What's SEO?
Create a blog and people will visit it, right? - No:(.
When I’m in a good creative mood, I work on my small pet project: a mood tracking app. There are lots of them in the stores, but not so many free apps are any good even for basic functionality. Of course, if you are ready to pay for subscription, there are very nice options, but almost no one offers a good app for free.
Like for any pet project, the work is being done extremely slow with many interruptions, but I’m fine with this:).
In parallel, I had an idea to start a blog where I’d review various mood tracking apps with the hope to also mention mine when it’s ready. My idea was that my app would be among the few free ones and would stand out even with fair and honest review from my side. This blog (in my mind) would start bringing some visitors who would try different apps and hopefully download mine as well.
I write 1-3 posts per month, use Yoast SEO plugin for Wordpress that says my “SEO” (whatever it means) is ok-ish, but it seems that Google doesn’t want to show the blog to people. I get only single-digits search impressions and that’s it. My assumption was that it will change over time, but the result is still the same. I’m as far from SEO area as it’s possible, so decided to ask AI for help:).
It made some general suggestions that are already implemented. Like making sure the website is indexable, added to Google Search Console, has clear headers etc. But it seems that it’s not enough for Google to consider the blog trustworthy or something. The only thing I’m missing from the general SEO suggestion is having some “backlinks”, i.e. other websites that link to mine.
I definitely don’t want to spam any Reddits or websites with such links, so let’s try to have the one and only backing here on my blog:). It seems fair that I can post it here and let’s if it helps Google to find my website.
The URL is https://moodtrackers.org.
There are two main categories with free and paid app reviews to check out:
If you can check it and let me know what can be improved there, I would be glad to here it as well!