It's not as easy as it seems...

So I did my research last night, which kept me up until around 4 a.m. I read a few articles, tried a few things and pretty much got mad along the way. I will admit one thing, Learning SEO is NOT an easy thing. It's not necessarily hard, it's just something that no Average Joe would sit down and take the time to learn. It's alot that goes along with this SEO trick and if you don't have the patience to learn it, you won't get anything out of it.

I think I was at the point last night where I was ready to hire a professional web marketer. It's a time consuming thing for me, especially since I'm a music artist, music producer,Full-time mother, Full-time wife, as well as a product review assistant. I find it hard to include this into my life and I think thats where the frustration comes in at.

Ok, lets stop all the whining and get to the blueprint....

So the question is, what exactly did I do last night. Well I Found this article called "37 ways to market your website." I've read this article  in the past, I just never put anything that was said in it to good use.  It was the current project that I 've been working on  that got me much more interested in reading it. I read down the list and then I put together a trial and error log. So far, I'm on number 4. I have no idea why I thought I was going to get through the entire list that night. I must have been out of my mind. Everything on that list is not going to pertain to me and what I'm trying to do. I have learned that there is no one way of optimizating your site. There isn't a perfect blueprint thats out there giving you the secrets on how to do it. (I'm sure Google has something close to that.) But there are a whole host of people who have techniques that have worked well for them.

So the idea is to take a bit of information from all of those people who have had success with SEO, and create my own successful layout. Which in turn, makes my journey even more grueling. I LOVE THIS STUFF!!!

After all the philosophy........

The only real thing that I did last night  was put together an SEO article. And since it was time for me to update that area, that seemed to be perfect timing. I learned the basics of putting together a keyword density article of 0.5%-5%. (I think) I also learned how to figure out what my keyword density is without having to depend on programs to do it for me. It's something like, count the number of keywords you have, divide that number by the number of words in your article. Move the decimal point over twice to your right (in your answer), and  you'll have your article keyword density. It' s still a little confusing but It makes sense once you get the hang of it.

I'm still not sure if this is working, I did grab a few extra visitors yesterday,with no other advertisment what so ever. So hey, I guess consistancy plays a huge roll in this venture.

So here I am.......

Getting my feet wet and getting a headache all at the same time. I will tell you one thing, if I find that it's too overwhelming for me to handle on my own, I will grab some help. There are many professionals out there that do this for a living. I would suspect that they are professionals for a reason. If I feel the need to be apart of the reason, then you better believe I will. But don't think for one minute, that 'm going to stop learning what I need to learn to stay ahead of the game.....

Until next time,