Earlier today I heard back from another position that I had I applied for. It wasn’t publicly advertised, never stopped me from applying before even when I was in the corporate setting. I thought why now. I enjoy the website. I read it several times weekly so I thought I would put out some feelers.
Surprisingly the website owner got back to me the same day, and one of the questions she asked was how could I enhance their website. I thought about that for a moment, had the perfect response, wrote it down in my email and on a whim I told her to do a search for my name and a specific keyword. Naturally, the keywords matched what her website was about.
In her response, back to me she told me how impressed she was with the amount of content she saw attributed to my name and that keyword. She also said she did other searches using different keywords, and my name was appearing on the first page. I wasn’t expecting her to do that but I found it interesting.
The thing is I’ve always known keywords were important, I could see that when I would occasionally peruse my website stats seeing what brought people to my website. It really stuck home how powerful certain words can be on the internet. Even so, I really didn’t do too much with it until I received my first blogging job.
With some blogging positions a writer can receive a significant boost in their pay if they use keywords effectively and of course write content that will make people want to read what they have written. It made sense to start focusing not only writing good content but also think about keywords and actually start to use them. Has it paid off? Yes, it didn’t happen overnight since I had to work on building content at the website but in time more people were being brought to my articles because of the words I use.
Now that I think about it the same can definitely be said about monetizing some of my websites it didn’t happen overnight but in time my efforts paid off. Of course, it helps that I write about topics that I truly love so for the websites that I monetize it doesn’t feel like work and the keywords I use don’t seem out of place. It flows naturally as it should.
Regarding the new job, it’s a temporary assignment lasting about three months the pay is excellent and the experience I’ll receive is priceless.
As a child my parents, especially my father, would tell me that at times you cannot sit on the sidelines and wait for things to happen many times if you want to be noticed, you have to get out there and make those opportunities happen for you. It’s definitely a motto I live by.
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