Fitness Blog Training

Kris:

@deek67: I bought Andre’s course that Rusty recommended on list building, kind of expensive but it was worth the money in my opinion. Just haven’t had the time to implement it yet.

The first thing I notice, at least in your latest post, is that you don’t name the title and main header your exact keyword phrase.

You seem to be targeting three phrases in one article, what I would rather do is choose one and center your article around it, or write three longer articles on each since these three topics could all be expanded into an entire detailed article.

Then put the exact keyword phrase in the: title tag, meta description tag, url and main header.

Then include the phrase at least two times in the text, blending in naturally, possibly also in a subheader. Also make sure that the article is actually about that keyword phrase.

Also, I recommend naming an image yourkeywordphrase.jpg with the alt=”A picture of your keyword phrase” tag.

That like button looks kind of weird on the top of the article, I’d place it at the bottom or make sure it doesn’t interfere with the text at the top.

Your sidebar also looks a bit too slim for the widgets in it. Maybe try to edit your css a little to widen the sidebar. Maybe throw in some extra linebreaks here and there too to improve readability.

@Robin: It really depends. Some keywords are easier than I might think at first, while some are more difficult. I’ve been able to get page 1 ranking within a day, or even within 1 or 2 weeks.

It has also happened that I’ve given up on a keyword and stop link building towards it and then suddenly 6 weeks after I post it bumps top the top 3.

So, it’s really hard to tell. I’m pretty sure it happens faster as google trusts your site more, sometimes I’m ranking on page 2 just a few minutes after posting but even so it can take a while to get a good page 1 rank.

I’d say.. 2-4 weeks is a good estimate, but it may take 6 weeks or longer. Might happen a lot faster, but it’s rare.

Kris:

@deek67: If you write about coconut oil, for example “what is the best coconut oil” then you should include that exact phrase in the title, description, header and url of the post.

For example, the title of the article could be “Tell me what is the best coconut oil to buy”

description could be “We’ve all heard how coconut oil can be good for us, in this article I am going to tell you what is the best coconut oil that you can find in the store”

header: same as the title, “Tell me what is the best coconut oil to buy”

url: yourblog.com/what-is-the-best-coconut-oil/

If you’re already almost ranking for “fitness training programs”, then you’re probably ranking for a typical page or post of your blog. Don’t change the title of that page, but ever time you write a new post then use a new title with a keyword phrase you’re trying to rank for.

I see your theme automatically puts “< Workout Routines For Women" after every title. It should be possible to disable that with an seo plugin. Everything in your title after the 66-70 character mark gets cut off anyways.

Kris:

@Robin: Nope, doesn’t matter, the name of the auto blog can be anything you want and it can be .info, .com or any other extension.

Kris:

@Robin: It really doesn’t matter. 1WayLinks will create a few links to your auto blog to make sure it gets indexed, if you want a specific anchor text for those links then you put it there.

For example if your auto blog is bestdogfoodsite.com, then the anchor texts might be “best dog food”, “dog food site” and “dog food”.

Kris:

The site that you link to with your comment.

For example, I click your latest post, in the title it says “BC1200 something < Workout routines for women". If you go to any post, and hover your mouse over the tab in your browser you should see it.

You can also right click on the page, click "page source" and then you should see it close to the top between the and tags.

Not really a big issue, for some this is personal preference.

Kris:

Ignore it, you don’t want want to link back to the auto blogs. Then they won’t be “one way” links anymore.

If a real blogger is linking to your post then that’s a different story.

Kris:

A good formula would be, with 250 posts per month:

Write a keyword targeted post every week, spin it, submit to 1WL linking to the original post with 60 total posts at a rate of 1 per day.

Or, write two keyword targeted posts per week, spin them and submit to 1WL for 30 posts with a rate of 1 per day.

It’s as simple as that.

With link building, in my opinion, “low and slow is the way to go”.

Kris:

Correct!

Don’t forget to spin the title and anchor text too.

Kris:

@ringo: That sounds about right, although personally I choose to use just one link per post in 1waylinks. You should also spin the anchor text of the link pointing back to your original blog post.

Don’t forget to write a really good article, that is the most important thing here. If people land on your site through a search engine and don’t like your article, the search engines will “know” and won’t give you as good of a rank.

@To all of you guys: I am no master of SEO, these are simply the techniques that I have used with good success. There are plenty of other tools out there that work and thousands of successful people that have completely different tactics.

It’s best to just experiment, that’s the best way to learn and eventually you will find your own personal strategy that you like.

Kris:

I don’t see any reason why traffic should drop with 1waylinks.

Which traffic source was it that dropped, and has it happened before?

A possibility you linked to some bad sites, or maybe experienced some downtime?

Kris:

@ringo: I don’t worry about keyword density but try to include my main keyword phrase blended naturally within the text about 2-3 times in my posts.

I wouldn’t worry too much about this, just include your keyword phrase naturally a few times and make sure your article is actually written about whatever it is your keyword phrase is describing.

We have to remember here that our articles are for human beings to read, doing all the on-page SEO tricks like keyword density, bolding, underlining, h1, h2 and h3 tags can all combine to make a decent post look spammy as hell

Kris:

I would delete those pingbacks if I were you, maybe one of them has malware or something.