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All this talk lately about Google, blogs, shitty sales etc, I’ve started working on an adult blog that I believe offers something different and unique. Well, to a degree. Others are blogging news and gossip as well as porn, but I have my own style of writing and setting things up. So in these respects it’s unique.
So I’ve got a dozen or so posts up, haven’t submitted to any social media or blog sharing sites. Google and other engines know nothing about it and neither does the rest of the world at this point. It made a sale today.
The blog is already getting about 200 views a day. I find myself thinking, “Should I even submit it to Google Webmaster Tools?” Will this screw things up? It seems whenever I do, some algorithm change causes things to go to hell.
The blog is optimized and I’m using the Yoast plugin for SEO. Which has served me pretty well with other blogs.
What do you think? How could a blog that is barely a week old take hold so fast and actually produce revenue? Ok, it’s one freaking sale. LOL. But I’ve got blogs that see 400 unique hits a day and they haven’t produced much in the past while.
By the way, Google has already taken the liberty of indexing some urls from the blog. Another head scratcher there.
Signed…’Absolutely Perplexed’.
Why are you perplexed?
Google Webmaster tools is just a optional service, you don’t need to use it and it makes no real difference in most cases. You’ll get indexed no matter if you use it or not. The reason you’re getting more hits with a new blog might be because you’re writing about things that are not already published elsewhere and because it’s new. Real major growth is the real tricky part.
Google finds new sites anyway… you don’t need to submit your site or have tons of links pointing towards your site. One link to your site is enough for the spiders to find and index your site.
Something unique gets more Google traffic, that’s no surprise… but you have to keep in mind that newly listed sites often move up and down in the SERPs till Google has determined how they will rank them. In other words; the current results (hits you’re seeing) might be temporarily.
Isn’t Twitter still one of the fastest way to get googlebot over to your site?
I agree with what others have said, if you’ve put a link anywhere out there it probably would have been crawled and discovered within a few days, without you doing anything at all to promote it.
I don’t know if things have changed in this regard since I started years ago, but it used to be that a new site could get a spike in traffic from Google before it settled down and found a more natural position.
On my creampie tube that ranks #1 and breaks all SEO rules I also forgot to mention I didnt add google anylitics, not sure if this means anything or not, but it’s not submitted to anywhere including google and no GA code in the site. Stats are from a small 3rd party stats company that smutnode uses.
Might be worth a shot to skip the G beast.
Thanks for the feedback folks.
I’m perplexed because it seems to me that whenever I have anything to do with Google something goes into the dumper. Yet when I leave it things seem to go in my direction. Or at least at the start anyway. There have been some occasions where things stayed pretty good, but it’s been a while.
Very interesting olbond. I just submitted the blog to GA, but I think I’m going to delete the account and look into your idea. It’s very intriguing. I’ll look for another analytics service in the event I need more than what my WP plugins can offer. Do you have any suggestions?
“Might be worth a shot to skip the G beast.”
Oh, I agree more than you could ever know.
Over the last month I’ve been optimizing a site for Bing, ignoring Google, and the results are interesting to say the least. Google might have the biggest chunk of the SE market, but when you’re competing with so many bigger businesses and sites, it actually makes more sense to compete in a smaller marketplace where getting first position is much easier.
If I have no hope of getting on page 1 of Google, and only 10% of relevant searches are seeing my business there, while I can get in position 1 on Bing, with 80% of relevant searches seeing my site, it’s obvious which SE is the right one to work with.
