Paul said the life of the published articles, news stories, and other stories, created videos, and photos will depend on the online audience. The online audience is no other than the online surfers and the search engine crawlers. They are the online judges to determine how effective are the articles. For this reason, you bloggers, and other online writers should write what you know and should always remember your audience. They would help you boost traffic and possibly make your articles, and other stuff viral online.For Paul, it is healthy and productive to always use the social networks available online to promote articles and other stuff. However, it is also important to write and to publish what you know and to remember who is your online audience - they are the Net surfers and search engine crawlers.
At the time Paul started his blogging activities online with the different hosting sites like WordPress, Blogger, Weebly, and other sharing revenue sites like Wikinut, Triond, HubPages, and ExpertsColumn - the importance of a sitemap was not his concern. He just loved to write articles containing different subjects and to publish them online.
However, at the time he started running his own website, he has to learn the proper way how to communicate the search engines. And one of the many ways he learned from SEO experts is to create a sitemap for his site. He also has to ask from his Google forum group - how to create a sitemap and how does sitemap work?
It is said that sitemap suggests to visitors what page to hang on found on that particular site and it also tells search engines about the organization of the site content. And the presence of a sitemap on Web site serves as a helping tool for online surfers and for the online crawlers to navigate easier from a Website page to another page of the content found on that particular Website.
He also referred to Wikipedia regarding this matter. The site has recorded two popular versions of a sitemap. One is an XML Sitemap which is a structured format that a user doesn't need to see, but it tells the search engine about the pages in a site, their relative importance to each other, and how often they are updated. Second is HTML sitemaps which are designed for the user to help them find content on the page and don't need to include each and every sub-page. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.
Paul said the above heading of this write-up is the title of the article he published at Triond. It was published on January 17, 2015, at HealthMad, one of the publishing sites powered by Triond that year - after he revised its title as advised by Triond editors that said the title should contain at least three relevant keyword tags. On the first day of publication, the article garnered 562 views.
However, the next day January 18, 2015, the article received 10,907 views and then followed 11,171 views on January 19, 11,233 views on January 20, 12,202 views on January 21, 13,998 views on January 22, 13,720 views on January 23, and on January 24, 2015, it received 13,207 views, and at the end of January 2015, the article (Sitemap Guides Surfers, Ways to communicate Search Engines) garnered a total number of 86,104 views.
In that article, Paul simply used some of the stand-alone pages that include short descriptions to tell his would-be visitors and online crawlers what every page is all about and to show the mechanic and ways how to guide his visitors to a certain page content as well as how the Web site communicates search engines.
Of course, it really takes time to write it and to complete it, said Paul. He has to re-checked every detail especially for the back-links, photos, and other information needed for his presentation as part of the marketing strategy. For him, it was history because it was his first published article that garnered the highest views ever out of the more than 500 articles he has published at Triond since he started writing for the site in August 2010.
Also, read my other published articles
But In the quarter of 2014, Paul decided to stop writing for Triond after he found out that most of the articles he published there have received only minimal views and traffic, added that the site has changed some of its writing rules and guidelines, such as the approval time for the article submitted for publication takes it for three days and above and Triond editors have enforced its contributors to inject at least three keywords tags on every article title.
Of course, Paul understands that those new policies applied by Triond are to improve its site’s position on search results as well as to help attract online surfers and to improve its communication strategy with search engines and to avoid the penalty of Google updates that until to date still on watching and penalizing sites that published plagiarized items or copied items from other authors and those sites engaged of cloaking practice to increase potential views. (To be continued in part 20)
