Learning From Your Searches: Ideas for Future Posts
Many bloggers like to see what kind of keyword searches are leading people to their blogs. This can provide interesting feedback as to topics to focus on more.
Today I was looking at a search list, and ran across some interesting ideas for posts I’ll try to prepare in coming days or weeks. Here are the raw searches:
- how do affirmative action, fmla, and ada impact current union membership?
- walmart number of ada lawsuits
- proof to beat discrimination case
- evidence of discrimination in usa
- how productive are telecommuters
- employment referral companies
- happy workers are productive workers
- friday humor
Some take a little reading between the lines to guess exactly what the searcher was after, but I’ll interpret them loosely, for inspiration, and run with them.
Ah, and the last one? I’ll take that as a sign that Michael’s onto something big in running humor on Fridays!
Nothing more to say on that one, except keep it coming on Fridays, Michael.
And as a sign of how google loves blogs, I just searched “Friday Humor” and this Blawg is listed SIXTH!
Finally, we love this one:
- 10 top employer blogs
We made it (barely) on the first screen of Google reponses for that query!
How do you find out what searches are leading people to your blog? I use Blogger and I do not know how to go about this. Haven’t been able to figure out how to get an RSS feed on my blog, either. Thanks.
Good questions. A number of free site statistics options are available. I am currently using statcounter,
http://www.statcounter.com/.
It provides, among other things, information on key words used to find your site. First you must establish an account and paste some code into your sidebar. Then you can click on the little button and view your stats.
I see you have an atom feed. I’m no techie, so I don’t know much. But I understand there are varying tech standards for newsfeeds, notably RSS and atom.
To the rescue comes feedburner, which takes your blogger feed and automatically translates it to suit the viewer, whatever their requirements. At least that’s my understanding.
Feedburner provides many other nifty features, all free, including stats that will not show up on your other stats because they are subscribers to your feed, not visitors (they may not visit, but just read the feed).