SEO Challenge ‘09

Posted on January 3rd, 2009 by in Misc

A new year has started and this blog has hit 7 months of age!

With this in mind despite my huge workload I have decided to join Dollar$howers SEO Challenge ’09. I am not going to rehash the prizes, the contest details and the such; as it deserves a ‘click through’ to his site for maximum benefit and clarification of the contest.

The bottom line though is the person with the maximum % increase of search engine traffic at the end of the six week period wins.

My strategy

I have recently been trying to build my SEO knowledge and have been learning and accumulating quite a bit. However with my recent tweaking of the site I feel I have done as much as I can to improve on site ‘default’ SEO without actually editing the older posts. So increasing my Search engine traffic from an average of 77 hits per day will indeed be a challenge.

In regards to my older posts as I do not wish to edit the posts themselves I will be concentrating on building links to the posts via social media. A medium I have not really used.

He who think SEO is just linkbuilding though is gravely mistaken. So for my newer planned posts I shall be aiming to maximise the  main ‘keywords’ so to maximise traffic from search engines. As I have 8  ‘draft posts’ pending I think sticking to my weekly schedule I shall be able to do this with ease. (this would mean I will not be diverting from my normal posts to cash in on the quick tricks of gaining SE’ Traffic).

Speaking of my posting schedule I will be moving my post dates back to Monday; as the majority of traffic from SE’s comes from during the week so having two extra days per week for each post can’t hurt. (Yes I know even on Wednesday they were same number of weekdays but I mean consecutive days).

Lastly if you have a quick look at the sites meta data in google you can see that its not very pretty. So I also will be attempting to resolve this issue and editing the meta data. While yes Google’s weight on meta data is debatable, Yahoo and MSN/Live still take this into account and this is a SEO contest not a Google optimisation contest.

However as an extra challenge to myself I shall not work on neither optimisation nor posts for more than 7 hours per week. :p

So I wish all the other contestants good luck and of course I hope to win! If you have any other strategies and recommendations feel free to comment below and let me know!

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14 Comments

  • At 2009.01.03 06:50, Ajith Edassery | DollarShower said:

    Thanks for the shout out Donace. A small correction… It’s not six months but just six weeks. We will wind up by Feb 16 :) Otherwise, this itself will be my 2009 goals…

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    • At 2009.01.03 08:28, Donace said:

      whoops typo :p Thanks for dropping by man and good luck with the whole thing

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    • At 2009.01.03 08:40, SATISH -- Technotip.org said:

      Hey, I am also participating in this contest. Though I have a little time to spend online this month, due to my exams.

      Best of luck dude..

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      • At 2009.01.03 09:35, Donace said:

        Me to man got exams and coursework due soon; but having a break from it is useful. That is my reason for entering the contest.

        Good luck to you also.

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      • At 2009.01.03 18:49, mye said:

        hi donace – i am not so inclined to understand the SEO thing at this point in time. for now, i am enjoying blogging but when the time comes i hope i can count on you about this thing :)

        good luck to you and i hope you win the contest!

        thanks for visiting blog appetite, please do visit often and feel free to leave your comments

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        • At 2009.01.03 19:00, Donace said:

          I’ve been blogging a few months and I only started to ‘get’ SEO recently; this is just a way to hone what I know and learn more.

          Thanks for dropping by!

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        • At 2009.01.04 08:42, D3Marketers|Make Money Online said:

          Great site.I have learned a lot from your posts today. Thanks for you do follow blog list. It will of course simplify my blog commenting journey of choosing the right blogs to comments relevant to my niche.

          More power and God Bless!

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          • At 2009.01.04 08:53, Donace said:

            Thanks for dropping by; keep in mind I haven’t been updating the list (the Search-engine though is on automatic updates); if you want an up to date list I suggest http://www.rajaietalks.com/do-follow-blogs

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          • At 2009.01.08 14:45, Raju said:

            I also registered for the contest. Hoping to learn lots of SEO tricks during the course of time and share whatever I know :)

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            • At 2009.01.08 15:23, Donace said:

              Sweet Raju; good luck and I hope to learn a lot as well!

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            • At 2009.01.13 03:04, Jessie | Super Bright said:

              Looking forward to hearing how things turn out after the six weeks, and especially what tactics you employed to increase your search engine traffic. :) Good luck.

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              • At 2009.01.13 07:04, Donace said:

                Thanks! so far with doing nothing and about 12 hours downtime it has gone up by 5.58% hopefully I’ll work on it this weekend!

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              • At 2009.01.13 21:34, Nihar said:

                Donace, i am new to your site. I am also a participant in the SEO challenge!

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                • At 2009.01.14 01:19, Donace said:

                  Good luck to you!

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