How to determine if your SEO/Marketing is working

What steps should I take.

[domfos]

Hi, I just started a blog at the beginning of July. My goal is to set up a few websites and generate some income from them.

I've embarked on a project on my personal blog (if u want to see it, click on my profile) - basically to 'Make my blog better in 31 days' for the month of August. To be honest, I'm amazed at how much interest it's generated so far.

I'm using this project to learn blogging, SEO, Marketing, etc... skills.

My question is this? What direction should I take at the end of my project?

I was thinking maybe leveraging the traction which my blog/project to my other websites.

I would be really grateful for advice. I'm not even sure if I'm posting in the right forum!

thanks heaps
Dominic.

[topr8]

>> 'Make my blog better in 31 days' for the month of August.

>>My question is this? What direction should I take at the end of my project?

why don't you wait until the end of the 31 days, if you work hard at it during that time it should be pretty clear to you at that point.

[mack]

To an extent seo can be a bit of "trial and error" What you should do is gauge how effective your ideas have been over the set period of time.

Then if things have not gone as you would have hoped, you can fine tune your ideas. The correct, or best method will varry a lot from site to site, so in this case there really is no magic solution.

You just need to monitor your progress and make changes accordingly.

Mack.