So, I have this blog that is mostly erotica. This blog is a few years old. On this blog I have about 60 writings. One of my writings is basically masturbation instructions for women into DDlg. The title is Masturbation instructions: babygirl. This writing has had about 80,000 views. The writing that has had the next amount of views is 5,000. When you do a search in google for "masturbation instructions for a female" as well as many other searches that have the words "masturbation instructions" in them a link to my writing comes up on the first page. My question is, how did this even happen? Like, when I posted the writing three years ago was it coming up like 30 pages deep, and somewhere along the way someone went that deep and they clicked on it. And then it was 28 pages deep until someone else clicked on it? And now it is on the first page? Is that basically how search engines work?
So that brings me to the following question. Should I be making my titles so they are more search engine friendly or do the tags I use take care of that. For example, the next most searched story is titled "Forced Bi." This is a super common fetish. I use the tag forced bi for it. Is that why it gets hits. One of the least viewed stories is titled "Gretchen," the name of the main character. This obviously has no real clues as to what the story is about. Is this a bad title because it makes it so nebulous in a search engine? Please, anyone who understands this crazy stupid world of search algorithms, if you have any insight into this, I would really appreciate it.
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So, as SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is an increasingly big part of my job, so I can try to answer a couple of questions. First, interestingly, the number of users clicking on the specific link has actually relatively little to do with its final ranking, so you hardly ever "climb" among the pages as a result of that. the weight of users was largely diminished (along with a few other factors like number of incoming links to a page and meta tags) precisley in order to make SEO more difficult. Webmasters could generally "buy" either incoming traffic, massive redirection links or lie in the meta-tags in order to fool early SEO.
Contemporary SE use literally hundreds of factors to order their searches. So it has generally become a "best guess" thing as to what actually works. What we do know for sure is that Google crosschecks tags with the overall semantics of a page to consider its relevancy. The number one SEO recommendation for professionnals now is to remain extremely consistent between content and tags. Recently, Google has notably mentionned that "usefulness" of the pages was their top priority.
In your case that probably means that with the tag "instruction for masturbation", you've employed semantics Google estimates from billions of past searches that the users are actually looking for. And because SEO is not only a personal thing, but a constant competition, it's probable that you first appeared behind pages Google considered less relevant but more established, and slowly climbed the rank in competitive evaluation as users kept searching.
Another parameter likely to be involved is the lack of commercialization. Google heavily favors websites that aren't trying to sell anything, so that there's more of an interest for commercial websites to actually pay Google to appear high in web searches. As the page you mention is non-commercial in an heavily commercial domain, it probably helped you a lot to climb in ranking.
As to how to do it again: Your guess is as good as mine. The main element of SEO tends to be luck, you only really know if it works when it has worked.
Contemporary SE use literally hundreds of factors to order their searches. So it has generally become a "best guess" thing as to what actually works. What we do know for sure is that Google crosschecks tags with the overall semantics of a page to consider its relevancy. The number one SEO recommendation for professionnals now is to remain extremely consistent between content and tags. Recently, Google has notably mentionned that "usefulness" of the pages was their top priority.
In your case that probably means that with the tag "instruction for masturbation", you've employed semantics Google estimates from billions of past searches that the users are actually looking for. And because SEO is not only a personal thing, but a constant competition, it's probable that you first appeared behind pages Google considered less relevant but more established, and slowly climbed the rank in competitive evaluation as users kept searching.
Another parameter likely to be involved is the lack of commercialization. Google heavily favors websites that aren't trying to sell anything, so that there's more of an interest for commercial websites to actually pay Google to appear high in web searches. As the page you mention is non-commercial in an heavily commercial domain, it probably helped you a lot to climb in ranking.
As to how to do it again: Your guess is as good as mine. The main element of SEO tends to be luck, you only really know if it works when it has worked.
Matriarch
I've spent over a decade, off and on, studying SEO.
If you PM me your site URL I will take a look for you.
Despite all the mysticism (deliberately spread by people employed by SEO companies), SEO actually boils down to 2 things essentially, content, and inbound links. On-page factors like page titles, meta descriptions, keywords etc., are secondary.
You most probably have a link from an authority site to your blog, which shot it up the rankings as you've now gained "google trust". The article may have been published on a big site, and given you credit (and a link).
If you PM me your site URL I will take a look for you.
Despite all the mysticism (deliberately spread by people employed by SEO companies), SEO actually boils down to 2 things essentially, content, and inbound links. On-page factors like page titles, meta descriptions, keywords etc., are secondary.
You most probably have a link from an authority site to your blog, which shot it up the rankings as you've now gained "google trust". The article may have been published on a big site, and given you credit (and a link).
Rookie Scribe
Analytics is a good idea. My company reviews web traffic stats every month. They can tell you how people are finding your website, what phrases they are searching for which result in a hit, their geographical location, which pages on your site they view, how long they spend on there before clicking off, e.t.c.
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Matriarch
Although G.A. does give you some useful information, here's an example of its failings as a tool to give you the most vital information:
A site like backlinkwatch.com will help you see who links to your site. If you spot something like cosmopolitan.com linking to you, you'll know where your authority boost has come from.
A site like backlinkwatch.com will help you see who links to your site. If you spot something like cosmopolitan.com linking to you, you'll know where your authority boost has come from.
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So, as SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is an increasingly big part of my job, so I can try to answer a couple of questions. First, interestingly, the number of users clicking on the specific link has actually relatively little to do with its final ranking, so you hardly ever "climb" among the pages as a result of that. the weight of users was largely diminished (along with a few other factors like number of incoming links to a page and meta tags) precisley in order to make SEO more difficult. Webmasters could generally "buy" either incoming traffic, massive redirection links or lie in the meta-tags in order to fool early SEO.
Contemporary SE use literally hundreds of factors to order their searches. So it has generally become a "best guess" thing as to what actually works. What we do know for sure is that Google crosschecks tags with the overall semantics of a page to consider its relevancy. The number one SEO recommendation for professionnals now is to remain extremely consistent between content and tags. Recently, Google has notably mentionned that "usefulness" of the pages was their top priority.
In your case that probably means that with the tag "instruction for masturbation", you've employed semantics Google estimates from billions of past searches that the users are actually looking for. And because SEO is not only a personal thing, but a constant competition, it's probable that you first appeared behind pages Google considered less relevant but more established, and slowly climbed the rank in competitive evaluation as users kept searching.
Another parameter likely to be involved is the lack of commercialization. Google heavily favors websites that aren't trying to sell anything, so that there's more of an interest for commercial websites to actually pay Google to appear high in web searches. As the page you mention is non-commercial in an heavily commercial domain, it probably helped you a lot to climb in ranking.
As to how to do it again: Your guess is as good as mine. The main element of SEO tends to be luck, you only really know if it works when it has worked.
Thank you. This is very helpful.
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Ultimately you make a website for users, not for search engines. Descriptive titles, URLs and link texts are useful for both users and search engines to determine what content is to be expected. A "click here" link text does not do that for instance, neither does a title like "Gretchen" probably, though for a story somewhat different rules apply than for articles I suppose (one being more poetic, the other more descriptive).
Most of all, like Nicola said, it's content and incoming links. Your blog post's incoming links probably increased over time, which may have improved your ranking, especially if the pages where these links are coming from rank high themselves.
Most of all, like Nicola said, it's content and incoming links. Your blog post's incoming links probably increased over time, which may have improved your ranking, especially if the pages where these links are coming from rank high themselves.
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