Comments on: Off-topic Reading

By: paulette

paulette — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:59:31 +0000

In my opinion the one argued with you is right. Maybe the logic of it is putting on keywords limit the search to your keywords only.

By: Kyle James

Kyle James — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:23:46 +0000

Ah I got you now. Yeah I pulled off the “| %blogname%” a while back. I think you should definitely write a follow-up post in a month from now, cause you should have a lot larger sample size at that point. I don’t have any data proven it’s better either, but I hate seeing that junk when I look at search results or on Social Bookmarking sites… Maybe it’s good branding strategy, but from that respect nobody cares.

Thanks for the additional explanation.

By: Collin LaHay

Collin LaHay — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:14:54 +0000

The test was for the html title’s of my blog post. “Off-topic Reading | Make Money Blogging” or just “Off-topic Reading” like it is now.

My SE traffic has been 2-10% for the last three months. It was 13-16% on the four days where I did not even post. With the way Google updates indexed pages, it will hopefully be an additional 3% when all of my pages that Google indexed are with the new titles.

Like I said, its not exact but in my personal experience it went up. Feel free to try the opposite if you disagree.

By: Kyle James

Kyle James — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:58:09 +0000

I’m a little confused about what you tested here? Your titles with keywords turned off or on? It is a little vague.

My argument no matter what your testing, would be that your sample size is very small and isn’t credible.

Over time your blog is naturally going to grow as traffic, inbound links, bot crawls, RSS subscriptions, etc. continue to increase YOU SHOULD EXPECT a slight increase like this. Besides I wouldn’t consider 3% a significant increase to warrant saying your study was a success either.

You could probably take a picture of someone taking a shit and post it on your site and see your traffic increase over the short term. Ok I take that example back, that would significantly increase your traffic, because with the way the internet is it would probably go viral!

Can you tell I’m taking a statistics class right now?

By: Breakaway

Breakaway — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:13:03 +0000

I used a program that analyzes the pages in the top 10 for a keyword and analyzes my page, and that was one of the tips they had was to not have it in every post title. That helped me to not over-saturate my page with the keywords.

Write relevant posts about your keyword, and you can naturally slip your keyword into a post, and that will help to improve your relevancy in the search engines.

By: Steffan

Steffan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:32:19 +0000

Using your blog as a test case and documenting the results was really useful. Thanks again for another valuable post that’ll change my blogging strategy. You’d think that keeping your title there would GIVE you relevancy because keyword density is so important, but apparently not. Huh.

Thanks for this tip. Another gem from Mixed Market Arts.