This post is inspired by Karlonia, truly one of my most admired bloggers (that I stumbled upon through Entrecard). I have learned a 
lot from him. It was through Karl that I learned about search engine optimization and some of its basic techniques. At first I thought he was a she, but a quick google search reveals this information about this great blogger: “My name is Karl Erfurt, administrator of Karlonia.com, the world’s first (and only, as far as I know) Libertarian Internet Marketing Blog.”
Karl runs a post every Sunday that he calls Sunday Search Queries. It is an SEO post technique discussing about the popular search queries that ultimately landed on his blog. So much about Karlonia.com this time, I promised to myself I am going to make a review of his blog soon.
For over three months now, this blog has consistently generated hits from various search engines (as of last 4 weeks, 50% of my traffic came from search engine queries) and below are some of the popular search terms and keywords used that invited those precious traffic:
free blog sites making money - this has been a consistent hits generator and ranks among the top 5 search. Although its placement with Google is inconsistent, it still made some nice traffic contribution.
bloggista - a top 3 keyword (based on my WordPress dashboard stats. Surprisingly, a considerable number of people are actually typing this keyword on search engines. When I got this domain name, I thought I was lucky and can optimize this domain name as a keyword for blogging. Now is the time for me to learn SEO and take advantage of the potential of this domain name.
online cpm rates - this one also generates traffic consistently. There is not a single day that this search query missed a hit on this blog. Thus I need to make a follow up post and a refined and thorough study on CPM rates.
bar exam passers - a post on the recent Philippine Bar Examination results generated my biggest all-time traffic which made the previous daily hits almost insignificant on my dashboard traffic chart. Now I understand why some bloggers post these kind of results on their blogs. Very clever!
pinay sex scandal photo - this is part of the SEO experiment for the keywords pinay sex scandals, pinay sex videos and pinay scandal. True enough, hits were generated from these keywords - every single day.
These are the top query search keywords featured for now. I am sure every blogger have their own keyword strategies and are definitely generating traffics way way higher than mine, but for newbie bloggers like me, there is indeed hope and room for us in blogosphere, as long as we strive to learn the even the basics of search engines optimization techniques. Only a matter of time that we are able to make our own share of the pie - and as Karlonia puts it, learn and stamp out ignorance.
How about you? How much traffic you are generating from search engine queries? What are your top keywords? I know for some bloggers, keywords are like secret ingredients, thus sharing it with others is just a stupid idea. But for those new to blogging and those who are about to start a blog, this information will be very helpful.
sa akin? bihira rin ang bumibisita na blogger, usually comes from Search Engine and mostly with Pinay Scandal Keywords, gone are the days that students who’s doing their research in their Filipino and Social Studies class visits my site.
Pang adult na daw ako e lol!
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nyahaha! yaan mo one of these days kuya lol!
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I look at that blog, but didn’t find anything really useful over there. It seems to be a bunch of ramblings in no particular order.
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Karlonia Replies:
November 24th, 2008 at 1:50 am
I’m sorry you couldn’t find anything useful at Karlonia — perhaps you could suggest a topic that you want me to cover. Better yet, you can submit an article through the Contact page and receive a free link back to your site.
The reason my blog seems to be “a bunch of ramblings in no particular order” is that I am targeting a variety of keywords and do not confine myself to narrowly defined niches. I can always create other niche-oriented blogs later if I want to take that route. Otherwise, I generally write about things that I know other people are searching for and that do not already have a surplus of information available on them (that is, too much competition in the search results).
Meanwhile, if you want to find something in particular at Karlonia, the posts are organized into categories which are displayed in the sidebar on the right side of every page. You can also use the custom search bar in the upper right corner if you want to search for something specific.
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hehehe me umaapila lol! la pa kong maganda-gandang logo e
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A very interesting post. Hope you make this a regular post - will check back soon.
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pang adult ka na pala manilenya heheheh
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Thank you for the links — this was a really nice post.
Believe it or not, I’m still doing the Sunday search query posts even though they are not really helping me in terms of traffic (because there are many different topics grouped together on the same page). I finally switched over to Google Analytics for gathering the keywords and other website statistics and am now using a cropped screenshot of the previous week’s traffic stats as the post image. This is handy because it not only saves me time in searching for images but also provides visitors with additional information about my site’s overall traffic.
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bloggista Replies:
November 24th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Hi Karl, great to see you dropping by! I could see how successful you are in your keywords experiments and posts - you’re receiving a tremendous amount of traffic as reflected in your Alexa Rank.
Good thing you also used Google Analytics, yup I agree, its much more powerful to almost anything about SEO and web analytics.
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