Google Gold-Dillon Dunn

1) A discussion of your general approach and strategy to search engine optimiation (SEO). What were some of the activities you did for each blog post to pursue SEO? 

 For each blog post I labeled my blog with the week number (which was required.) For some of my earlier blog posts I had tried to label them with a phrase such as entrepreneur or entrepreneurship.

2) What were your keywords. How did you select those keywords? Did you change or refine your keywords through the semester?

 I labeled my blog with the week number, and I also had labeled my blog posts with
entrepreneur or entrepreneurship in my earlier posts.

3) How did you use social media to enhance your SEO efforts? What your your surprises or general impression of using social media to improve your blog's profile? Was social media generally receptive of your blog, or did it get ignored?

 After some of my blog posts I would share to google+, but with no spike in traffic I did take it off my google+ page.

4) What was your most "viral" post? In other words, which post obtained the most traffic? Why do you think?

 My identifying local opportunities post my my most "viral" post. I think it was the number one post because I had links to other news articles in my post.

5) Finally, did you make it to the first page of Google results for your keywords? If not, what page of results did you make it to? 

I was unable to locate my blog through just the keyword, but if I typed in my keywords plus my first and last name I was the first to pop up on the search!