SEO: Search Engine Optimization

February 2010 Organic Keywords
Published March 1, 2010 @ 10:14 in SEO: Search Engine Optimization

Search Strings According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in February 2010.

  1. sandra rinomato breasts
  2. tom brokaw explains canada to americans
  3. toronto mike
  4. tom brokaw explains canada
  5. boom 97.3
  6. tom brokaw canada
  7. eh oh canada go
  8. country 95.3
  9. anne mroczkowski
  10. toronto mike blog

Searches for Tom Brokaw's NBC video about Canada started to spike after NBC had YouTube remove the video due to copyright violation. NBC.com hosted the video on their site, but due to IOC territory rights, you couldn't view the video from outside the USA.

Don't tell NBC, but you can see that awesome Tom Brokaw video right here.

January 2010 Organic Keywords
Published February 1, 2010 @ 15:55 in SEO: Search Engine Optimization

Search Strings According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in January 2010.

  1. lara di battista
  2. eh oh canada go
  3. sandra rinomato breasts
  4. anne mroczkowski
  5. toronto mike
  6. rick hodge fired
  7. boom 97.3
  8. country 95.3
  9. teri polo died
  10. jim mckenny

This is the first time since I started sharing these monthly reports that an edition of Big Shiny Tunes did not appear in the top 10. It's the end of a Big Shiny Era.

And oh yeah, the search for Sandra Rinomato's breasts continues...

December 2009 Organic Keywords
Published January 2, 2010 @ 10:49 in SEO: Search Engine Optimization

Search Strings According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in December 2009.

  1. rick hodge fired
  2. country 95.3
  3. sandra rinomato breasts
  4. party playlist 2009
  5. party playlist
  6. toronto mike
  7. boom 97.3
  8. roy halladay ad
  9. party music playlist 2009
  10. big shiny tunes 2

In December, people were looking for Rick Hodge, wondering what happened to their country music station and catching wind of the new Boom 97.3 on Boxing Day.

And the search for Sandra Rinomato's breasts continues...

November 2009 Organic Keywords
Published December 1, 2009 @ 14:41 in SEO: Search Engine Optimization

Search Strings According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in November 2009.

  1. country 95.3
  2. sandra rinomato breasts
  3. what happened to country 95.3
  4. toronto mike
  5. party playlist
  6. party playlist 2009
  7. torontomike
  8. wedding songs 2009
  9. big shiny tunes 5
  10. big shiny tunes 2

For a radio station I hadn't heard of until it went oldies, November's keywords were dominated by Country 95.3. I was a little surprised that demographic knew how to Google.

October 2009 Organic Keywords
Published November 2, 2009 @ 11:20 in SEO: Search Engine Optimization

Search Strings According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in October 2009.

  1. sandra rinomato breasts
  2. toronto mike
  3. party playlist
  4. party playlist 2009
  5. wedding songs 2009
  6. prima tv
  7. torontomike
  8. fearless fred
  9. big shiny tunes 2
  10. difference between cold and h1n1

That last search term is interesting. People are searching for the differences between the common cold and H1N1 in so many different ways, it's amazing one term cracked the top ten.

In October alone, 1,239 different search terms contained the expression "H1N1". Here are the top ten "H1N1" keywords that brought visitors to this site last month.

  1. difference between cold and h1n1
  2. h1n1 clinics in toronto
  3. h1n1 clinics toronto
  4. h1n1 flu clinics toronto
  5. difference between h1n1 and cold
  6. know the difference between a cold and h1n1 flu symptoms
  7. difference between cold and h1n1 flu
  8. h1n1 vaccine clinics in toronto
  9. h1n1 flu symptoms
  10. difference between a cold and h1n1

P.S. I'm now officially in the market for a photo of Sandra Rinomato's breasts. Contact me if you have such a picture.

Toronto Blog Challenge Update
Published October 22, 2009 @ 18:29 in SEO: Search Engine Optimization

googleIt's been awhile since I updated you all on my Toronto Blog Google Challenge. I want to rank #1 in Google for Toronto Blog searches. I want to be the definitive Toronto blog, according to Google.

What makes this challenge particularly tough are two multi-authored and financed blogs. As I've said before, I am but one man doing this for shits and giggles during coffee breaks, intermissions and commercials.

I am currently ranking 2nd overall when you search for toronto blog in Google. That's out of 44,900,000 indexed sites, by the way.

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Toronto Mike: Independently owned and operated by one guy since 1999.

September 2009 Organic Keywords
Published October 2, 2009 @ 19:05 in SEO: Search Engine Optimization

Search Strings According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in September 2009.

  1. sandra rinomato breasts
  2. toronto mike
  3. darcy allan sheppard
  4. party playlist 2009
  5. prima tv
  6. party playlist
  7. martin streek
  8. big shiny tunes 2
  9. fearless fred
  10. toronto mike blog

No, I don't have pictures of Sandra Rinomato's breasts. She's the host of a show called Property Virgins I once wrote about, and I rank very highly for her name. I also rank very highly for searches for her breasts. That's solely because someone wrote about her breasts in the comments.

A lot of people are awfully disappointed when they click through to that entry...

Let Me Be Clear: Google Doesn't Care About Your Keywords Meta Tag
Published September 21, 2009 @ 16:50 in SEO: Search Engine Optimization

GoogleI've been keeping a close eye on the world of Search Engine Optimization for several years now. In fact, one reason this blog came to be was so I could use trial and error to see what worked for the bots. Over the past few years, one thing became abundantly true with regards to the biggest search engine of them all, Google.

Google doesn't care about your "keywords" meta tag. I can't tell you how many arguments I've had with people over this one fact. Earlier today, Google made it very clear.

Q: Why doesn't Google use the keywords meta tag?
A: About a decade ago, search engines judged pages only on the content of web pages, not any so-called "off-page" factors such as the links pointing to a web page. In those days, keyword meta tags quickly became an area where someone could stuff often-irrelevant keywords without typical visitors ever seeing those keywords. Because the keywords meta tag was so often abused, many years ago Google began disregarding the keywords meta tag.

It's all explained in this video. In a nutshell, you're wasting time stuffing keywords in your meta data. It's all about creating content and putting the content in the right places. And that's one to grow on.

August 2009 Organic Keywords
Published September 4, 2009 @ 16:23 in SEO: Search Engine Optimization

Search Strings According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in August 2009.

  1. toronto mike
  2. martin streek
  3. fearless fred
  4. sandra rinomato breasts
  5. prima tv
  6. wedding songs 2008
  7. wedding songs 2009
  8. norm rumack
  9. wedding playlist 2009
  10. party playlist

For the very first time in the history of this blog, 'toronto mike' searches sent the most visitors. I've either become famous or you regulars have become lazier.

July 2009 Organic Keywords
Published August 2, 2009 @ 20:15 in SEO: Search Engine Optimization

Search Strings According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in July 2009.

  1. martin streek
  2. martin streak
  3. martin streek dead
  4. toronto mike
  5. "martin streek"
  6. barry taylor
  7. norm rumack
  8. martin streek death
  9. martin streek fired
  10. sandra rinomato breasts

For all the wrong reasons, Google searches for Martin Streek dominated the inbound traffic in July. That first keyword alone sent 40,000 unique visitors to this blog.

This blog had more visitors in July 2009 than in any previous month during its seven year history. The previous high was set in January 2009.

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