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I have been posting fun author tips and information about SEO. Let’s take today as the last day in this series to think about what, why, and how. I have a friend that always talks about Why we do things, drives what we do and how we do it. When you’ve attended a few of his sessions, he shorthands that to Why drives what and how. In the world of SEO, the thing that catches attention is why. The title is the way of an article. Each of us, wandering the online world, often stop and read things that have catchy titles. I also know, by the way, if the title is catchy and the content isn’t good, we don’t often go back to that article, or sometimes even go back to that site.
Many internet sites support two distinct types of SEO entry, as discussed yesterday, Tags and Titles. Catchy titles will drive attention. But the reality of catchy titles has to be backed up by interesting content. Go back into your old Virily posts. Consider the types of titles you’ve used. Do some exploration and see if you have any posts that have more than 300 views. What was the topic you discussed? For me, I have two distinct categories that I tend to post in. The wander project will normally within 20 days of being shared reach 100 views. My technology posts often reach about 150 or more views in those 20 days. However, those posts still get views far longer.
For example, I recently shared a very high view, low comment (it has many comments now, but originally did not) post. In fact, since sharing the post, it was picked up another 120 views. Good for the site, good for me! But the real benefit for the site is the roughly 1100 external views that post has generated. It was a topical piece about a robot from roughly three years ago. It has 1200 views on Virily today. The title Just another shameless review meet Jibo is a title I’ve used before. It is also a tag I use on occasion. The first time I released the article on Virily 3 years ago, it got 100 views. Three years later, with no sharing until recently, it has gotten around 900 external views from Google and Bing searches.
I understand the frustration a lot of authors have, we don’t get credit for sharing or for the external views. But the site does, and ultimately the site pays us, so it is a good thing.
Take a look at your old posts, do you have some gems like the one below?
https://virily.com/technology/just-another-shameless-review-meet-jibo/
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in your old posts do you have one that you found with a lot of Views?
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you understand that posts about Virily may get 200 views, but they don’t do anything overall outside of Virily right?
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Seo is great for getting more views to your posts and yes, catchy titles are the start of it all.
If your posts lack these they will hardly attract any interest at all.
that is really very true! thanks for stopping by!
One more very useful comprehensive review about SEO, really incredible!!! Knew about the importance of titles & tags. Also key words may influence on the number of views.
all are very true – it is difficult to balance sometimes.
Very interesting. Catchy titles are very important but also if you write generic titles it gets good Seo results if something is very popular. It is not an easy task. Yes, I guessed these Virily posts do not get traffic outside Virily.
great point – but i do get decent traffic outside of the site. Less and less now, because people don’t like free for all comments.
I wrote this comment 5 months ago!!!! How you guess the traffic??? Do you have a special tool that tells you about it??? Yes, people comment less now. It was better in the past, perhaps Virily changes it in the future again if things improve. Virily is a great site. I usually have a great time here. Let´s see if I write something for Virily again very soon. Yes, I am going to prepare a new post now. Have a nice day.
actually i use the twitter dashboard and track specific posts on twitter. Overall the site has a decent flow better than it was in Jan 2020 now.
I miss comments on occasion, i get a lot a day!
Some people told me that my site virily attract spam and so gave up. But I share on facebook and twitter and pinterest most times.
i am not sure an external view of Virily could create Spam. there are a lot of ads on the site. But i do understand the reputation of Virily having declined in the past two years.
Some one else told me that, I am not sure there is fact to her comment. I see all types of people and some are afraid of technology.
I am not, at the end of the day, computers are a plastic box, wires and solder metal, plus a few chrystals.
that is the hardest part of where we are today, right? that in fact computers are just machines.
humans are humans!
Yes, problems with computers are created by humans…
sadly they have the same limits, we do!
You are right if the articles is different from the content you’ll lose your credibility.
i suspect the reality of credibility becomes critical at some point.
Apologies. I wanted to mean if titles are different from content…
You are right. People want to know you are an expert or knowledgeable or experienced in what you’re sharing.
that is a very true statement!
As soon as I have the time I am going to look over my old posts. Supposedly the count is a bit over 800 and I have no idea what I wrote about. Now I do have all my posts saved but that still does not make it easy to go back and find the very old ones. I have a question – when I finally dig out one of the first posts I wrote here and it makes some sense can I repost it just for fun?
i would repost the ones with high views, that helps all the other authors on the site!
I often check my old posts, because I like linking them when they are relevant to the topic, and sometimes, I am surprised to see huge numbers of views. It’s a pity that some of them were affected by the missing photo issues. I discovered that while the missing photos from lists can be recovered, the ones from the story format are completely gone.
i would edit the ones with high views and bring them back to the front of the site. That will help all the authors on the site!
I don’t even look at old posts, my fried …. I have to praise the beautiful flower
I am glad you like the flower! send me one of your posts so I can see what we can do to increase views!
A great reminder for all of us. The title us what draws readers in. Good for you and your views on the older posts. I am gradually trying this as well with good results.
Forgot to mention how beautiful this flower is!
thanks – I’ve shared it many times was lazy today!
i saw you first edited high view low comment- it gained quite a view views. Let me know if I can help!!!
I believe it is the most important title. The title always attracts me. I have noticed that some of my older posts have many views.
i agree, your last two posts had great titles that drew external views!!!!
Thank you so much for your praise. I always have trouble choosing a title.
i suspect most of us have issues with titles! Articles focused on virily do not do well in the world of search.