Out SEOing The NYTimes.com
If you’re an Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert, here’s some interesting data for you to play with…
Christine Mohan, my friend and co-worker, emailed me 11/26 morning – “NYT: Indian manhole covers. Front page story today.” Christine knew I had blogged about NYC manhole covers a few months ago, just for fun. It’s been little under a week since J. Adam Huggins of The New York Times covered the story, and nicely packaged it with a must-watch audio slideshow. And for the entire week since the story appeared in NYT, Google Search has been sending a good chunk of traffic to my blog. I’ve WP-Stats and Google Analytics installed on my blog, and out of curiousity I ran a Google Search test on the entrance keywords. (Note: Google constantly tweaks its search results algorithm, so these findings will certainly change over time).
manholes made in india (#1 NYT, #2 AdosPados)
made in india sewer (#1 AdosPados, #2 NYT)
n.y.c sewer india (#1 AdosPados, #2 NYT)
ny sewer made india (#1 AdosPados, #2 NYT)
nyc sewer made in india (#1 NYT, #2 AdosPados)
2 Comments
Jamie Thingelstad on December 6th, 2007
@Raanan: nice to see you pimping WordPress on the blogosphere. :-)
(Note: I tend to agree with you.)
@Rama: Great to find your blog! I didn’t know you had one. +1 to my Reader.
Raanan Bar-Cohen on December 4th, 2007
Nice work Rama !
You have great timing with your posts, and it doesn’t hurt that you use WordPress and probably a sitemap plugin too :)