Sep 16 2008
My Search for Increasing Hits on My Posts
Okay, I’m just sick and tired of getting 10 or 15 hits on my post each day. All right, once I got 49 hits, but who knows why. I am on a search to figure out how some people get hundreds even thousands of hits a day on their site. Once and for all I will figure this out as it seems to be a big secret that only a few will tell.
Your told to put your site on social networks and get all your friends to check out your posts every day. Sorry, that isn’t going to even get you a 100 hits. So, I’m guessing that the words used in the article or post must be the secret. If someone else is willing to spill the beans let me know. I would be most grateful and would save a lot of time so I could get back to writing about things I enjoy.
First thing I did was to look at some people’s sites that were making a phenomenal number of hits each day to see if I could figure out why. I read one persons post that made a little sense, but not much as far as content. I didn’t think their subject matter was especially high on the subject totem pole, but I thought that might be where I’ve gone wrong. Yet, the post did contain a lot of out-of-place words. I’m thinking I’m on to something here.
Next thing I did was look up the most common internet search words. You guessed it, most of them had to do with “sex.” So, my next question to myself was, “Would it be compromising myself and my writing to sprinkle a few of those words in my writing?” I haven’t come to a conclusion on that yet. The first question will be if the network I post to will even allow me to use the word, “sex” in my post. We will see. And you will know if I’ve had to disguise the word somehow. Okay, let’s try the experiment out by putting in some of those words. Tomorrow I will let you know how many hits I got. If it’s still not many, maybe there has to be an abundance of the same word. But, I am determined to work this out and post my findings.
Well, I don’t feel comfortable using the number 1 and 2 words. But Google is number 3. Some others are boobs, hentai (I don’t even know what that means), Paris Hilton, eBay, yahoo, sex, milf (don’t know that one either), girls, Jessica Simpson, poetry, Carmen Electra, games, dogs, Jenna Jamison, myspace, Pamela Anderson, 50 cent, yahoo.com, nude, games cheat, 89.com (I’m not going to check to see what this site is), mapquest, girls gone wild. Okay that’s it. I skipped a few though.
Okay, I need some more coffee and then we’ll see if we can find anymore lists. Because, who knows how old these lists are and for some of the names anyway, may have changed popularity.
I found a site that looked like you needed membership, but I’m not taking time to join anything this morning. And I definitely am not going to pay for this info. But, I did find some replies on that site that it let me read regarding some of the phrases and of course top ones were including sex and porn. Don’t think I can include those on a daily basis and still feel good about my writing. Interestingly, someone said that “learn Chinese” was one of the top 50 phrases. Wow, that’s odd. Apparently “learn English” was in there somewhere, but who knows what countries that was coming from - maybe it doesn’t matter. It seems like the word “free” would be a common word or any phrase with it included. Just a thought of my own.
Well, this experiment could go on for some time as perhaps I will get some results but will need to see how I can get better results. Will I need to sprinkle a particular word throughout the post or does it matter how many times a word is printed or does it need to be in the title or first sentence or paragraph? And then you have to wonder if actually saying out loud (or at least in a post) that you are trying to figure out what some people already know and use is acceptable. I’ve never liked secrets. So, we will see what kink of response I get from this post. Stick with me.
