Comments on: Understanding the starting point http://www.chuqui.com/2009/11/understanding-the-starting-point/ I'll keep reinventing myself until I get it right. (3.2 2009-11-21) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:12:54 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: sethdillingham http://www.chuqui.com/2009/11/understanding-the-starting-point/comment-page-1/#comment-3179 sethdillingham Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:54:54 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=5053#comment-3179 I think you'll be surprised at just how much of a difference some SEO makes.<br><br>However, a much bigger deal than SEO is incoming links from relevant sites. Some personal issues precluded, nay obliterated, most of my desire to write. However, last year my weblog was doing pretty well: many thousands of visitors per month, 10K-50K page views per day.<br><br>My biggest driver of traffic has always been Google (going all the way back to 2000), but it's not because of SEO: it's because I have (or had) a LOT of relevant incoming links. Links to the home page, links to my individual articles, links to some of my categories. Cyclists linked to my bike journal. Web developers and programmers linked to my stories about regular expressions or javascript or CMS (Conversant). Friends link to the site.<br><br>Nothing tells a search engine that your pages matter like other people actually saying, "his pages matter."<br><br>I don't know how much oomph my site has any more, but I'm definitely going to point to you this evening or tomorrow. Your previous article, especially, was quite thought provoking. I think you'll be surprised at just how much of a difference some SEO makes.

However, a much bigger deal than SEO is incoming links from relevant sites. Some personal issues precluded, nay obliterated, most of my desire to write. However, last year my weblog was doing pretty well: many thousands of visitors per month, 10K-50K page views per day.

My biggest driver of traffic has always been Google (going all the way back to 2000), but it's not because of SEO: it's because I have (or had) a LOT of relevant incoming links. Links to the home page, links to my individual articles, links to some of my categories. Cyclists linked to my bike journal. Web developers and programmers linked to my stories about regular expressions or javascript or CMS (Conversant). Friends link to the site.

Nothing tells a search engine that your pages matter like other people actually saying, “his pages matter.”

I don't know how much oomph my site has any more, but I'm definitely going to point to you this evening or tomorrow. Your previous article, especially, was quite thought provoking.

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