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So, my niche is baseball history since 1869. Do I need to refine that like, maybe, a particular team's history? Such as New York Yankees history, Boston Red sox history, or Dod
I think that would be a good idea for your niche to add some history besides some people may find it intriguing. It shows more passion in addition to the content already present. Make a top 10, step outside of the box be creative but original. Get personal it makes a viewers experience more enjoyable.
Site is looking good is there a reason you haven't put it on its own domain name? I would follow the advice below and break down your team by team and decade by decade and stay the course but secure your own domain soon so you can rank higher in Google.
I like it - I would just actegorise each team so that it is easier to find for each fan... Sure is a lot to write about though...
It definitely is a lot to write about. The research itself involves massive amounts of time. But I do love it. 😁
Baseball History itself is massive, what would you promote Think about specific products and services so you don't overwhelm yourself with the amount of work that it will take to try and maintain.
The idea with a niche is to be specific so you can take a slice of the pie. Not to pursue an entire sport by throwing out a fishing line to catch a nibble here or there.
Find a segment, learn who is the most interested in that little section, then work on determining the exact customer profile so you can write posts with the correct language for that type of a person.
Figure out who they are and what issues they have so you can pitch the correct products/services to get them to come to your site and learn that you know what you are talking about so they will wind up taking your advice/suggestions seriously.
That's a pretty good niche, actually. Making different headings based on teams would be beneficial. Maybe break it down by decade maybe to make it easier to organize.
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So, my niche is baseball history since 1869. Do I need to refine that like, maybe, a particular team's history? Such as New York Yankees history, Boston Red sox history, or Dod
I think that would be a good idea for your niche to add some history besides some people may find it intriguing. It shows more passion in addition to the content already present. Make a top 10, step outside of the box be creative but original. Get personal it makes a viewers experience more enjoyable.
Site is looking good is there a reason you haven't put it on its own domain name? I would follow the advice below and break down your team by team and decade by decade and stay the course but secure your own domain soon so you can rank higher in Google.
I like it - I would just actegorise each team so that it is easier to find for each fan... Sure is a lot to write about though...
It definitely is a lot to write about. The research itself involves massive amounts of time. But I do love it. 😁
Baseball History itself is massive, what would you promote Think about specific products and services so you don't overwhelm yourself with the amount of work that it will take to try and maintain.
The idea with a niche is to be specific so you can take a slice of the pie. Not to pursue an entire sport by throwing out a fishing line to catch a nibble here or there.
Find a segment, learn who is the most interested in that little section, then work on determining the exact customer profile so you can write posts with the correct language for that type of a person.
Figure out who they are and what issues they have so you can pitch the correct products/services to get them to come to your site and learn that you know what you are talking about so they will wind up taking your advice/suggestions seriously.
That's a pretty good niche, actually. Making different headings based on teams would be beneficial. Maybe break it down by decade maybe to make it easier to organize.
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I've noticed, while in the WordPress dashboard, that it's telling me to update PHP. I don't know anything about PHP. I know some plugins aren't compatible with the current vers
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I've noticed, while in the WordPress dashboard, that it's telling me to update PHP. I don't know anything about PHP. I know some plugins aren't compatible with the current vers
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An Affiliate Marketing trainging program I was a part of in the past said that bolding our keywords would help with rankings in Google. I'm wondering if that actually helps. It
It's kind of a useless SEO tactic. MAYBE it can help in some situations, but not all the time, and it looks weird to a reader. You can experiment and see if it works for some of your articles, but I wouldn't make it a rule, and it won't make or break a page ranking.
Howdy Nathaniell. That's what I thought. As a blog reader, it would seem to be more of a distraction and make me leave the page. Also, even to the average reader, it looks like some kind of blatant tactic to get me to pay attention to specific words or phrases. Kind of like being straight up sold to, which nobody likes.
I don't think its useful and it's kind of annoying for your audience. Bold is likely not important to an algorithm like Google. If you readers are happy, Google is happier than any bolding of keywords.
I've seen blogs do this and it's annoying to me as a reader. And big websites I follow don't do this at all. I follow their example.
I will bold important phrases for my readers though!
Makes sense. As a blog reader, I find it not only annoying but a distraction from the content. Maybe it worked back then (around 2016-2017) but not now.
I just read on the Yoast blog yesterday afternoon how it's doubtful that it even ever worked. But they say it doesn't work now anyway.
Please don't do that:
Google hate all letters bold!
Only the first letter is ok like that:
I Like You!
not ok:
I LIKE YOU!
I'm agree with Paul, I'm don't think it helps with ranking. Although, I could be wrong. I mean the titles are bolded and your keywords are in the titles and or subheadings of your post.
So, that along with quality content should be the SEO ranking factor. I read on MOZ that the bolding is an old tactic.
Anyhow, they did say it helps with user experience as long as the bolding is not over used. I hope this helps...
Hello! That is a great question. I am not sure if that is old hat SEO or not. I used to hear the same.
I will say that Google looks at the appearance, readability, and flow of our content.
So when creating Content I do like to Bold certain words that I would like to emphasize to the reader NOT to Google. But Google is judging our content for the Readers. So they may like the Bolding for that reason.
But I doubt that they see the bolding of keywords and it makes a difference. Except maybe to your point as a reader. When it becomes annoying. They may dock us for it.
What I do is. When commenting on other Blogs here at WA whether in Site Comments or when I see one of the Big Earners post something.
I look at their writing styles. I do see them use Bold type a good bit. So that helps me in becoming a better Content Writer. Looking at what Big websites and others here at WA.
I may be worng, but I don't thnk so..
You need to have them in your title and witihn the first paragraph.
Some also like to have them in at least one heading - I usually sneak a variation of them in at the end of the post as well.
Paul
Thanks for chiming in Paul. That's the same thing I was thinking. Things have changed since then, around 2016-2017. Maybe it was a big deal back then, but it's just annoying now.
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Does bolding keywords help with google rankings?
An Affiliate Marketing trainging program I was a part of in the past said that bolding our keywords would help with rankings in Google. I'm wondering if that actually helps. It
It's kind of a useless SEO tactic. MAYBE it can help in some situations, but not all the time, and it looks weird to a reader. You can experiment and see if it works for some of your articles, but I wouldn't make it a rule, and it won't make or break a page ranking.
Howdy Nathaniell. That's what I thought. As a blog reader, it would seem to be more of a distraction and make me leave the page. Also, even to the average reader, it looks like some kind of blatant tactic to get me to pay attention to specific words or phrases. Kind of like being straight up sold to, which nobody likes.
I don't think its useful and it's kind of annoying for your audience. Bold is likely not important to an algorithm like Google. If you readers are happy, Google is happier than any bolding of keywords.
I've seen blogs do this and it's annoying to me as a reader. And big websites I follow don't do this at all. I follow their example.
I will bold important phrases for my readers though!
Makes sense. As a blog reader, I find it not only annoying but a distraction from the content. Maybe it worked back then (around 2016-2017) but not now.
I just read on the Yoast blog yesterday afternoon how it's doubtful that it even ever worked. But they say it doesn't work now anyway.
Please don't do that:
Google hate all letters bold!
Only the first letter is ok like that:
I Like You!
not ok:
I LIKE YOU!
I'm agree with Paul, I'm don't think it helps with ranking. Although, I could be wrong. I mean the titles are bolded and your keywords are in the titles and or subheadings of your post.
So, that along with quality content should be the SEO ranking factor. I read on MOZ that the bolding is an old tactic.
Anyhow, they did say it helps with user experience as long as the bolding is not over used. I hope this helps...
Hello! That is a great question. I am not sure if that is old hat SEO or not. I used to hear the same.
I will say that Google looks at the appearance, readability, and flow of our content.
So when creating Content I do like to Bold certain words that I would like to emphasize to the reader NOT to Google. But Google is judging our content for the Readers. So they may like the Bolding for that reason.
But I doubt that they see the bolding of keywords and it makes a difference. Except maybe to your point as a reader. When it becomes annoying. They may dock us for it.
What I do is. When commenting on other Blogs here at WA whether in Site Comments or when I see one of the Big Earners post something.
I look at their writing styles. I do see them use Bold type a good bit. So that helps me in becoming a better Content Writer. Looking at what Big websites and others here at WA.
I may be worng, but I don't thnk so..
You need to have them in your title and witihn the first paragraph.
Some also like to have them in at least one heading - I usually sneak a variation of them in at the end of the post as well.
Paul
Thanks for chiming in Paul. That's the same thing I was thinking. Things have changed since then, around 2016-2017. Maybe it was a big deal back then, but it's just annoying now.
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you could try that. I think that would be a really good idea