I haven’t bragged about my rankings for competitive search terms in a while, but today the blog accomplished something truly momentous – a #1 ranking in Google Image search for “Senator Larry Craig“.
My fellow Americans, I am deeply humbled at this singular achievement.
God bless America and God bless Google.
Now if I can only get the top spots for “soup nazi” and “davey and goliath” back it will truly be morning in America again.
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Definitely a great milestone Andrew, and I hope you don’t have any followers “follow” you into the MSP airport. 🙂
I always use the nofollow tag in public restrooms.
I would rename the post: How to create a Google Fart. A Google Fart is creating a high ranking of
something that is not even close to what the
incoming traffic was expecting. First you place a ad on Craigslist driving who knows who to your
site. Once on your site they become bored and
start clicking on the first picture they see. Job
done, high ranking, a true Google Fart.
Bad dog Andrew, bad dog.
John, please keep in mind that the TOS of this blog requires readers to maintain a sense of humor.
I was being funny. And also bringing up the point that not all traffic is created equal. I would think you would get better analytics if you throw into
the pot both traffic sources and expected reason for coming to the site. Are the sources sustainable
or a one shot deal?
Nice blog by the way.
Of course the TOS also allows for the author to be a bit of a jerk now and then too. Thanks John. 🙂
Traffic to one’s site can be compared to either
gas siphoning from your neighbors car or duck hunting. Once you create the siphon with your
ad campaign, the momentum keeps traffic coming back. You are a happy guy. With duck hunting, the adwords may have stirred up a lot of traffic you can shoot at, but once shot, they aren’t coming back, you have to keep sending out those adwords for more victims, upps.. I meant customers.
Dividing your traffic into the two categories will help you see what works and what doesn’t, where and how you may want to tweak your
site.
You can still duck hunt, but think of it as a event driven promotion.
Separating the two should result in a better use of your resources.