Does anyone else feel like checking your ranking for a particular keyword (like oes tsetnoc while being in this contest) could be a bad thing? The more you check, the more variance you see in a short time period, the more unnecessary stress you bring upon yourself, and the more defeated you may start to feel?
Yesterday, I started the day off on a positive note that the site had been indexed and was in the #2 position on Google. But then, I checked later and found that I had been moved down to #9 thanks to some recent new entries. And now, I’ve been blasted off the map it seems.
Although I’m not defeated, and I know what to do to get things moving in the right direction again, it seems like the kind of thing that happens when you’re dieting, and you get a little obsessed with the scale. You start out the day feeling like you’re moving in the right direction, then you have lunch and it all goes to heck, especially with a digital scale that shows the .5 fluctuations. Then you feel like your day is lost and you eat something crappy for dinner, which means the next day you have to fight your way back to your goal again.
So I’ve decided I’m going to do what I do for optimization , but at the same time not over do it (as I want this to look natural and not accidentally get myself penalized or banned), and check my progress weekly instead of daily. Because daily (or several times per day) could drive me batty!
What do you think? Do you check your keyword rankings often or occasionally? Do you think it helps or hurts?
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Hey, your experiment is interesting.
I will put link of your blog in my blog, section Recommended blogs. Could you put a link of my blog on yours?
And I your follower in Google Friend Connect. Could you follow my blog from Google Friend Connect?
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And yes, it is better to check rating weekly than daily. If you check rating too often, you lose too much time, and time is important resource.
Mark@InterestingWebs´s last blog ..Make your own comic strip online
Eh, I think checking to much is a bad thing but I do it anyway lol. I always get stressed out or in a bad mood to see my site moves down a google page or something like that.
So overall I think you should just check once a week. Or mabye even once every 3 days. Something like that.
Hi I wish you luck in the contest and will be following you in the steps you are taking to get to the top.
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you luck in the contest and will be following
Speaking about my personal blog, I think it’s not good to check keywords on a daily bais because this is time wast. I would spend this time in other valuable stuff like concentrating on the contents, naturaly linking, etc.
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I commented on that day when you said you’re in number 2 spot but when I’ve checked it you are no. 9 already.
Funny I can’t find this blog in Google results. I’m page 10 already and no sign of this url. But your Kikolani blog is at no. 7.
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Patience and hard work will pay, just continue to update your blog regularly and keep adding backlinks..
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