Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 09/11/2009 - 12:00am
Written by: Elizabeth Houser
Google, in my opinion, has the ability to take over the online world. This, along with the charts, graphs, and numbers that many of their “applications” contain, has the power to intimidate me.
The company I chose is
Live Nation. With the slogan “One Nation Under Music”, this company’s main
focus is helping people find tickets to events ranging from comedy and sporting
events to concerts of all genres for all ages.
To optimize my blog, I first created a Google Analytics account. I liked this up with my WordPress blog. I also created a Squidoo account. At first, I had no idea how Squidoo worked. After messing around with the site for a while, I felt confident enough to create a lens. I made a lens about the top 5 women's snowboards of 2013 that I would most like to try out. I made sure that my title was optimized by using the phrase "women's snowboards" and the year 2013 for people searching for the most curren gear. In my introduction I also repeated my title keywords in singular and plural forms.
After commuting back and forth from State this semester,
winter driving has been a huge discussion topic in my household. It just so happens that
we also got a crazy amount of Lake Effect Snow this weekend, which worked
perfectly for photographing pictures for my blog! Like the one below I took
this morning.
I am still relatively new to the world of blogging, and
there’s a lot to learn. The next item on my plate is learning about search
engine optimization, or SEO for short.
There are only so many times you can be told that SEO is the
key to success… but I experienced it first-hand tonight. I’ve been working on
optimizing my blog since last week (picking out keywords such as "millennial" and "generation y" through the Google Keyword tool I mentioned in my blog post/assignment last week); I wanted to pick a topic that I could
actually write about.
When
I sat down to do this assignment, I was very confused. I came to it a
few different times hoping I would be able to understand it more clearly
with a clear head. With that being said, I did a lot of Googling and
researching on my own about SEO. I did use the assigned readings and
videos as a reference, but I learned a lot on my own.