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How many items are listed on Is it Keto? I'm not seeing results for my first two searches Pickles, and Mayonnaise. Also its not imminently clear after doing a

How many items are listed on Is it Keto? I'm not seeing results for my first two searches Pickles, and Mayonnaise. Also its not imminently clear after doing a search that the search bar will let you do another "Is it Keto" search because of the change in style. Did you do a "Is X Keto" keyword search in Adwords to come up with your initial list of foods?

mtlynch 8y ago
Thanks for reading, and for the good questions! >How many items are listed on Is it Keto? It's currently at 131 foods. At the beginning, I deliberately made browsing hard to obscure the fact that the database was so small. Now that it's a bit bigger, I'm considering making it possible to browse by category. >I'm not seeing results for my first two searches Pickles, and Mayonnaise. Yeah, those are in the queue. My writer actually wrote a draft of Mayonnaise but I still need to edit it. Mayonnaise is the #21 most 404'ed page and pickles is #45. But it's a long tail. "Beans" is the #1 most 404'ed and it's only 1.7% of 404s. >Also its not imminently clear after doing a search that the search bar will let you do another "Is it Keto" search because of the change in style. Good point. I'll tweak the UI to make it more obvious that the user can keep searching. >Did you do a "Is X Keto" keyword search in Adwords to come up with your initial list of foods? I do it a few different ways. At the beginning, I would just look in Facebook groups and wait until someone asked "is X keto?" then I'd quickly write the article and link it. Then I started looking at which pages got the most 404s and I'd write those. Now that the Twitter account is more popular, I have more control over what people read (as opposed to only reacting to what users search for) because I can drive people to a page by sharing it on Twitter. And if a product is keto and I @-mention the manufacturer, sometimes they'll RT it and give it more exposure, so I look for manufactured foods that are keto friendly. Because for something like "lettuce," it's hard to make money because they have to click the link, then click something else that's keto-friendly and that they can buy on Amazon. For SEO, I also do look at Google Trends and look for "X keto" keywords where there isn't already a good result. A query like "is xylitol keto" is hard to win at in SEO because a lot of big keto blogs already have dedicated articles to it. But I think Is It Keto gets top spot for "Is Propel Keto?" because none of the bigger sites ever bothered to write an article about such a specific product.
- ghostbrainalpha 8y ago
  Thanks for taking the time to crush this response. I'll post your site in my Keto groups whenever I can.
- ghostbrainalpha 8y ago
  Hey sorry this is a few days later, but I've been thinking about your site a lot. I think eventually you probably want to automatically build pages, just by scanning carb counts from a nutritional databases.... But as long as you are doing these high effort manual posts, an amazing feature I would love to see is a "suggested replacement item" for things that aren't Keto. So if someone searches "Is Kombucha Keto", your page could say "No probably not Keto, but consider this probiotic drink from Kevita which is very similar but without as many carbs."

mtlynch 8y ago

Thanks for reading, and for the good questions! >How many items are listed on Is it Keto? It's currently at 131 foods. At the beginning, I deliberately made browsing hard to obscure the fact that the database was so small. Now that it's a bit bigger, I'm considering making it possible to browse by category. >I'm not seeing results for my first two searches Pickles, and Mayonnaise. Yeah, those are in the queue. My writer actually wrote a draft of Mayonnaise but I still need to edit it. Mayonnaise is the #21 most 404'ed page and pickles is #45. But it's a long tail. "Beans" is the #1 most 404'ed and it's only 1.7% of 404s. >Also its not imminently clear after doing a search that the search bar will let you do another "Is it Keto" search because of the change in style. Good point. I'll tweak the UI to make it more obvious that the user can keep searching. >Did you do a "Is X Keto" keyword search in Adwords to come up with your initial list of foods? I do it a few different ways. At the beginning, I would just look in Facebook groups and wait until someone asked "is X keto?" then I'd quickly write the article and link it. Then I started looking at which pages got the most 404s and I'd write those. Now that the Twitter account is more popular, I have more control over what people read (as opposed to only reacting to what users search for) because I can drive people to a page by sharing it on Twitter. And if a product is keto and I @-mention the manufacturer, sometimes they'll RT it and give it more exposure, so I look for manufactured foods that are keto friendly. Because for something like "lettuce," it's hard to make money because they have to click the link, then click something else that's keto-friendly and that they can buy on Amazon. For SEO, I also do look at Google Trends and look for "X keto" keywords where there isn't already a good result. A query like "is xylitol keto" is hard to win at in SEO because a lot of big keto blogs already have dedicated articles to it. But I think Is It Keto gets top spot for "Is Propel Keto?" because none of the bigger sites ever bothered to write an article about such a specific product.

ghostbrainalpha 8y ago
Thanks for taking the time to crush this response. I'll post your site in my Keto groups whenever I can.
ghostbrainalpha 8y ago
Hey sorry this is a few days later, but I've been thinking about your site a lot. I think eventually you probably want to automatically build pages, just by scanning carb counts from a nutritional databases.... But as long as you are doing these high effort manual posts, an amazing feature I would love to see is a "suggested replacement item" for things that aren't Keto. So if someone searches "Is Kombucha Keto", your page could say "No probably not Keto, but consider this probiotic drink from Kevita which is very similar but without as many carbs."