Feb. 8 has News about SocialMonkee for Writers
Mike DeHaan
Here is impressive news from the SocialMonkee front! Yesterday my DeHaan Lens for Wood Computer Desks ranked about 230 on a popular SERP (Search Engine Results Page). I then promoted it using the free version of SocialMonkee, to 25 sites. This morning, this lens was better than 60th place. That is a huge leap.
Mind you, that is still the 6th SERP page: far beyond what most people will pursue.
Yet it is a valuable success story. One trick: plan the keywords and summaries carefully. Another: only use this for articles that are not already high in SERP.
My conclusions are:
Good luck with your SERP.
Mind you, that is still the 6th SERP page: far beyond what most people will pursue.
Yet it is a valuable success story. One trick: plan the keywords and summaries carefully. Another: only use this for articles that are not already high in SERP.
My conclusions are:
- Organic SEO is vital: select and use keywords in headings, as image captions, and as about 2% of the text.
- Choose a web site that is respected by the search engines; I have a hunch that Squidoo does not have high standings. I need to do more testing for that.
- Use a variety of backlinks: Digg and Reddit, blog pages, Twitter and Facebook, and also services such as SocialMonkee.
Good luck with your SERP.
SocialMonkee for a Suite 101 Article
Typical Shaker Product, a Shaker Chair Hung on a Peg by mattjiggins
Naturally I had to apply my new-found SocialMonkee tool to the Suite 101 article that had earned the most revenue in December 2010.
Mennonite, Amish and Shaker Products had lots of page-views and the most revenue. I checked the search terms that had led readers to this article. There were 143 different phrases, some mis-spellings, but none had succeeded more than three times. I chose to pursue ten key phrases. Six of them had first-page SERP results, meaning in the top 10. One was at position 485, and three were not found at all.
I worked on organic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for the successful search phrases. In some cases, the words were already in the text; but I added some where needed. I also revised my "tag" list, to focus on long-tail keywords. For example, "Mennonite Products" is useful for this article, but not "Mennonite".
It took over two hours to research the issues and update the article. I then planned the three titles, three descriptive paragraphs, and three lists of key phrases for SocialMonkee. The planning took much less than one-half hour. Copying and pasting took under a minute.
Tomorrow I plan to see whether my SERP results have improved for this article.
I also have begun planning for the next Suite 101 article to be upgraded in this fashion. It is the one with the highest ratio of earnings to page-views. Obviously it needs many more readers!