen. Meaningless numbers.
They will be important numbers at some point sure, a 1% drop in figures will mean a LOT of money to a major player but to you and me? Waste of time worrying about it. Just spend time on your sites, not on the rest of the stuff, and it will be time well spent.
I remember very early on in my time at WA somebody suggested you should clear your inbox and even consign everything unnecessary to the spam box except for WA. It was very good advice because it helps us focus on what we need to focus on. Take the same approach with your websites and sooner or later it will begin to pay dividends. The time you spend on your site it THE most important consideration you need to have if you are going to be successful.
I've been well, and working on my content, but not on WA until a couple of weeks ago. I just wrote a blog about what I've been doing these last months, in fact! :0)
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/zaragozana/blog/7-working-in-the-background
Thank for the information, very true google in not our God, but we all care about, also more important than google is audience, they are the one make us more happy is getting money.
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That is such great advice! And liberating in a way. It's the method I tend to follow. Thank you, John.
You are welcome!