Google Gold

I would say that for my purposes, I was absolutely successful!

For each blog post, well at least my posts after the half way mark in this class, I remembered to include my keyword  somewhere, or multiple places in my post. Also, I always remembered to link my post when I commented on others blogs. And when we were required to use a video or picture, I included those in the post as well.

So my keyword, also happened to be the name of my future website: ProgramPlanner2.0. I selected this, because it is not very common and no direct hits popped up when I googled it before using it. Also, I wanted something that was simple. When RAs eventually search for this website, I want it to be easily found. This phrase being kind of cliche will hopefully allow it to be remembered. I didn't have a name for my website in the beginning, so I came up with it about halfway and continued to adamantly use it.

I didn't really want to associate myself with this blog. I did have the YouTube account, but didn't advertise my blog or my videos anywhere.

I think, I don't actually know how to find the data or if you can find the data, that my most viral post was Growing My Social Capital because for some reason I had six people comment on that post. I seriously doubt that an outsider of this class viewed my, or any others', blogs. So six comments would probably correlate to the most traffic.

I did make it to the first page of Google results! The first link, actually! Probably because it is very specific, but I made it that way because my users would be searching for this very specific thing and then they could find it.