Check Point #1: Get 100 Daily Unique Visitors In Ten Days

September 25th, 2008 • 1 comment Uncategorized
Tags: hit counter, increase website traffic, keyword tool, link popularity, search engine optimization, search engine submission, seo, site promotion, submit url, traffic, visitors, web site optimization, web site traffic, Webmaster Tools, website traffic, wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, wordpress templates

Hi,

Let me go over the seo techniques that I’ve applied on this blog and give the results:

• Day - 1: I wrote my first post: Run SEO Run! and a second post about how I configured Wordpress. I changed my blog theme, installed Akismet and configured Wordpress to use permalinks.
• Day - 2: I installed StatCounter plugin and also Google Analytics tracker. I’ve noticed that Wordpress fails for some basic SEO steps like setting up a meta description and keywords. Although meta keywords aren’t as useful as once they are, I considered to provide some good keywords as well. I installed All In One SEO Pack Wordpress plugin and manually corrected the description and keywords of my previous posts. From that day to now, I manually add some popular keywords to every post using Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Lately in the same day I installed another plugin: Google Sitemap Generator. I also submitted my site to Google Webmaster Tools. A couple of days later I’ve noticed that Google bots had visited my site on this day. So it seems that if you like your site to be indexed as soon as possible submit a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.
• Day - 3: I submitted my sitemap to Live.com Webmaster Center and Yahoo! Site Explorer. Also to see the reactions on my blog, I claimed my blog on Technorati. I still got no visitors.
• Day - 4: I submitted my blog to StumbleUpon. A couple of hours later I got my first visitors from StumbleUpon! After a little happiness I decided to add some of my posts to Del.icio.us. After all it seems that StumbeUpon is the best source to draw traffic to your site quickly.
• Day - 5: I do some house cleaning and this has nothing to do with search engine optimization.
• Day - 6: Gladiator for the eleventh time. That day I noticed that RunSEORun has been added to Google Index. Also I got my first fav on StumbleUpon. It’s six now. If you liked my site why not give my a fav? Also at the same day I’ve created a dummy blog on new blogging platorm: OnSugar.com.
• Day - 7: I wrote a little article on image search optimization. Although I’ve used proper naming and proper images, I haven’t been added to image search. Still no results, still no visitors.
• Day -8: Another article on semantic coding. Since Wordpress uses semantic markups by default, I don’t need to worry. But are you sure you’re choosing correct markups?

This is the 10th day since I’ve opened my blog and I’ve got 91 unique visitors and 146 pageviews just for today. Not bad.