Oh Google, where do thou get thy Keywords from?

The traffic to Tassography has definitely increased since I started playing with Search Engine Optimzation (SEO). The Microsoft IIS SEO Toolkit has definitely helped me get my head around the common things to fix. Amusingly the traffic to the site continues to be less to do with my Photos and more to do with this Blog! According to Google’s Webmaster tools I’m appearing in a wider variety of search results now. Which pretty much matches the traffic I get into the site (from all Search Engines, not just Google).


(Google Webmaster Stats)	(Actually Hits from Search Engines)

“Facebook Bing” and “System.Windows.Imaging” have got to be the most surprising because you’d expect there to be plenty of references to those keywords across the internet. Digging further into Google’s data I started to get a little puzzled with the Keywords their crawler discovered. Of the top 30, 50% were not real keywords and shouldn’t really be indexed. The rest all made sense, except perhaps ‘windows’, I’m not sure why that tops blog & photos… Time for some additional research I think!

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