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The Search Engine Phantom That Makes Money

May 20, 2008 on 8:33 pm | In website traffic |

There is an unknown, mystical being that lurks in the blogosphere, it is called the Search Engine Phantom. The SE Phantom has been around for about 3 years now, and urban legend has it that he makes an appearance around Memorial Day. He visits blogs who are SE optimized and keyword friendly, and graces them with traffic.

All the traffic the blogs’ servers can handle. The blog owner doesn’t know when or where the SE Phantom appeared, only that upon checking their daily traffic, they noticed a spike, a strong upward lift in visitors that could not be explained.

The blog owner wanders, whether it was the extra social media networking that did it, was the front page story on Mixx or Digg? Or did lots of Entrecard owners visit and share the link love. The questions dog the blog owners’ mind, yet answers evade him. Maybe it was the SE Phantom.

Now this is about as far as I can go with this nonsense. I was looking for something to write about today, and I noticed on Ice Rocket that searchers were actually looking for the topic, “The Search Engine Phantom That Makes Money.” Weird, and totally out of the box. This is different I’m thinking, let’s try these puppies out.

There is no SE Phantom that visits like the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy. The SE Phantom is a component of the valuable content and information that is provided on your site.

However, many tools are available that can help you optimize your site or blog. Some of them are even free, like Wordtracker, which will help you come up with keywords, words you can use to create blog posts.

Then there is Web Ceo, which takes keyword analysis and website analysis one step further, providing clues to fine tuning your blog.

Blog Catalog will help you get traffic, as will Entrecard. Two other free tools that help generate visitors.

These are just a couple of things off the top of my head I can think of, things that I use.

Don’t forget to always leave substantive comments on other blog posts, that is surely a traffic generator as well.

Posted by Teasa’s Tips