Aurélien Lainé

Hi everyone!

And I mean EVERYONE. I recently had the feeling that my blog was not that interesting as the wordpress stats showed a regular amount of hits between zero and five. So I looked at it and started to wonder what I should change to get it moving. First thing, I’ve been posting more regularly, that is to say, almost everyday. Then, I added more tags on my posts and tried to get some more interesting subjects on. But the big hit came today, I started to document every part of my new project on my blog: the ‘Moana project’. As of now, I am at forty seven hits. I know, on web terms, it is not that much but in my house, the ceiling’s low and it just got ripped apart by a tornado. I can’t really tell how many actual visitors that means as I’m not sure if a hit is only about the page read orabout a single visitor, no matter how many pages this visitor reads. But what I do know is that more visitors came and hopefully interested visitors flicking through the pages of my blog.

Now, wordpress gives other interesting stats such as: referrers and Search Engines Terms. The former being a blog or website where my blog’s link is published and the latter being a link provided by a search engine which responded to certain terms. Well, no big surprise with the first one as I can find a friend’s blog, my pertner’s blog and, well, facebook where I advertised in my status (yea, lame, I know). The second though is a bit more fun. Here are the terms that brought visitors to my blog:

_aurelien stupide: do I need to translate that? Not really what i hoped for as a reference to my blog. So I googled it to understand how that happened. Basically, one of my short stories on the blog contains a ’stupid deal’ part, signed with my name ‘Aurelien Laine’ and that’s that.

_carson reeves imdb: those come from my article on the Scriptshadow blog written by Carson Reeves. Well, I’m glad to say that using a search engine, somehow, I can be found without having my name in there.

It all got me thinking, I’m not that knowledgeable in search engines and I wonder how they make their way through the web to get those links in the hierarchy they do. Well, I heard once that it depended on the number of clicks, then no no no, that was outdated, it’s all in the coding of the website. Well then, how does it work with blogs?

So I want to give it a try, like a big test and see what kind of hits I get back from the search engines. Let’s make it obvious on terms that will generate hits and let’s see how it goes. I’ll write them here and in the tags:

How about: naked sweedish one leg jackass burn tits swallow google.

Let’s see what wordpress stats say of that!