Monetize Your Site

I have had two recent experiences that point out the value of WordPress in getting things indexed in Google.

I put up a research blog on sub-domain space. While I have owned the domain name for a couple of years, the sub-domain was created specifically for the WordPress installation. From the time that the sub-domain space was created until I was posting to the blog was no more than a couple of hours.

The idea with the blog is to go to Google trends and pick a current hot topic and produce a post. One of the very first posts that I made was indexed and I saw traffic from an international Google site, that turned out to be from Poland, in less than 24 hours. I was checking the traffic log to see if there was bot activity on the space when I saw the referrer link to the Google search. I thought that it was amazing and told a couple of people about the experience, as well as making a blog post on another blog.

I have just been snooping in the traffic logs again. This one comes from a different blog that I have had in operation for a few months. I was checking around Ezine Articles site today. I noticed an article using the same keyword that had brought traffic to the new blog. The article was a good fit for my other blog, on topic and all. I published the article. I logged in to the blog at 9:46 AM to post the article. At 12:25 Google returned search results with my post in the number 4 position and the Ezine original article in the number 6 position. Less than two hours and my reprint of the article was ranked higher than the original.

Looking at the results it is apparent that the reason the reprinted article returned higher than the original was because I had the exact search term as one of the tags for the article. The title and every word in the article was the same, but having the tag that matched the search term made the difference. Never underestimate the value of the tags that you apply to your posts. Think of good keywords that relate to the article or post. Us several long tail tags for the post. Add the tags to your thinking for on page SEO.