WordPress and search engine terms

WordPress has an almost very useful feature on its Blog Stats page: It gives search engine terms that people have used to find your blog.

But it doesn’t tell you which search engine they were using, how high in the search engine ranking your blog was, or which post/page it referred them to. I picked this up yesterday when I noticed that someone had found my site via the search engine term “Project manager analogies”. Pretty obscure, don’t you think? (I had another one today: “websites that are cell phone easy” – quite specific )

It piqued my curiosity, so I went to my default search engine, and Googled it.

Update on “SEO – Living the link-love”

Last week, I wrote about using link-love as part of an exercise to improve our blogs’ search engine rankings. I thought I’d go back today and do the same searches to see if it had any impact. It has.

SEO – Living the Link-Love

We did a session on search engine optimisation (SEO) for our blogs in our seminar today. Besides using and highlighting keywords in titles, tags and content (sensibly and intelligibly of course), a key element – of course – is link-love.

To try and demonstrate this (although we’ll probably only see the results of this after a few days, when the googlebots have visited all our blogs), we’re linking to each other. Of course, most of our blogs are really new, so there’s not too much power behind the links at this stage. However, it’s all relative. We did searches before doing the optimisation.