I More Than Doubled The Content On My Site In A Couple Months

by Dan North
(Mortgage-modification-answers.com)

Dan North, Author and Webmaster

I have not worked at my site hard core and probably average writing maybe one content page a week (maybe one every two weeks). That does not mean that my site is not growing. I added C2 forms to my site after 2 months and another 2 months has now gone by.

As of this writing I have more visitor contributed C2 pages than content pages that I have written. I get C2 submission pages as questions for me to answer and I include my answer right in the submission page. I also site-blog (which is also automatically built for me from all my submissions, this is so cool) so these created pages go out on my site-blog and RSS feed.

Less than a week ago one of the C2 pages submitted to my site is already ranking as my 5th highest entry page, above most of the content that I have written for my site! The highest is my home page then my site blog followed by two other pages that I optimized and then this C2 page. This totally surprised me as I did not optimize this page beyond a little keyword seeding in my answer. In one month this may be my second highest entry page to my site. If not, it will be duking it out with my site-blog for the number 2 entry page. Yah two automatically built pages duking it out for the number two entry page slot.

Do I Believe In C2? You Bet!

My advice, add C2 early on your site. You will get lots of free help to build and grow your site. If you follow the Action Guide, even as slowly as I am, your traffic will grow and C2 will accelerate it. I know I have a very competitive niche and I get tons of leads from what little I have done so far and I have not really started monetizing the site yet beyond leads.

-Dan

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I More Than Doubled The Content On My Site In A Couple Months

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Answer to 2.5 Questions on Site Blog and Entry Pages
by: Dan

Hi Caroline,

Bess answered pretty well on the Site Blog question. You can go to my Site Blog which I call Mortgage Loan Modification Blog ( http://www.mortgage-modification-answers.com/Loan-Modification-blog.html ) it is on my left column navigation buttons as "What's New" to see what it looks like. Basically with this option activated, every time I build a page on my site a snippet of my page is posted with a permalink to the website page. This is done automatically for me. I can also make a post to this blog by writing what is called a bloglet if I do not want to build a web page but have something I want to write. Usually if what I want to write is shorter than what I would do for a web page and just want to put something up fast. I have only played with the bloglets a little bit so far but it is a good way to keep the site blog fresh when I have not been building more pages on my site.

You do have an option to build a full blog on your site but since I do not write consistently this is a good way to have a blog and get the search engines benefit of a blog. Search engines like to crawl blogs more often than web pages so it helps to get my web pages spidered faster and indexed into the search engines. (hope that made sense)

An entry page is the web page that the search engines send a visitor to when they do a search. If you google "mortgage foreclosure questions" my page comes up about #7 and if you clicked on that in the google results you would go to my web page Mortgage Foreclosure Questions and Fighting Back Effectively ( http://www.mortgage-modification-answers.com/Mortgage-Foreclosure-Questions.html ). That would be the entry page, which is the page you would have entered my website from the google search you did for "mortgage foreclosure questions".

So entry pages can be any web page on your site with the distinction of being the web page that your visitor first lands on at your web site. You want each of your pages to be an entry page as that means each page is getting found by visitors at the search engines for many different keywords /search terms that visitors are using to find your content.

With SBI I can keep track of my traffic statistics and see how many visitors arrive at my website and what page they entered my website on. I can also tell what search terms / key words were used to find my page at the search engine and the search engine that sent them to my page. So I know which page (entry page) is getting the most visitors to arrive at my website as well as the search they did to find that page.

I hope that answers your 2.5 questions without making for more questions (which I do not mind answering if you do have more questions).

As an update my Alexa rank is now under 600,000 and I have three C2 pages in my top ten entry pages and the earlier C2 page got beat out by a new C2 page but it is still close.

Dan

Site Blogs
by: Bess from www.Investing-in-Property-Rentals.com

Hi Caroline,

SBI has a tool you can use to turn every new page into what they call a "site blog". I call mine my "What's New" page.

Every time I add a page to my site, a little excerpt and link to that page pops up in my site blog, so people can find the latest things I've added.

You can edit your site blog with extra entries, called "bloglets" too. So while I'm doing my morning coffee and rounds of the online newspapers (on days I have time!), or You Tube, I have the BlogIt! bloglet editor open too, and I put the interesting articles and videos I find in the site blog with only a copy, a paste, and my own short summary. When I finish reading the news, I publish, giving my readers the best of my own site and the real news of the day.

Even more useful is that I link this Site Blog page into my "Property By Bess" Facebook Page, and then that also uploads to Twitter.

So I only have to update the Site Blog using BlogIt!, and I am automatically updating FB and Twitter too. People who subscribe to any of these will still get the latest, and come back to my site!

What's a site-blog?
by: Caroline

I have two questions. Is a site blog different from a blog? What do you mean by an entry page and how do you know if it's the second highest one? I guess I had 2.5 questions!

C2 Page Take Over The Number Two Spot
by: Dan North

WOW, we start off the new month and one of our C2 pages, Where To Go From Here With PNC/National City, did indeed take over the number 2 spot on our entry pages over all other optimized pages except my home page.

Just as a note I am a week away from finishing the 4th month of my site going on-line with my first page and C2 pages are 17 of the 33 pages on my site and I am now pushing 100 unique visitors a day average with an Alexa rank of about 800,000.

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