Comments on: Tier One Lenses: How Much Traffic Do They Need? http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/10/tier-one-lens-traffic/ Adventures in Blogging and Article Writing (since 1993) Mon, 10 Aug 2015 00:23:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Greekgeek http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/10/tier-one-lens-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:41:33 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=692#comment-84 Interesting. As for the daily updates, I shy away from anything that requires daily maintenance; I’m not just being lazy, but want to kill two birds with one stone so that any time I’m working on my lenses, I’m building content and SEO, so that I don’t have to do the same thing again tomorrow. Short-term it’s a slower approach, but long-term, it’s like compound interest.

Off-page backlinks from good sites are indeed one powerful tool in the SEO toolbox, but not the only one. It’s just that since lots of people sink most of their time into linkbuilding, that’s what seems to be giving them traffic. Google “SEO Myths and the Power of Repetition” for an illuminating article on the subject by an industry expert who’s been doing controlled testing of ranking factors for many years.

I’ve gotten some lenses to the top 5 spots on Google (or even the top spot on Google) with only a backlink from the not-very-SEO-worthy Lensography page on Squidbits to help search engines find it.

]]> By: LindaJM http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/10/tier-one-lens-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:59:54 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=692#comment-83 Try daily updates on your top twenty lenses for a few weeks and see what happens! Mine rose… then the top one got to 130 and started going back down. Just call me confused (as to why) but I think overall the daily updates were a good idea.

I still think off-page backlinking from reputable on-topic sites is the best strategy.

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