Going for Google Gold - Week 14

1.     Although I am obviously not well versed in how to truly strategize for search engine optimaztion, one of the main things I though to consider was making sure to include a description of my product in every post.  This way, people could immediately determine what it was I was talking about, rather than have to search through older posts just to get a background to be able to understand later ones.  Other than that, there were not many activities I really considered, just because my concept wasn’t really something I felt confident enough in, as it was really just a class activity. 

2.     I think my main key words were: Blog, Jon Dasher, Entrepreneur, exhaust system, car performance, modification, variable-exhaust, and air intake.  I wouldn’t say I necessarily chose these words, but they were the words that ended up appearing most often because they were the subject matter of each and every blog post.  My keywords did change about a third of the way through the semester, just because I changed my business concept, which I think was a very smart decision.  Otherwise I would have never been able to complete many of the activities that came later. 

3.     I did not really promote my blog on social media for the same reason mentioned in one.  Although I think I learned a lot from this experience, I was not very confident in my business concept and did not really see it in a realistic sense.  I think if I had utilized social media, it would have been a great way to connect with people, as I know many people that would be interested in my entrepreneurial endeavors, mostly being family.

4.     My most viral post was the Free Money exercise we did in week 7.  It got the most page views by far, almost 35.  I think it got the most just because there weren’t many people who actually did the exercise, and I also believe it is something that attracts views just by its title.  Almost anyone can connect with this activity and it is cool to see how people respond to situations such as these. 

5.     When I included my name in the keywords, I came up on the first page out of the 102,000 results, but when I did not include that, my blog didn’t come up untile page 7 of 332,000.