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Search Engine Optimisation

I recently read an article series by Jennifer Laycock at the Search Engine Guide detailing her 30-day effort to start a business with no capital. She created a CafePress t-shirt shop based around supporting breastfeeding and milk banks (which I had never heard of before reading the article). She talked about finding a niche but also about search engine optimization which got me interested in just what search terms were bringing people to my site. So I started digging into ShortStat, which I had installed ages ago and never paid much attention to.
I have optimized for nothing, it’s all natural. My main search terms are:

  • navel love
  • le moving
  • dance monkeys dance
  • mahat Kakei
  • feminist blog
  • pastel on canvas
  • bed bug blog
  • why I love my husband
  • pastry island
  • gynological exams (with the spelling error, I must figure out WordPress spell check)

Perhaps I’ll give a new stat program a try, or upgrade the one I’m using. What I really like are graphs though. Seeing a pile of numbers doesn’t do much for me, honestly I don’t even remember the price of butter or my own cell phone number, a graphic representation would be gold.

http://www.searchengineguide.com/laycock/006142.html

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