018. You know what they say… Ignorance is bliss.

We made a lot of SEO mistakes when we started Create and Go.  But for a while, we were blissfully unaware of those mistakes. 

For a long time, we didn’t even care about SEO. Pinterest and YouTube traffic were enough for us.

But when we did start caring… yikes, that was a tough road to go down.

It became apparent pretty quickly that some things were just wrong. 

And it took us a full year to really figure them out and get on the right path again. 

We owe most of this credit to Noah Riggs.

Noah didn’t have any SEO experience or background before he started working for us. He learned all of it along the way -- working with Alex to right these wrongs.

After a year of deep-diving, hard, focused work learning everything they could about SEO, Noah and Alex were able to:

• finally figure out where we went wrong, 
• fix the problems, 
• and boost our SEO traffic exponentially.  

It wasn’t easy, but for us, it was SO worth it.

This is part 1 of a 2-part series on our SEO journey. In the next episode, Noah will return again to give us the biggest SEO mistakes he sees people making along with a couple of the specific mistakes that WE made along the way.

In this episode, Part 1, Noah and I are discussing:

• Our SEO journey
• Who Noah is, and how he helped us fix our SEO problems
• Why we finally turned our focus to SEO
• Why we wish we had focused on SEO sooner
• Whether or not you need an SEO strategy for your blog
• What to expect in the next episode

For additional resources and show notes, visit the episode podcast page on our website.

Resources and Mentions:

• Related Post: Blog SEO: 10 Step Beginner’s Guide to Ranking Blog Posts
• Related Video: SEO for Beginners: 10 Steps to get More Organic Traffic to Your Blog
• Course Mentioned: SEO Blueprint for Bloggers
• Tutorial: How to Start a Successful Blog
• Start your first blog with our Free 5-Day Blogging Bootcamp

For more information and resources, check out the podcast page on our website.