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Misunderstanding Everything? I Need A Spotter

Windflower

Published on July 13, 2018

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Misunderstanding Everything? I Need A Spotter

I Need A Spotter

See that guy in the picture? He's a spotter. He's there to observe and assist, to make sure that the woman who is working with the weights doesn't hurt herself. She may think that she's doing everything correctly, but he's there, just in case something goes wrong, to help her and put her back on track.

Am I Misunderstanding?

I am nearing the end of my fourth month, working on my blog. As you can see, I started it on March 21.

I have yet to rank on Google for any of my posts, so I decided to go back and take a look at the training. Maybe I'm misunderstanding everything? Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Online Entrepreneur Certification - Level 2 : Lesson 3 of 10

I looked at the keyword magic formula that Kyle has in the training, and I found that I was slightly misunderstanding it, but not in a way that made much difference. Here is the formula:

Here is a list of all of the keywords that I have used in my posts. All of the keywords with the red tick marks indicated that those keywords match the "winning" criteria. There are a couple of blue marks indicating that they are very close. So I think I'm doing pretty well with my keywords. Sometimes I write a tutorial, and I have a hard time finding the right long-tail key word that matches it, but those are just the breaks. I'm not going to structure my content around the keywords. . . I have to find keywords that match the content. Otherwise, my content is not relevant or helpful, especially when my site is really heavy on the tutorials.

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What else am I misunderstanding?

I should be seeing at least one of my posts ranking very very soon, right? I'm at the end of month 4. I have a respectable number of posts, that are high quality. I'm using keywords correctly. So what's going on? Then I ran across this . . .

Online Entrepreneur Certification - Level 2 : Lesson 7 of 10

Take a look at this screen shot from the training (which is WAAAAAY out of date, btw)

The Jaaxy results are the same as what Google reports, in Kyle's example. Now look at mine. I chose one of my keywords, which has a QSR of 88.

When put the same search string into Google, the results are. . . what??

I'm definitely misunderstanding something here.

So Where Am I??

  • I'm at the end of my 4th month, heading into the 5th month of my blog.
  • I have not ranked on Google yet for any of my posts.
  • I think I'm doing a pretty good job picking keywords for my posts, but I think I may be misunderstanding some things about Jaaxy.

Could Someone Spot Me, Please?

I could use some advice from someone who has been where I currently am.

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