Freelancer and the Beanstalk
As I said, things are humming- what with everything
else I have to do, I'm only getting about 14 pages
online per day (still a substantial amount by normal
web standards), and the backlog is about 170
articles- but I think I have a way to increase that
number without causing any problems... and no, it's
not by taking amphetamines!
Many of you know or have noticed also that I've
been slowly improving the author pages, adding new
topic pages, etc.- this appears to help google find
articles, get the right ads on them, and increase
our google rankings.
For example, John Luton
emailed me and asked if I had done anything to his
pages, because they had gone up in rank. "Nope, not
directly," I replied. "That may be the result of my
overall site improvements." Or it could simply be
the delayed rank settling-out effect that seems to
happen over time. So many factors involved, it's
hard to predict.
The best analogy I have still
is farming. We're planting seeds (articles)- we try
to select the best seeds (keyphrases), and I try to
give them what they need to sprout and thrive (get
ranked highly), but not all of them sprout, and some
sprout then wither. And then, maybe 1 in 50 or 1 in
100 shoots up into the clouds like Jack's beanstalk.
Those are the ones we're hoping for.
I have
attempted dozens of
analyses to try to understand why this or that does
or doesn't succeed- and I will continue to do this
(in fact, I'm reading up on statistical analysis
these days), but often I find these analyses reach a
point of diminishing returns- where you use up a lot
of time and either learn nothing or start to wonder
if you're going to learn anything that will make a
significant difference. Because, fundamentally,
every keyphrase is surrounded by a bunch of
different variables, not all of which we can name or
quantify... it's complicated!
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