Article Writing Tips | A startling Xomba discovery!
As most of you know I’ve been singing the praises of Xomba for about two months now, and, without a doubt have seen significant traffic increases because of it.
My Squidoo lenses have much greater rank because of my Xomblurbs, and, as you Squidoo users out there know, it’s easily traceable right on the Squidoo dashboard.
Now one thing I love doing is analyzing things, seeing what works best and making adjustments whenever I can to maximize the effect of whatever I do. I hate doing extra work. And, as my drill Sergeant said to me long ago…. “If you don’t plan on doing it right, plan on doing it again”
Those words ring true here, as I was analyzing the structure of the much loved Xomblurb I noticed something…
To me, they just aren’t worth doing, SEO wise. The Xombyte is much more effective.
Look at the photo below of the SEO optimization tool analysis of one of my Xomblurbs.
Argh, no description or keyword field...
As you can see the title is dead on. But there is no description tag and not keyword tag. This is terrible. So once again it’s not really worth it to kill yourself over inserting keywords into the keyword field. The keywords are probably for internal searches and have no effect on the SEO placement of the ‘blurb.
What you can’t see here is the keyword density, I was truly shocked at this. I used my target keyword 4 times in 7 lines of text. My 3 word keyword was #3 in the keyword list which is horrible.
Why is this, well that’s simple. Every Xomba page has tons of other text on it, including a listing of the most recent Xomblurbs and Xombytes, all of which have keywords in their titles as well.
Now, I’m not saying for one second the Xomblurb is useless, quite the opposite. It has it’s place as a quick and easy traffic driver. Xomba has ‘no-follow- links so you won’t get any SEO goodness from the Xomblurb, but possibly some traffic.
In my opinion the Xombyte is a better choice for me moving forward. It suffers from the lack of description and keyword field as well, but with it’s greater length you can pack way more content (and keywords) into it so in my opinion it’ll be more effective long term.
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Reader Comments
Norm, I believe in the power of Good Karma. I’ve learned a lot browsing your site. I still have a bit of brain lock, but I made sure to edit one of my Squidoo lenses. I linked your site as a resource. Hope it helps some. – Phil
Meta Tags aren’t used by Google anymore. The Google search bots read the text and don’t really weigh meta tags. Keywords are in the body and that’s what is important.
I’ve seen people make 20,40 even a 100 dollars in one day/week with Xomblurbs.
Believe it or not.
Hi Nick, thanks for stopping by, and thanks for the info. I’ve read on some sites that they matter, and on others that they don’t. I decided that it couldn’t hurt to consider them since they are being used in some way by google. As far as the Xomblurb earnings, I absolutely believe it, I myself have made some nice cash there recently, with not much content too. I have big plans for Xomba in the coming weeks and I can’t wait to see the updates that are planned. I read a bit about it on the Xomba blog, looks like really good stuff!
I love Xomba. I have been a member for a while and never really earned much but then last month I started focusing more on popular keywords and my earnings started to increase
I’d guesstimate about 30% of my adsense income comes from Xomba, and not from the articles but from the blurbs. Good stuff indeed!!