The efforts I have made with the SEO and the article wrting have been gaining traction in the nearly seven months I have been working at it. It can be hard word and I have had to learn a lot of things, such as the nitty gritty of getting links to my sites to have back links that bring in the traffic. I am pleased with the money I am spending on The Keyword Academy each month and I find the tools very useful. I have just also discovered Keyword Strategy which is another useful tool. The Keyword Strategy works mainly on the interlinking witin the site and other on site SEO things, but it can scan the whole web site over time.

The thing that you have to work as suggested by the Keyword Strategy works like a to do list also. It tells you things like a bunch of keyword that are not ranked at all on Google. You can make a new page for that keyword and then put a tick in the box to say it is done.  It als works the same with broken links. When it is scanning the web site it will assign web pages to keywords automatically and also you can do it manually. Then it will tell you that keywords in your list that are not on the web pages.

You have to put the keywords into the list first and it connects to the keyword tool at Google to get you some based on a seed keyword. Put in at least 3000 keywords and then start working with them. Making new posts, adding to posts already there, fixing broken links and checking the alerts on the Alerts tab.

Is it worth doing ?

I can tell you that in a few days of adjusting some of my pages to have more internal links within the web site and making new pages and also putting keywords in to the post where they are missing, there have been more visitors to my site. I will know more when I have been using the service for longer. So far I am pretty impressed and I will probably end up paying the money for the monthly subscription.

Using other free services and being social with it

I am still do the social networking thing with the sites where I will pick an article and push it out through Amplify. That sends it to a pile of places and I think it makes some sort of difference. I also use IMAutomator as another service that does something similar. I reckon what is needed is to have a plan for the week in which every day I write a certain number of words for articles, do a podcast on one day of the week, or a video, Another part of the day to work with the social part of the job. I have already started to time how long it takes me to write articles and I can do it very fast when using Dragon Dictate on the iPad. There is never any reason to be twiddling my thumbs and wondering what to do next. There is always something. I do wish I could have more time to do more video to put up on YouTube. Just because I like doing it.