Every one of us who writes has be grateful for the fact that there are those to whom we owe a debt of gratitude, because they choose to read the things we write, and if they should pass comment, then we are even more indebted.
I read a post today that talked about the indecipherable phenomena of the SEO, and feel that I now have a debt to the writer, because my eyes were opened to the fact that they may actually not be the be all and end all solutions to the question of increasing views that they get continually touted as. It seems that one needs to seek out, and then include as many times as possible within your post, words that the search engines are more likely to trawl for.
With this in mind, I thought that might try to repay me debt to the author by experimenting with one particular word that always features high in search engine priority lists, but is most often used in the context of those people who are experiencing financial difficulties in repaying sums they have borrowed from others, at times when they needed monetary assistance. These problems are naturally prevalent through most western societies, and dealing with such debt is a major issue for many.
It is true to say, however, that it is indeed possible to be indebted to others for reasons far removed from financial considerations, and it was in this spirit that I decided to write my experimental post, though since triond is not one of the sites that google searches visit regularly, being banned for some reason, it may prove to be a fruitless attempt, though I shall post it on Bukisa and shetoldme, as well as digg and facebook, just to see what the response turns out to be, naturally owing a debt to these sites for allowing me the opportunity to post me work there.
Question is, how much of a benefit to the writer is the SEO? Like the author of the post I read, I wrote an article about green tea simply because it was supposed to be among the most sought after topics by surfers, but, like that writer, I got less than fifty views in two weeks, so it either means that the barring of triond from google searches is making life for contributors far more difficult than it need be, or SEOs just do not work as they are widely reputed to do. I find it hard to imagine that those of us who, in reality, owe a huge debt to fellow triond members for reading our posts, would not like to get the sort of views the writing truly deserves.
I cannot speak for the rest of you, but I do feel that the admin team at triond, which I genuinely think is a great site, by the way, should be ding what they can to repay the enormous debt they owe to us contributors, by trying to ACTUALLY do something about the google situation, and get us all the page views that our hard work undoubtedly deserves. Debt has many faces in this world, and many ways exist for the indebted to make reparation. Let us all pray that those in charge of this site get bust addressing our concerns, so that we end up being in debt to them, for putting us all where we belong in the rankings
Tags: debt, importance, indebtedness, Posts, rankings, searches, SEOs, views, Writers
April 13th, 2011 at 5:55 am
You know, my best articles are never on the list of most searched terms, despite some gaining over 300 views, almost all from Google.
April 13th, 2011 at 6:01 am
Very good work.
April 13th, 2011 at 6:17 am
Another great article. I also read the one that you wrote yesterday about page views decreasing and then forgot to comment. I too have noticed a decrease in the number of page views that I have received this week (about a third of the usual amount). Part of this may be due to not having written an article for over a week until today. I am now 38 weeks pregnant, still working full time and looking after my other children. I decided that I deserved a few days off from writing in the evenings!
April 13th, 2011 at 7:27 am
Well written Tony. I agree with your point of view.
April 13th, 2011 at 7:46 am
Great post, Tony.
April 13th, 2011 at 7:58 am
Interesting experiment. I think that when it comes to the most searched terms, you compete with 100s of other articles so it is more difficult to get to the top of the list. When you write about something different, fewer people are interested, but those that are, do find your article.
I also think the Triond management is almost invisible and should give feedback about important issues like Google and Adsense and show that they are also interested in improving views.
April 13th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Tony, That was a very heartfelt article – thank you