I don’t even know what it is called… All I know is that when I set up Google Search Console for my other website (copytestprove.com) I found out that only a few people visit each page. While my main goal of that page is not to collect email address to sell to potential customers (which is what a lot of websites seem to want to do), I do want eyes-on, people to share the articles and ideally contribute to the content.
After spending much of August down the Google rabbit hole of tips and tricks to optimize, and facing a lot of the results being marketed to (buy my product and I’ll tell you how you can sell more of your product to others!), I’ve parsed down a few of the things that have had more instructional content than marketing content.
I am still a newbie at website design, etc, and have no claim to any knowledge of any of this. So follow along as day-by-day I make small and significant/insignificant changes to my other website. I am not affiliated with any of the links that I will share here and I don’t make any money off of your click-throughs.
If anyone has any other tips and tricks that will help my other website gain traction, I’d really appreciate it. Contact me here: peoplegettingafterit at gmail dot com
Now on with the day-by-day updates:
- September 1 – Reviewed the points listed here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/start-a-wordpress-blog/ just to make sure I was starting with a solid base.
- September 2 – Mentioned in the above article was a plugin called AIOSEO or All In One SEO, so I added that to website. Will have to learn more about it later.
- September 3 – Someone noticed that my website had no social media links, so I followed the points on this page: https://www.kadencewp.com/help-center/docs/kadence-theme/social-media-icons-in-the-header/ since I use the kadence theme for my site.
- September 4 – Things didn’t go as easy and my connectivity was spotty (I’m based in Africa, see) but hey, it got done.
- September 5 – Today I installed this plugin: https://www.addtoany.com/buttons/ because apparently the above was to install a link to my social media platforms instead of people sharing the article on their social media.
- September 6 – I read this review of AIOSEO, and had to read very slowly because there’s a whole new vocabulary in there: https://www.wpbeginner.com/solutions/all-in-one-seo/
- September 7 – I have made adjustments to the website following some of the pointers in the above article
- September 8 – Only got through about halfway in this article, just following the steps provided: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wordpress-seo/
- September 9 – Still working through the above article. Electricity is non-existent today and my laptop ran out of battery.
- September 10 – Finally finished going through all those points in the article above.
- September 11 – Day off in remembrance of people all over the world suffering from one life-changing event…
- September 12 – Back at it. Today’s article is here and I only go through point one: https://aioseo.com/homepage-seo-tips/
- September 13 – Skimmed through the next three points.
- September 14 – Struggled through point five trying to locate the places where changes should be made. I didn’t struggle so much about the locations, just the how-to-go-about-it in the kadence theme.
- September 15 – Same issue with point six. And just think, this is only optimizing the homepage… Sigh, one must crawl before one can walk before one can run…
- September 16 – Finally finished this one article. Of course, there are other linking articles because I still have a lot to learn, but we’ll work on that another day.
- September 17 – Read through this article: https://www.straycurls.com/double-blog-traffic/. After reading the above articles, I can see what this author is doing. I don’t know why Pinterest doesn’t work in Nigeria, but a lot of things don’t yet. Oh well…
- September 18 – Read through this article: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-schema-markup-in-wordpress-and-woocommerce/. I don’t use WooCommerce so the last half of the article was a little irrelevant, but it was interesting to read how businesses show up on Google Maps and Search.
- September 19 – Got caught down the rabbit hole of clicking recommended articles from straycurls.com before realizing that it had no actionable points, which is the focus of going through article this month.
- September 20 – Looked through this: https://aioseo.com/get-rich-snippets-using-schema/ but can’t afford it at this moment.
- September 21 – This looks like it’s a doozy: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/blog-seo-tips-optimize-your-blog-posts-for-seo/
- September 22 – Seems like I’m checking each article already posted and going over each point for every single one. I may just make this next month’s challenge…
- September 23 – Very interesting and something to look into for each and every one of the articles already posted. https://ahrefs.com/blog/keyword-research/
- September 24 – This one seemed to be just a review from other articles I’ve already read so far: https://aioseo.com/seo-for-startups/
- September 25 – WOW! Optimizing images for better search results! Who wouldda thunk…? https://aioseo.com/how-to-write-alt-text-for-images-for-seo-3-easy-tips/
- September 26 – This was all very interesting, until the author told me to sign up for OpenAI… https://aioseo.com/how-to-use-a-meta-description-generator-in-wordpress/ Nothing against those who use it, but I’m not totally comfortable with it in the same way as that DNA testing kit…forgot what it was called.
- September 27 – Read this article https://aioseo.com/how-to-implement-structured-data-in-wordpress/ but am still a little confused as to how this is relevant for me and my website…
- September 28 – Read this article and will have to incorporate it into my opt-in forms: https://kit.com/resources/blog/opt-in-form
- September 29 – Signed up for being an affiliate with Kit.com because reasons…
- September 30 – Looking back over this month of learning and changing stuff on the website, I see there’s still a long away to go to make it more visible and there’s lots to learn on the social media promotions side of things, but hey…
