Below you’ll find statistics from this blog and some discussion about how a useless blog like mine attracted so much traffic (useless traffic).
But, when I was looking through the traffic sources — sites that had links to my blog that people clicked — I noticed some traffic coming from this girl’s blog.
I was a little shocked that I was receiving traffic from the blog of a 17-year-old, self-entitled murderess, until I looked a little further and it turns out that my hair picture theft had probably attracted her to my blog through Google and then she linked to one of the posts including the stolen pictures or linked directly to one of the pictures. I didn’t dig much further to see if my guess was right.
But, I thought I would exploit her picture here because when you see it in a list or shared somewhere, you might click on it.
Wait, I just took a moment to read her description there. I saw the 17 and assumed it was her age. Now I see she’s a “ganska,” too. Dang.
Anyway, since I’m exploiting her, I thought I would put some of this Google “suck” that I “earned” by “stealing” pictures to work for her by providing a link back to her blog. LOOK, I don’t know what she’s saying on there, so I’m not responsible if you start coloring your hair, getting piercings, and picking up men named Gunther.
Seriously, it looks like she likes to talk about hair.
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Anyway, about my hair thing.
I just wanted to put up a post with pictures of women in them. Actually, I just wanted to look for some pictures of women. So, I did some posts about women and put in some pictures that I downloaded from the Internet.
I followed good SEO practices and named the picture files according to their content and I put them on blog posts that were named according to their content and then I actually put in some content talking about the stuff that was in the pictures. Google liked that and some of those pictures have been number 1 for Images searches for generic terms like, “Brown Hair.”
This caused a huge spike in the traffic to this blog:
Here are links to those most popular posts:
http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2011/05/brown-hair.html
http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2011/03/some-persians-are-women-too.html
http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2011/05/blonde-hair.html
http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2011/05/lucy-liu-shrine-of-liu-ness.html
http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2011/05/red-hair.html
Ok, so what have I proved? That you can add numbers to your stats by doing this, but this has not resulted in a bunch of AdSense clicks. People are just looking at the pictures.
But, if you have a product that you’re selling and you can take some good pictures of your product in use, then you should put them on your site with really long, really descriptive names. Don’t just put “ACME-model-1111-thumbnail.jpg” (unless that’s all it is). If it’s a picture of oilfield workers using your product to reclaim sludge for use elsewhere then it should be named, “oil-workers-reclaiming-slug-for-reuse-green-energy-production-technologies.jpg”.
Here’s a longer list of posts and their views.
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