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Week 3 (Week 2 conclusion)

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I didn’t check in at the end of the week last week. However, we had a decent week productivity wise. What I wanted to accomplish was

  • Write 2-3 more articles
  • Start social media
  • Clean up the website visually

We ran into a snag starting the social media. I wanted to get an email set up for the website but I am just not sure on the best way to do that. I want it to be able to grow into a potential email list but it seems too early to start a google business account. My plan for this week is to sign up for just an average gmail account for the website and to start the social media with that. We will worry about business accounts and email lists down the line.

Articles were written, and we got even better with using WordPress design tool. If you’re reading this, you probably don’t believe me based on how this website looks so again, I implore you to visit onlinecaddie.blog. So as for my progress last week, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

Now, onto this week. I have one main goal for this week:

  • Write one article every day Monday through Friday

By the end of the week I want 5 articles that are written and SEO optimized and published on Online Caddie. A bit of a lofty goal given my work ethic, but I now feel comfortable enough with how the website looks that I want to post as much (good) content as possible. In addition, today I want to at least start a Twitter account and a Pinterest account, and post these articles on there. I will eventually start an instagram account as well, I am just deciding if I should turn my personal account into the online caddie account so that I won’t have to start from 0 followers.

I feel as though I am officially in the “writing” stage of this journey. All I am worried about for the near future is writing as much content that is quality and SEO friendly as possible. This week I will try to remember to check in at the end to see what progress I made.

A New Direction – Week One: Remix!

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I’ve done some soul searching over the weekend and have tried to figure out the best way to pivot this website. I’ve decided that it is going to remain a personal blog, it just has to be more intentional in its’ purpose.

Like I said, the main goal of the blog is to not make money, it is to hold myself accountable in my progress. However, I would like for the blog to have at least have some interactions from readers. To do this, I would like for this blog to eventually blossom into a resource for other potential bloggers to use when curious about other people’s experiences when first starting out. I have found that the one thing that would be very helpful in doing this is hearing from someone who has gone through this process and hearing what they have to say from beginner to expert.

Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of experts to hear about from the internet. This blog is going to be an approach coming more so from a personal lens, showcasing my process, what I am doing, and how that works out for me. Rather than posting daily, my posts will come once at the beginning of the week, and once at the end of the week. The beginning of the week post will outline what I plan to do, my goals, and what I want to accomplish. The end of the week post will include what I did, if I reached my goals or not, and the resources that I used to get there.

These changes will force me to reformat my homepage, but I am not too worried about that at the moment. Once I start producing more quality posts, I suspect that the organizational aspect of my website will begin to fall into place (I’m hoping at least). I believe that the stress I am taking away from forcing myself to post daily will allow me to focus on more important things that will be more productive in reaching my long term goals.

All that being said, here is what I plan to do and accomplish this week:

  • Start social media for this blog (Linkedin, Twitter, Pinterest? (i’ve heard it is very helpful))
  • Start my official blog: Online Caddie – A website for people just learning the game of golf to get information that they need when first starting out
  • Come up with a list of possible content to write on that blog. Start writing a post
  • Figure out a way to share resources on a blog while giving proper credit (I plan to utilize this a lot on Daily Content Writer)

Online Caddie is my blog that I will be going “all in” on. This is the blog that I will be actively using SEO tactics on, attempting to gain followers and traffic, and ultimately be the website that I would like to and expect to make money on first. Much of what I write about on Daily Content Writer will be directly related to whatever is happening on Online Caddie. The ultimate goal is to do well enough with one or either of these sites so that I can eventually start another one in a different niche and have even quicker success.

As expected, the start of my blogging journey is a bit bumpy with some audibles to my original plan. I feel good about the plan I have, and feel motivated enough to attack it with overwhelming positivity, because that is the best way to do anything. Thank you for following along, I will check back in at the end of the week.

3 Things I Learned About SEO Optimization (Easy to Apply) – Day Seven

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As you can tell by the different title in this daily post, I have done a bit more research on SEO Friendly websites today. Again, the goal of this blog is not to gain followers, but instead to give me a medium to practice how to do that.

  • First of which, the obvious one, is using numbers and brackets in your titles. Numbers are attention grabbing and will make more people more inclined to click on your link. It is very simple to rework your title into having numbers and parentheses to make it more appealing.
  • A great way to find key words is to search your content topic, and scroll to the bottom of Google to see what other words or phrases are related to that search.
  • Meta descriptions (the blurbs under each google result when your search something) can influence a reader to click on your site. There is nothing to gain from including key words in those descriptions, however, those that are written well and satisfy what the user is searching for make them more likely to get clicked on.

I’ve also learned that using an SEO plugin may be an advantage as well, given that there are a few effective free options. I am going to hold off on installing one for this website however. I have almost a fully conceptualized idea of the website that I want to make that I would like to go “all-in” on. Once that website is built and launched, then I will use a plug in to see the true difference that something like that can make.

Just using these few simple tactics that I was reading up on today, my posts are already looking more internet friendly. Still a long way to go, but already seeing improvements from my day one post is a positive sign. (using internal links such as that one is another thing I learned today)