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A friend of mine emailed this morning asking why the blog I told her to set-up for her company isn’t doing very well. She is frustrated because she is writing good posts but her Page Rank score is still stuck on 0.
I post my advice here for her and for others….
PR is complicated, sure time is a factor, but so are a number of other things. You’re best off looking at analytics and looking at individual hits for the time being (next 6 months).
You need to start looking at the traffic in more detail, did you ever install any analytics? Like we suggested…
To make you feel better: PickupPal.com has a page rank of 5 (very high) and that took 8 months and a lot of hard work and budget. Skyrocket has a lower PR, but we still get a considerable amount of traffic.
There is a lot more you can do; should be doing; and paying us to help you do. The following is listed in order of priority:
- Install and use analytics (WordPress Stats, Google Analytics or NetInsight)
- Be more open with your company’s content (you haven’t really done this yet…)
- Add something to the Blogosphere that isn’t already out their
- Give something valuable away for free
- Write posts every single day
- Your WordPress account could do with being tuned and a number of plugins need to be installed that will help the user experience and your SEO ranking (we can help with this)
- Design a WordPress theme that is in tune with your companies brand (we can help with that)
- There are many styles of post that can be more attractive to readers. A classic one is the list post, or “10 best ways to get a job”. Something about a numbered bullet list of advice stuff seems to work. You’ve probably seen similar posts on other blogs: “10 best Firefox plugins”, “100 best WordPress themes”. These types of posts do perform better than the average.
Does that help, Emma?
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There is so much potential for the iPhone to be a totally mobile blogging tool, but, unfortunately, it fails.
The main issue as I see it is transferring content between apps. To blog successfully you need the content you create to be flexible. None of the iPhone features are intergrated enough to allow this. If you create content with Notes, Mail or even the WordPress app you can’t share, combine or transfer this material. It is locked into the application. And if you want to blog about another site, you have to hand type the whole url into the blog post.
Cut and paste would go a long way to sovlving this, but so would an RSS reader that allows one to ‘publish to blog’. NewsGator fails in this respect and one can only hope that David Watanabe’s Newsfire for iPhone will fix this.
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More good advice from Google, this time on blogging and the importance of.
Google owes a lot to blogs, one could argue that the prevalence of blogs has enriched all search engine search results for the better. Blogs are more search-engine friendly than traditional websites and because the blogosphere is so massive (77 million uniques in the US last year) they cover almost every subject under the sun. If Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful then blogs have a gone a long way to helping them achieve that goal!
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- Build a blog.
- Write engaging articles about yourself or your business every day.
- Be open, candid and generous with your content.
- Plug said blog into every social syndication option out there (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.).
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