Google Gold

           Personally, I did not necessarily try as hard as I could in order to make my blog easily reachable. On every comment, as instructed, I left a link to my own blog in order for other students to utilize. I was hoping that by doing this, my blog would have more views and people would be curious enough to read my posts. Other than this, I can't really say that I did too much in order to optimize the likelihood that my blog would appear on search engines.
           I used key words such as entrepreneur, student, and professional. I selected these key words because I thought that they would be the most relatable to this course. I figured that when people read my blog, these are the words that would come to mind. I did not really revise or change my words throughout the semester.
           Overall, I utilized Facebook in order to enhance my search engine optimization efforts. I thought that this was an effective way of promoting my blog, but it did not necessarily attract attention from my target audience. I don't think that too my college students look to Facebook to find blogs or class information, therefore I did not see too many relevant responses.
           I had two posts that were equally viewed, and they both had much higher views than my other posts. My second elevator pitch and the "What's Next" posts received a lot of attention. I think that these were probably two of my better posts, and maybe people looked at them because it was a little later in the semester. Also, I know that I would sometimes look at other posts for helpful ideas or tips, and I think that could be a possible reason for the higher number of views.
           I did not make it to the first page of Google's results for my keywords, and I could not find what page my blog appeared on. I did not do promote my blog as well as I could have, and I think that it why it is not higher up on Google's results. There are definitely many more blogs that have more popular posts which land higher in the search results.