Barbara’s last blog post..Stop The Press – I’m Dying To Share

Rebecca Laffar-Smith’s last blog post..Book Release: The Liar’s Diary by Patry Francis

I haven’t tried Google’s goal conversion…mainly because I haven’t put a lot of weight on my advertising (which is mostly on my other blog).

A great tool for keywords is HitTail. They track how others found your site and create what they call long and short tail keywords. I did a post about them, awhile back. Here’s the link to the post.

http://bloggingwithoutablog.com/hittail-results-in-more-traffic/

Re: your suicide post. If you are getting hits/visits because of individuals looking for a way out, I think a link to a hot line would be a great idea. It could save a life.

That would freak me out. But you’re right, we do have to be careful in choosing which keywords we optimize.

Barbara’s last blog post..Stop The Press – I’m Dying To Share

When it comes to search keywords I love scrolling mine for new blogging ideas. Sometimes the keywords used won’t be answered by the posts that draw them but if I wrote posts, optimizing those keywords, I could capture similar readers with the information they are after.

Speaking of which, those searches that keep hitting (still, months later) for my ‘suicide’ keyword make me wonder if I should add a link to the top of the page for a suicide help line. What do you think?

Rebecca Laffar-Smith’s last blog post..Book Release: The Liar’s Diary by Patry Francis

I just looked at AWStats, they do not include the spiders, robots or crawlers in these numbers. If you look at the top of that section, the number matches your actual “visits”.

I know what you mean about finding old posts. I either look in my “articles”, or “categories”, or do a search under “manage posts” (in the dashboard section of WP)