I have slacked off a bit this month, producing nowhere near the amount of content (only 4 posts) compared with 14 posts published last month. Not surprisingly, then, I have seen a reduction in users and page views, so content really does drive traffic volumes, who would have thought that? Even though I have been poor on the content front, I did not leave my blog to just sit there without doing anything to optimise my blog or SEO performance metrics.
Website directories
I have continued to look into ways of increasing organic search results by improving my SEO score and by adding my site to a number of directories, such as blogcatalog.com. Whilst carrying out my research, I found an article by Harsh Agrawal, who wrote a great article on how to share your website/blog on a number of directories, such as IMT Website Submitter – which submits your website to 392 hand-picked places for FREE!
Content highlights
Another highlight of the month was producing my favourite piece of content to date, a view on smartphone usage and Digital Culture and how addictive it has become, the new sugar as it were. I also added a ping list to my site, so whenever I update content on my site, a ping request is sent to all ping services, which are listed in the ping update services section of your WordPress site. This list of ping services can be found on Harsh Agrawal’s site www.Shoutmeloud.com.
Some features included in my blog:
- Implemented the plug-in Autoptmize that helped further optimise my site, with 12% of my content cached so far
- Installed a plug-in to compress images called Compress JPEG & PNG images, see below for savings so far:
- Looked at ways to optimise blog performance by adding new ping services and plug-ins; Autoptimize and Compress JPEG & PNG images
- Added my blog to a number of directories: blogcatalog.com, pinterest.com and IMT Website submitter.
- Traffic for my site has taken a bit of a dip since September, see the comparison graphs below:
How have you managed to get SEO improvements?
I find Google+ groups are great for finding engaged readers.
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Thanks Suzanne, appreciate the comments. When i publish content on my blog i make sure it goes to my livingthetech.com account on Google + as well.