Website Traffic – Post Titles Based On Search Results

Sometimes we assume that keyword interjection in the content is enough. Thanks for the tip, John -- this is very helpful.

I've known about this for some time, having good titles with keywords in. Although, after reading you post about just how important it is, for any titles/blogs in the future i will definitely be using a one of your listed tools :cool:.

Title = search term is very basic and a KEY "must do" for all the outsourced bloggers I supply to webmasters the world over.

I agree. My Google Pagerank shot up from 4 to 6 long time ago due to the fact that I write a very descriptive title for the content of my post.

Another important thing is your post's published URL= permalink. If it matches the title of the post, Google likes it better.

For example, http://thinkabdul.com/2007/03/24/sample-post/ makes more sense and relevance than http://thinkabdul.com/?p=123 or http://thinkabdul.com/archives/123

Hope everyone understood what I am trying to say.

Well of course that makes a lot of sense.

thats reallly good information. thanks.

Thanks for the reminder.

I have to reiterate the importance of smaller blogs going after the less competitive terms. Blogs without the authority or trust of a JohnChow.com won't be able to get ranked for those premium terms, but can probably hit page 1 for the lesser stuff. Some traffic is better than none :)

I find it odd that for some months now the top dozen or so search strings for 2Dolphins.com include "pink dolphins." Now granted, I do try include posts on dolphin-related topics since those are relevant to our site name (and near to my wife's heart), but I've only blogged about the pink dolphins once.

Likewise the keywords "joan jett" and "ipod tattoos" are consistently in our top few search strings but neither are topics that are frequently blogged about. In fact, I think I've only had a single post about each of those - and neither of those posts were very recent.

I'm tempted to dream up another blog entry with the words "pink" and "dolphins" in the title just to see what would happen to my site hits and/or search string stats...

This can be ported to static sites also. Placing a good keyword selection in tags at the top and also within the title and filename will give you a good advantage at getting traffic.

This pretty much falls under my theory of using SEQR except mine goes further to tell people to write more about the "stumble" searches..

http://blog.jeffkee.com/2007/02/08/search-engine-q...

I cant believe so much work goes into one of your blog posts.

I've learned a few things by checking my visitor stats to see where search engine visitors came from. I've been surprised to find certain titles that seem similar do much better with search engines than others.

Also important for this is to make sure the blog post name comes before the blog name itself in your title. For those that use WordPress, the default is to display "BlogTitle >> BlogPostTitle". You can see how John switched it around in his blog's config so that it displays "BlogPostTitle

Agreed but what about intriguing title with good keywords?!? ;)

I had a strange experience with a blog I'm posting on.

A search term kept appearing in the stats and it pointed to a totally unrelated post where, by mere chance the search term was mentioned.

I decided to try something and made a post with the exact search term as the title, some information about the subject and put an adsense block in the post -the rest of the site don't have ads.

Since then, every day about 150 people come to the site, and on average 12 of them click on the ads. It doesn't generate any money worth talking about but I just spent 5 minutes to post and it brings in 4-5$/mo every month. Not bad when you come to think of it :)

I know it's marginally related to the subject but I thought it might give an idea to someone :)

Smaller blogs should choose less competitive keywords no matter where if they wish to get 1st page in any SE..

bigger blogs like this one can "go for the gold" and try to take up major keywords like "Making Money" and so..

A quick search at Nichebot or Wordtracker can really help figure out which keywords to use like you said.
For a smaller blog(like mine) those lower competition keywords can really help.

Nice tips. I guess I start thinking out better titles for my new posts than the ones I currently have now. Sometimes, thinking of a good one is pretty hard!