I've
mentioned before that I use stat counters to see how many people
visit my blog, what posts they read, and how they found it. A couple
of years ago, I was a little surprised to see that someone found my
blog while searching for porn. The visitor had done a Google search
on phrase “humiliation
porn pictures”
which turned up my post, “Photo
Gaffe or Major Porn Humiliation?”
I
got a little chuckle and thought about how disappointed the visitor
might have been when he realized he'd landed on a Christian blog. On
the other hand, I also realized that these are people I want to have
reading my blog. In half jest, I mused if I should start including
choice key words in the titles of some of my posts with the hope it
would turn up in more Google searches. I discussed this in a short
post which I intentionally titled, “No
XXX IMAGES found here!” Sure enough, over the next couple of
weeks, I began receiving hits on that post from people searching for
“XXX images.”
After
a while, the traffic to that post died off and it was business as usual. All of a sudden, though, I've started having a lot of
traffic to that post again. My stat counter shows again that it's
from people searching the term “XXX images.” Last week, it was
the second most read post on my blog.
By the way, the most searched for term was on the origin of life which I intend to talk in an upcoming post.
I'm
not sure what has happened to cause traffic to that post to spike. I do know
that Google tends to rank sites found in a search by their relevance
and popularity. This means that each time someone clicks on my blog
while looking for “XXX images”, the more likely it is to be
ranked higher in the next search. You will notice that I've also
included the term “XXX images” in the title of this post. I've
also used the term “XXX images” several times in this text which
makes this post seem even more relevant in a search for “XXX images.”
For the next few weeks at least, my blog should see even more
visitors looking for “XXX images” than did visit the last couple
of weeks.
Getting
people to visit my blog hasn't been a real problem. There are
typically between 3,500 – 5,000 page views here each month. I just
wish I could figure out a way to get these new visitors to stay a
while.
2 comments:
What you need is to incorporate porn search terms subtly into more conventional Christian blog titles: e.g. "XXX Pieces of Silver -- Did Judas Sin More by Taking Payment in Graven IMAGES?"
Steven,
You might have noticed that my, "no XXX IMAGES FOUND HERE" post has moved into the #1 spot of popular articles (see the right margin). As I write this, 60 people have clicked on that post this week.
Judging from Statcounter, most of those visitors are one-click wonders - they come and go without reading anything else. I did have one visitor (from Pakistan, no less) who has visited 3 times. I'm not sure if he's read anything else or just keeps clicking the same link, forgetting he'd already been there.
I'll still keep trying to get them to visit and hope they stay.
God bless!!
RKBentley
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