July 2, 2016 at 10:57 pm

It only shows that the admin of this site do not want to hear anything about our personal experience even though it may be helpful to others in improving their life.

July 3, 2016 at 4:40 am

@ruby3881  Here’s some work for you Kyla. What have I not done here, when you say there are strong keywords, good post but not optimised for search engines.  I am at sea!!!

July 3, 2016 at 9:00 am

@swalia Actually the quality of the posts does not improve just because we write with seo techniques.

The improvement is in the number of readers from search engines, and the corresponding ad revenue.

Though Literacybase does not have Adsense yet, sooner or later they will have, and they will see higher earnings due to the posts that attract search engine traffic.

July 3, 2016 at 9:22 am

@bestwriter I like to answer on behalf of @ruby3881

For your post, I assume the keyword is “the power of positive thinking”.

1. Title can be optimized to “How to use the power of positive thinking.”  Adding the word “how-to” is always good for search engine optimization.  Another way is to rename as “Positive Thinking: How positive thinking transforms your life”

2. Rewrite to include more second person (You) instead of first person (I), because that makes the readers feel like you are talking to them.  (eg: When you have a mini tornado devastating your garden, how do you keep a positive thought? This is a real incident that happens in my garden).

3.  I run an seo keyword density analysis on the web page that contains your blog.  http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/

Guess what is the result?  The prominent keyword is “July”, because the post is published in July, and all the comments are dated in July.  In the end, “July” is the prominent keyword, followed by “positive thinking”, even then it does not have 4% keyword density.

In many cases, comments dilute the keyword density.  If you have 100 comments that include “good article”, the outstanding keyword becomes “good article” instead of “positive thinking”.

@ruby3881 Over to you, please add on.

July 3, 2016 at 10:11 am

@schenge @ruby3881 I analysed a few of my blogs through analysers that are available and got results that are not in keeping with what LB thinks deserves more money, less money  or are only fit to be rejected.

I will not bother about these things any more but just write for my writing pleasure, no matter what – even if they reject I will not question support why they have rejected. I am tired of this exercise specially since what the analysers tell me and what LB thinks does not match at all.

I truly appreciate your efforts here. Finally  most of us are here because we enjoy writing and what we earn here is just a bonus and I get that nice feeling when I  hear those jingles in my  paypal account.

It will not be out of place to say here that after all I am one of the few who have redeemed a second time here   :smile:.

July 3, 2016 at 11:58 am

@beswriter, why is that so when your blogs are scholarly, accurate and informative. maybe they do not read, or they just judge according to the length? Yes, there are very long blogs, and I suspected not original. I no longer write blogs for I do not have time, plus, I no longer like. I am just wasting my energy.Only few visits a published blog, usually to discuss under forum.

July 3, 2016 at 12:01 pm

@Rajaraman K, I absolutely agree with your contention that the moderators do not like to engage personal blogs. They do not know that we blog to connect lives, very shallow minds.It is from our personal blogs where people learn cultures and traditions from different countries.

July 3, 2016 at 2:47 pm

@cely  As I have commented above I will not try and analyse why this is happening any more. I like to write and that’s what my aim would be – to write.

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July 3, 2016 at 9:37 pm

@bestwriter It seems that this is more a matter of pride and personal achievement for you than a matter of money, so it’s disappointing that you would decide to drop the matter of your on-page SEO so easily. It’s your choice completely, of course, but I feel quite confident that you could improve your SEO despite the fact that this is a task considered quite daunting by many web writers.

Because you asked for more input and in the hopes that my insights might help others, I will reply to your request for help with the SEO of that post in particular.

1) As @scheng1 pointed out, the keyword density was low. “Norman Vincent Peale” doesn’t rate at all, with only one mention in some 500 words. And the density for keywords like “positive” and “positive thinking” is less than 1% for each term. Unrelated words like “area,” “rewards,” and “email” have as much prominence on the page as the phrase “positive thinking.” Words like “fallen,” “tree,” and “water” rank almost as high. What you want to do is use your keywords – and also related words and phrases like “thought” or “think,” which search engines will understand are variations on “thinking” – more in your post.

2) You use the longtail keyword phrase, “power of positive thinking” three times: once in the title and twice in the first sentence of the opening paragraph. But you don’t repeat it anywhere else in the article. Three repeats in rapid succession could be seen by search engines as keyword stuffing. It’s often better to space out the occurrence of a keyword phrase. It should be in the title and as close to the beginning of the opening sentence as possible (preferably in the first 5 words) and it should be repeated a few times throughout the body, with one mention in the last paragraph. Your keyword phrase should also appear in one subheading and in the caption of your image. This means you’d have to add subheadings and an image caption to improve the value of this post.

3) Although your keywords relate to the book and your conclusion is a recommendation for others to read the book, you never really say anything about the book at all. This is why I say the focus of your post is unclear. You don’t give any background, other than referring to the title and the author’s name. And throughout the body where you discuss the various challenges presented by the storm damage, you miss several opportunities to refer to specific principles or techniques taught in the book. You could increase keyword density and improve focus by explaining how the book helped you cope in this situation.

4) There is no clear goal or call to action in your post. Was your goal to get the reader to go out and read the book? Was it to educate the reader about how to use the power of positive thinking? Or was it really just to recount a personal experience? When it comes to SEO, your personal experience shouldn’t ever be the focal point of your content. Rather, it should be used only to flesh out the content and to help push the reader towards your goal. So if your goal was to encourage people to read the book, the personal details should be used to illustrate how the lessons in the book equipped you to cope when others were unable.

I hope this helps all who want to improve their SEO! Remember, while some posts are paying as low as 5 cents, there are others that are getting a return that is 7-10x as much. Although I’m not sure exactly what specific factors are being weighed when compensation is assigned, I do know I can consistently earn higher amounts with longer posts, a focused subject, and just casual attention to keyword placement.

July 3, 2016 at 11:02 pm

@bestwriter I am not good at SEO and keywords. I don’t understand it at all. I write what comes to my mind. If I will think too much about keywords and SEO then I will not be able to write at all. And like you said, we are the few ones who have redeemed for the second time 🙂

@Kyla Matton Osborne (Ruby3881) You are so good at the SEO stuff…It’s all Greek to me 🙁

July 4, 2016 at 4:32 am

@Rubgy3881 If not for getting better earnings atleast for the time and effort you have put in to ‘dissect’ my blog and show what could have been a seo friendly blog I will try to make it so with my next blog.

Thank you Kyla for your precious time and I hope others will read your comment and benefit by it.  🙂

July 4, 2016 at 4:35 am

@shaloo walia –  Same here 🙂

July 4, 2016 at 4:48 am

@ruby3881  I just wanted to add that when writing for iwriter when the ‘requester’ asks for a certain number  I have done that there.

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July 4, 2016 at 8:27 am

@swalia A lot of people feel that SEO takes away from the spontaneity or creativity of their writing. I like to look upon it the same way I would using a condom when lovemaking: it’s awkward when one isn’t used to doing it but with practice, it becomes very natural.

@bestwriter It’s a little bit more clear when the exact keywords and number of repetitions are given, isn’t it? It is more effort to write a single post with SEO in mind but this is one of the reasons many bloggers prefer to choose a niche: the effort of researching keywords and finding ways to include them in the right density becomes easier when spread over many related posts 🙂

July 4, 2016 at 10:33 am

@ruby3881   It is sad that the SEO is done not based on  the quality of contents but by the number of keywords placed at vantage points. And  the link gets a place on the first page of Google  Search. The link is opened adding a view  and so more money to the blogger but the one who has opened the page could be disappointed as the contents may not be of help or be of poor quality.

Am I right about this?

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