By: Context is king – link for victory

Context is king – link for victory — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:27:32 +0000

[...] Life’s not like that, however. Most of my readers have no clue what I was thinking this time last year. Most of your readers too will come to your blog posts from a variety of sources, and may not regularly read your work. If you’re on Lib Dem Blogs, a particularly eye-catching title may draw in readers that haven’t seen your output before. And the more you write, the longer you are around, and the better you work with search engines, the more people will find your blog from bizarre search terms that have nothing whatsoever to do with what you are actually writing about. (Fully three quarters of my traffic is from search engine referrals, and of those, the majority have landed on me from a search about “number one when I was born” which links to a post I wrote three years ago. Either that or pear crumble.) [...]

Comments on: Pear Crumble

By: Context is king – link for victory