The One with SEOs and Obscure Searches

Posted on April 4, 2006

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Deliberately been lagging in my blogging to check out how my traffic will plunge after the "SGEnterpreneur" Effect. Thanks to Bernard and his flattering attribution of my article from his article which sent quite a number of referrals to my blog. 

 And so i have been watching my traffic, using the basic WordPress tracker. I must say traffic-watching by itself is quite enjoyable, especially when you see what type  of searches pple typed in order to reach your blog. Just a coupla minutes ago, I saw "ibanking blog" appear and googled it to find myself ranked No. 4. I also clicked on No. 1 and found a pretty good blog by someone who blogged about her MBA admissions process and her successful acceptance into Columbia. Dun you just apreciate the randomness and subtle wonders of Google searches sometimes? I do. 

 Another thing to confess is that yes, Arpit, I have had quite a number of "Taammy"-related searches(ignore the double "a"s, intentional typo there to ward off unwanted traffic). I just did some google searches and i am no. 1 on the "taammy coppycat" searches.

Now, thats a good way to game the google system i must say, especially if i m a google adsense gamer who wants to trick the hordes of desperate porn-seekers into clicking bogus sites thinking they are gonna see some action. Makes me wonder if click fraud's ever gonna be the Achilles heel that breaks the back of Google. 

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