{"id":20505,"date":"2019-11-18T20:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20505"},"modified":"2019-11-18T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:19:17","slug":"first-time-sunflower-success-diminishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/my-experiences\/first-time-sunflower-success-diminishes\/","title":{"rendered":"First time Sunflower Success Diminishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20473\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18.9-025-1020x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18.9-025-1020x1024.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18.9-025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18.9-025-768x771.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2008 a google search for sunflowers would have found gardeners tips in the top 3 results. Now it would be luck to be found in the top 3 million. We are number 115th for the more specific &#8216;sunflowers gardeners tips&#8217; as <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/tips-for-growing-sunflowers\/\">Tips for Easy Sunflowers<\/a> from 2015.<\/p>\n<h3>So why are the mighty fallen?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>We have not kept up with search engine etiquette, metrics and optimisation techniques preferring to have our fun with with 2000+ somewhat random posts.<\/li>\n<li>There are a great number of tipster sites and commercial businesses whose need for\u00c2\u00a0 traffic drives them to focus and stylise there offerings.<\/li>\n<li>Google algorithms and analytics are far superior to those of 10 years ago.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>We were not mighty and do not claim mightyness yet but we hope to keep sowing, growing and gardening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10973\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/sunflowers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/sunflowers.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/sunflowers-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Sunflower Titan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008 a google search for sunflowers would have found gardeners tips in the top 3 results. Now it would be luck to be found in the top 3 million. We are number 115th for the more specific &#8216;sunflowers gardeners tips&#8217; as Tips for Easy Sunflowers from 2015. So why are the mighty fallen? We have not kept up with search engine etiquette, metrics and optimisation techniques preferring to have our fun with with 2000+ somewhat random posts. There are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/my-experiences\/first-time-sunflower-success-diminishes\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20507,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20505\/revisions\/20507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}