Search Engines are very important if we talk about traffic. Traffic is the key for making money online. But search engines are very hard to understand. Everybody knows the SEO basics, but to rank high you need skill. Or is this a myth. Do you need a ton of backlinks and you have a winner? I don’t know. I will show some of my search engine details in this post.
The top 5 of my current 599 search strings are all proxy related. At number 1 is “proxy websites” with 1,300 visitors this month, with 10 days to go. At number 2 is “proxy website” with 700 visitors this month already. The total of the top 5 results are 2,600 so far this month. And this is all targeted proxy traffic. Most of those visitors are teens that want to surf on MySpace or people in offices that want to surf the web at work.
All this traffic is landing into my Proxy Website post. As you can see on the comments (currently 41) the traffic are mostly teens. I am on spot 5 in google for the term “Proxy Website” and it is searched a lot. The overture for “proxy website” was 8,000 last month (and this is only in yahoo search).
But why does this post rank that high in the search engines? This blog is about Tech, Search Engine Ranking, Domaining and Making Money Online, it has nothing to do with proxy websites. I made that post because I owned a proxy website. I closed the site because of to much BW use. But I decided to put it back on again (yesterday) because of this massive proxy traffic this blog is getting.
I am trying to rank high for keywords I just mentioned (tech, search engine ranking etc), but I get high rankings for totally different things. I also get some decent search engine traffic on this blog post “painfull moment“. It is a very small post with a hilarious picture of a soccer player (check for yourself). But I don’t try to rank high for keywords like “funny soccer pics” or “soccer pics”.
I will keep my eye open for new strategies and tactics and will share it with you if it brings any success.
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May 20th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
just have to try to hit the right term in your permalink as well as content.
Have to keep it in mind while posting from now on.
Dylan
May 20th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I already do that Dylan. It takes more
May 20th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
So, what is the most bizarre keyword you are getting traffic from?
May 20th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Hey good buddy!!
That’s part of the long tail that we should love and embrace.
Why fight so damn hard for those highly competitive keywords when you could sweep through the land and snatch up all the others?
May 20th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
How are you able to track the traffic from the specific keywords? Is that something that Analytics will do for you?
I am interested to know more about that 100%!
As many of you know I have been pondering the best keywords to get into my mix and for now have been focusing primarily on my name as a brand.
Your opinion matters thanks.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
yea, permalinks play a big role in google postings from what I have seen! change the name of that post to something like “Soccers painful moments” something that….
btw HMTK, i get traffic for “Vir Das” a stand up comedian in india….there seems to be so little videos of that guy online! he is funny!
May 21st, 2007 at 1:25 am
Hey nomar can you email me the names and links to all your directories please.
Thanks
May 21st, 2007 at 9:12 pm
I’ve noticed a few great search strings that have brought in quite a bit of visits from Google as well…It’s great! Once you find some search strings that aren’t used as much but bring in traffic…just optimize from that point on..
-Gregg
June 1st, 2007 at 4:40 am
Look people i got a web site called offcampuslunch.com
if that doesn’t work find your own script type in School proxys at google go to page forty click on the fist one and there is this code right delete it and paste your own code refreash the page and you have a proxy
June 1st, 2007 at 9:32 am
mario, that is called spam
the next one will be deleted, be warned 
November 7th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Damn people I need a porxy web site my scholl blocked every fucking one! serious!