A little background before I launch into this post. A week or so ago I posted a photo of an innocuous landscape scene and for giggles I wrote “Not Gall Bladder Surgery” in the post header. You can see that post here. This in itself was no big deal, but I was surprised at the number of search engine views I received. So, I remarked about this oddity in a second post entitled “Really, Its Not About Gall Bladder Surgery” which you can read here. Despite the names of these posts, people are still clicking on my blog (including today) after searching the web for ‘gall bladder surgery.’
Having said all that, I have decided to try this again as a sort of experiment, hence the name of this post. I will restrict myself to medically related headers for now, though I realize I could probably do even better if I named all my posts ‘Anne Hathaway Naked,’ but you get my point.
Since I don’t want to become a disgrace to the blogging industry, I plan to use header titles of non-fatal conditions like skin problems, nervous disorders, out-patient procedures, etc. I realize this could be a bust as the age cohort for people searching such terms is the same as my mother…”I looked at your blog but couldn’t figure out how to make a comment.”
I will report back with results in the near future. So, if you see a photo of Lake Tahoe on my blog with the title “Fibromyalgia”, well you know whats going on.
Some illnesses easily treated through a particular home remedy might help to crack that age-disparity problem. You’d be floored by how many twenty-year-olds have glaucoma.
A near pandemic of gluacoma among our youth and not a thin dime allocated for this in the Stimulus Package. Explain that to me…at least over nachos!
You show remarkable restraint avoiding the sexier, more deady illnesses. A lessor man would not been able to resist. I’ll be curious to learn the results.
Oddly enough, on my blog, the search engines seem to hum fastest when I mention alphagetti. Seriously.
Ram
Thanks Ram, if my current experiment doesn’t produce a large enough dataset, I think I may be forced to go with the alphagetti protocol.
Why limit your blog to hypochondriacs? try titles with Celebrity names or fad gadgets to get the kids to read the blog?
True enough Tony, which is why I am considering the “Anne Hathaway…Totally Naked” approach. Thanks for reading!
I agree with others that you should take it up a notch. Something along the lines of “My God, Rosie is an ugly beast”.
This way you get Rosie fans and haters. (Plus, I don’t think you can be sued for telling the truth. You could also try the name of that little troll that is dating the Lohan girl).
My favorite is “enlarged clitoris”. Sure it doesn’t bring the traffic of Sarah Palin but still, the fact that people want to know about enlarged clitoris’ is awesome!
I am taking all suggestions under advisement. Thanks all for your input.