Does your website have a name?
March 23rd, 2008There is a very simple indicator whether visitors of your website come there because they intended to come to your website or they they just happened to click on it while searching with a search engine. This could be reduced to “Brand vs. SEO” probably although there is more to it.
Some examples..
- Otroski.net had a very loyal user-base in it’s time and around 80% of search engine keywords for it had been “otroski.net” (and variations)
- bravekidgames.com offers games for kids and is not really that special. I had to wait for 2 years to notice the first visitor that came to the site through searching “bravekidgames.com”. Lately I notice them more often but it’s still a rarity. You have to count in that around 2000 people see it every day and it’s up-there for 2-3 years
- QUBIDRAW gets 1/10 of BKG visitors, is around for just a while (and is still a somewhat crapish release-early thing) but I already noticed folks get there by searching “qubidraw”
March 24th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I am not sure how well this indicator works for my blog. I think the majority of people typing in my URL are not looking for my website so much as Game Boy games.
On the other hand, I have found that someone somewhere had typed in a string of words they clearly read in one of my blog posts. I’ve done this before if I can remember a line but not where I read it, and someone apparently did that for my blog. B-)
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:07 am
Uh, I don’t even dare to mention what stupid keyword is the #1 for this blog because if I mention it again it will just get stronger. I can try with geek/spamtalk maybe… g@meb0b.c0m
I once wrote a post how every normal domain is already taken and I titled it (encoded) “g@meb0b.c0m already taken” because I was trying every reasonable and unreasonable domain and all were taken so I tried to think the stupidest one I could think of for the last try and even that one was taken. Now a bunch of folks come to this blog searching for that domain and I can’t imagine why the hell are they searching for g@meb0b.c0m when there is no website with that name or anything.
I guess it’s some sort of naturally obvious domain and every 1000th person says to itself “there must be some website named g@meb0b.c0m out there with very cool games so I will do a quick google for it.