Tim Kloos - April 29th, 2013
We've recently been working on the website onthisdateinhistory.net. We've been working on the design, development, and SEO. It's been an interesting experience.
When we first started out working on the SEO, our first appearance on google was on page 2 or 3 when searching for "On this date in history". Slowly but surely, we began working on SEO techniques and have graduated to page 1 - 6th from the top. Oddly, on Yahoo! and Bing, we don't even show up on the first maybe five pages. I say this is odd because there are other sites that show up that are completely irrelevant to the search terms. Actually, there may be more I can do to try and target bing and yahoo!. Hmmm...
We've also added a new page for references like "March History Facts" and others. This will allow people to search our database for historical happenings in unique ways.
There's still quite a bit of work to do to make this site better, but at least we're getting some rewards for our efforts and some traffic.