I’ve got THE* answer to web traffic…

Write about the following topics… Ditch everything else you have or will ever write about and stick to this formula. Rigidly. It turns out, people search for them all the time. Because once, I wrote about them. Only once, and on a whim, because the thought crossed my mind. And now, they are still in my all time posts. Why? Because people are searching for them! 

Here they are;

  1. My Family Stickers! Has to be number one. People love ’em or hate ’em. 
  2. Blogging. It turns out when you blog about being a blogger blogging the search thingys go a little mental. Seems silly to have to read blogs to find out a blogging. But I guess that’s just the way it goes. 
  3. FREE STUFF. Write free stuff and the world comes to your door. And so, my friends, do the spammers. 
  4. Facebook Fan Pages. I love finding a good find on facebook pages. 
  5. Crafty Things. Lately I have shared a few craft projects. And I have found that the people search for projects. Craft/Crafty projects. 
  6. That it’s YOUR BIRTHDAY! Heehee. Probably flogging this one, more than once a year would get  a bit suspect. But you know, good while it lasts. 
  7. Friday. When I posted about Friday yesterday, it turns out I caught the tail end {please be the tail end!} of the Friday song Utube thing. Oh my.  
  8. Funny Quotes. One of my first posts EVER was a post was some silly quotes. Things that made me laugh. It often, even now, gets stumbled upon by people searching out quotes.
  9. Zac Efrron. And you have no idea how accidental this was. I wrote the post about Dave looking like Zac Effron and all of a sudden I was Effron Central. Hardly my usual target audience. But they came in waves. 
  10. Small girls with large round butts – This one is VERY popular apparently. A bit specific and completely off topic for this blog. Hello large girl, no butt. But yes. Huge search topic. Or that could just be my page? :oP 
So there you go. The lesson to be learned here is that not all traffic is beneficial to your blog. A lot of these people clicked over and clicked away. I also get the most spam on these highly searched topics. And the most anon comments. Some nice, most not. Weigh it up. 


*This may or may not actually be THE answer. 

19 responses to “I’ve got THE* answer to web traffic…”

  1. LOVE IT.I get allot of hits about craft too and my blog tips.ANDYou've changed your blog again :P looks fabulous!

  2. Well it makes total sense now that I get no traffic! Bwahahahahahaha.

  3. Oh wow, imagine what would happen if you incorporated all of those things into one blog post. Go on, I dare ya!

  4. Oh wait, I JUST DID write a post with them all! Haha. Watch out. It'll drag all the internet traffic in all the world to the one place. :oP A black hole of traffic, so to speak. Thanks Dani. I downloaded some new backgrounds last night. It may be on it's way out again. As always.

  5. Great post. That last one made me laugh. :)

  6. Oh yeah, so you did. Oops!

  7. Ha ha ha this is funny, i hope this comment makes it through before the black hole swallows it up. :-)

  8. How funny! I hardly ever look to see how ppl are coming across me. Apparently This week people are coming across to read about green cakes.. ! Hope you don't get spammed like crazy :p

  9. Well, that MUST be what Im doing wrong, lol! Well at least I write about crafty things :) Next time, I'll slip Zac in there, or maybe Justin Beiber! ;)

  10. Hahahaha omg family stickers! How long with that fad last?Also, damn those spammers! Are they computers or 'real' people?

  11. Love it, Melissa! I was struggling with what to write on my blog today ….SSG xxxSydney Shop Girl blog

  12. Funnily enough, the thing that has received the most hits on my blog is 'removing crayon from Ikea chairs'. Hmm, didn't realise this was a worldwide problem. Strange what blogging teaches you!

  13. I think I'll stick with my random thoughts, that much traffic might cause my little laptop to implode.

  14. Dammit, THAT'S what I've been doing wrong! thanks for the heads-up, chook.I always get a buzz when I drop by and you've changed your background.

  15. Are you serious?! Huh. Who would have thunk it …Tell us how many hits your post with all if it gets. I'm definitely intrigued …

  16. Can you believe that one of my top key words is "baby trash". What the hell?

  17. Love this list. too funny on what brings people to your blog sometimes. My worst one was when I wrote a blog post about one of my kids wetting their pants and I got hits from searches on women weeing – ewww! did you know that there are whole sitse set up with gross pictures of women weeing – so not loving the fact that I followed the search and clicked on the link!!!no more researching for me! love that yours are happy things N x

  18. Weeeeelll. It turns out that it really did break my Google Analytics. HA. I just had three days of no readings. Broken. Or it could have been the change of template… Better to believe it was the post to end all traffic posts, don't cha think!? :oDAnd oh goodness, the search words we have sometimes. Not all nice, that's for sure. :o/

  19. Do a post on reality TV & write the name of every reality TV show you watch with images that are labeled with the most 'famous' of those shows……………. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm….. I might just do that now as an experiment. lol! :)

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