I think every blogger, if they looked at their stats, will tell you that they have some pretty weird keywords getting them traffic. I mean, Kitty posted about how she has traffic coming from such random things like puffy coat fetish, CHEETAH FLAPPER PALETTE FETICHE, and pant disco spandex. To me that sounds pretty odd, and since she posted about it, I am sure it sounds odd to her as well. Mine are pretty far fetched, but no where near as that. I mean of course since I run the fanlistings I get keywords like Aria Giovanni, Sasha Grey, Cad-Comic, and others for that stuff, but then I get some pretty random ones such as laptop battery in nj, http://www.guaranteedlists, smoochcom, and a bunch for the Wolverine movie script leak.
Some bloggers like Felicia tries to draw the traffic to her using keywords from the most recent popular searches on the internet. She has named posts and posted about some of the hot topics searched for in recent months like Sarah Palin, bees, and sex. It is a different approach, not sure if that would fall on the line of blackhat per sey, but it is definitely greyhat.
Whether we try and force keywords to our sites or we just acknowledge the strange keywords that come naturally to our site, I don’t think any blogger or site has a problem with the traffic it brings. Most keywords may be strange for your blog, some may not be considering the way the search engines puts words together, but seeing random things together may look weird and fun. Either way I think we should embrace the strange and native keywords that we each try and strive for and not try and differenciate from the strange ones because they aren’t our niche.
Downtown Disney is different from Disneyland by all aspects is that it’s a place for markets, jazz festivals and what not. Disneyland has the rides and shops for little kids. Downtown Disney has shops for both young and old.
According to your blog, you make a good point. As long as it brings us traffic to our blogs who cares right?
Exactly 🙂
I can’t say that I’ve ever noticed that, lol.
I always read the keywords that lead people to my site. It’s quite amusing for the most part.
I have never noticed what brings people to my site either. I need to figure out how to check this out and see what people are searching for. It must be so interesting to see.
I keep a list of all the keywords people use to end up on my site. Some of them are very weird. One of the more disturbing thing someone googled and ended up on my site is “blog teenage 14 years nue”. Nue means nude in French so that’s very disturbing.
Yea, though if I were you I’d try and capitalize on that LOL. There’s a lot of sick perverts out there.
I haven’t checked what keywords lead to my site (I’m suspecting hardly any, since my site is more of a personal blog and I’m not SEO crazy or anything), but hmm that does sound interesting and does make me want to check it actually haha. It’s like, if you ever want to experience randomness, just look at the keywords o_O
Keep up the good work, thanks!