Whenever someone launches a new blog, they typically spend a lot of time looking at their stats, trying to see how well they’re doing. The thing I’m focusing on lately is how well my site is being indexed by search engines. Part of this is seeing what people are searching for when they find your site. It’s supposed to help you maximize your keyword effectiveness.

The problem with goofy blogs like this one is that keywords are kinda useless because I write about different things every day. It’s a humor and satire site, but the words “humor” and “satire” won’t regularly appear anywhere in the content, at least nowhere near as often as “booger” and “loose women” will. This makes my page hard to index, so people that actually find my site from a search engine are typically searching for some pretty weird shit.

The picture to your right is a screenshot of a portion of my searches list. This is what people typed into Google to find The JagPot. As you can see, the popularity of my site is directly connected to the eating habits of Katie Holmes, and is likely to grow in proportion to the size of Ted Danson’s bald spot. I guess I’m rooting for Katie to pork up and no progress being made in the fight against male pattern baldness.

Either that or I’m going to have to start relying on my talent. (Chow down, Katie! You’re eating for two now!)

So, being that a strong portion of my traffic lately came from a review of a wildlife documentary where someone got eaten, I’m gonna go watch March of the Penguins right now and pray that a bunch of penguins eat Morgan Freeman.

Tags: keywords, search engines, search results, ted danson, katie holmes