It was messy when the blog did not had much posts, but things started to work out better as more content was published and it was able to find more related posts.

Btw, a nice blog you got there

http://www.ChicagoHotBlog.com

There are few articles that I have interest of keeping them up on the serps, and hence I manage to build some links for those posts from time to time from different sources, but mainly people link to those articles if they like them which keeps them up. The fact is that most new posts will rank high due to the “Google dance” and than get their original position, so to rank them higher it needs backlinks (same as with the homepage), so the only way to keep them high in the SERPs is building backlinks.

Where did you get your Related Posts plugin? The W-A-S-A-B-I one does not seem to exist anymore.

Also, how do you keep your articles from dropping in the SERPs over time? How often do you need to link to older articles to keep them alive? I am posting about some events that are several months in the future, but want to start to get some traffic for them…

What I wanted to highlight is that SEO is very closely related to math, the amount of inbound links the homepage has and the PR of the page, and than how you spread the power of your page (i.e. how many outgoing links you got from the homepage to external sites and to internal pages). In this example I showed how I lost rankings because I weakened up the homepage by having too many outgoing links which were pointing to inner pages, and now that I diminished the number of outgoing links the homepage got back to its old position in the SERPs.

Hope this clears up the doubts and the miss-understanding I previously created with the maths example.

The changes I have lately made (which are just a few) are those same changes one should have done since the beginning, but as people like proof I thought to start the blog all from a wrong corner and when the blog will get the age, power and readers to be able to run the experiment in front of everyones eyes.

Tracking the outgoing links was a mistake I made, it is all related to math, 5+5=10 and thats the power of your site, than you need to share that power with the rest of the pages you have in the blog, but if you overspread that power you will weaken the homepage.

If i would have to give results as to how my search engine rankings are performing after the changes (even tho the search engines haven’t completely crawled and made the changes of all pages) I would tell you that I have increased the traffic that lands visitors to inner pages to 100% and on several pages, not just one or two (well indeed, lost rankings for one page, but will see how I can resolve that).