Bank Guru said:

82% of our traffic comes from Google. Pretty good source of traffic. Looking to focus a bit more now on referral traffic.

LOL - i'll trade ya!  We are about 40/40/20 direct/referral/search and want to change this up.

lol... The more content you publish a day, the higher chance you have of ranking with keywords and eventually you get 'lucky' with a high traffic keyword. SEOMOZ.org has an awesome keyword research tool.

That was 3 years ago.  Now I get 300-500 hits a day and around 75% of it is from search engines, mostly Google.

This is the kind of information that I am looking for. I know not expect much now, but I just want to be sure that I am doing things properly so that in 6 months, I can reap the benefits. 

unless you write about the same topics for several months in a row, don't expect much results from search engines for the first 6 months.

you can build something that is very solid, but you will need several months, a lot of SEO and linkbacks to achieve it.

Keep it up!

btw, I've written a quick SEO post on this forum:

http://yakezie.com/forums/blog.....38;ret=all

The best site for learning SEO, in my opinion, is problogger.  Rarely do any of the posts there actually talk about SEO, but you can learn a lot from how Darren gets tons of traffic from Google just by observing the posts on the site.  Every post has 

1. A unique headline, one that grabs attention on the blog, and in search results
2. A unique perspective on a certain blogging topic
3. Links to the inner pages of his site

That's pretty simple, but it's really what SEO is all about.  When targeting certain keywords, always try to put them in the headline, but make them as exciting as possible:

"How to budget" might be replaced with... "How to Budget like Chuck Norris," or "Asset Allocation" might be improved with "What Casinos Teach us about Asset Allocation."  You get the general idea: having a keyword in the title helps in ranking for that particular keyword, but even on Google you're still 1 site out of 10.  A unique headline in the #2-3 spot on Google is, in my opinion, worth just as much as a bland title in the #1 position.

Also, Matt Cutts always asks webmasters to ask, "Am I doing this for Google, or for the user?"  The simple fact is that Google's algorithm is becoming as qualitative as it is quantitative.  Usability, layout, ads to screen ratio are all factors that were considered in the company's recent "Panda" update.  

At one month you shouldn't worry too much about Google, it will come.  Like in the movie "The Field of Dreams", build it and they will come (lol).  It's great that you are getting a few hits already though!

Today, I only get around 50% from search engines, but I wasted the first 5 months on blogging because I didn't really know what I was going, so I'm behind the curve a bit.  With Yakezie, you can learn sooo much great info!  You are in the right place for incubating your new blog!!!  Welcome to the party! :)

Thanks, Money Reasons. 

Yakezie members are full of amazing information, so I am glad that I found the community! 

Today, I only get around 50% from search engines, but I wasted the first 5 months on blogging because I didn't really know what I was going, so I'm behind the curve a bit.  With Yakezie, you can learn sooo much great info!  You are in the right place for incubating your new blog!!!  Welcome to the party! :)

82% of our traffic comes from Google. Pretty good source of traffic. Looking to focus a bit more now on referral traffic.

LOL - i'll trade ya!  We are about 40/40/20 direct/referral/search and want to change this up.

Feb – 9.73%

Mar – 23.61%

Very happy about the big jump in March!  I've been paying better attention to SEO and have been looking at old articles for ways to improve them – nice to see hard work pay off.

I've been up since...late January, so I have roughly 25 real, tangible posts.  I'm excluding round-ups here, because those aren't going to get much traffic anyway seeing as the title, text etc isn't really a popular search.

 

In the past week, I've gotten 196 visitors from Google.  Most of which are from very, very obscure search terms (3 words or longer.)

 

Woah!  I just checked out your site, you're only a month old!  Don't expect anything big yet.  By the end of the year, you'll have a much better idea of how much Google loves you.  Actually, the one year mark is a pretty important threshold, as Google discounts greatly sites that have been around for <1 year. 

 

I really like your site design, very clean and "authoritative looking."

 

Hey JT,

I've read a few of your posts about monetizing and SEO and you seem to be quite knowledgeable.  Are there any books or websites you recommend to learn about SEO?  I want to be sure I am doing the right things now so I don't have to go back and fix all my posts in a year.

I do get a fair amount from InfoLinks and AdBrite, so it does work out okay!

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The College Investor said:

I get about 60% of my site traffic through Google organic search.  This is lower than past months as I have had some posts take off on Reddit, and that increased my referral traffic dramatically.