Blogging For The Search Engines
They call it SEO; idolized, magnified, and glorified by webmasters, internet marketeers and many bloggers. It becomes the ultimate goal that even a deceptive posts (or link) is done to achieve optimized keywords. Many come forward to declare they are expert on such field, claiming success on such and such keywords. Others just do it for fun, calling themselves enthusiasts, rather than experts or consultants. Many ebooks about SEO are also distributed for free. I even have two of them in my laptop.
The wikipedia entry on SEO says
“Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results or the higher it “ranks”, the more searchers will visit that site. SEO can also target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.”
I’m not surprised why none of my last 100 visitors, are from the search engines. I’m not optimizing anything. No, not yet. The SEO experiment I did on my other blogs was quite successful as it brought traffic I never experienced before. But it was short-lived. My next attempts were seemed to be quashed by the search engines as it took days for my posts to appear on blog search for specific keywords that are even on the title of my posts. Or maybe the search engines are just biased against blogs on free-hosted sites. I really don’t know. But I hope I’ll find it out soon.
A friend and I did a few SEO experiments. We even boasted of our keywords wherein we are on the top 3. But something deep within me is pierced slowly. Why would I optimize popular keywords when I don’t have any business with it but just to divert a percentage of the search traffic to my blog? Am I just frustrating the searchers? Or am I just jittery on this trade?
I would be glad to hear your thoughts.
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April 22nd, 2008 at 11:30 pm
But SEO can also get us in trouble with google
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:50 am
that is why others conceal the trick as much as possible.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Great article. Interested in a link exchange?
http://codfedchatnet.blogspot.com/2008/04/seo-and-deep-linking.html
April 26th, 2008 at 1:42 am
Thanks for the visit, taylor. you’ve got nice experiments there in your blog.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Blogging for search engines would go well with adsense as you can making your searches think that those links might give them better results than what they find in their blog. It may sound evil but a lot of bloggers (me too) are doing this. ^_^
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 am
On your laptop, eh?
Looks like we’re gonna be sharing ebooks on the next EB then,
I didn’t do anything but when I Google my name it’s on the third page now, which makes sense because I haven’t been optimizing anything right now. A couple of weeks ago it went as far up as second on the search. The first one was for the Wilhelmina models. Just shows my name isn’t that popular. Haha
May 4th, 2008 at 8:51 am
allen, these keywords optimization without a real product selling or service, are aimed at earning money from ppc. you lose a reader, but earns some cents.
wilhelmina, you can start optimizing your name. but it’s a far shot coz you someone else owns the domain. but if the keyword is with a Miss, you are no.1.