So, the new website has been live for about a month. How are people finding me? Are they people curious about fine art photography? Do they appreciate my black and white work, or my panoramic imagery? Here are my top five search strings.
- broken clavicle
ayer's rock
broken scapula
doug plummer
broken collar bone x-ray
Apparently I’m a hit with broken bike riders. It’s all because I wrote a piece about my bike accident, 8 years ago. It’s been in my archives ever since. Have a bike accident, Google your broken shoulder, and apparently I come up with great frequency (however, I just tried it with these terms and I couldn’t find me). Nonetheless, I get about an email a week from some bicyclist with a broken shoulder who wants to know what he (it’s always a he) should do. An osteopathic college is even using my account as a teaching aid for their students.
Ayer’s Rock? I took a trip to Australia in 1996, and the travelogue has been buried deep in the sedimentary layers of the website ever since. I still get emails asking for trip advice.
The search terms for Dispatches has more variety. Typepad does something amazing regarding the search engines: I’m always in the top ten in any of these search strings. Here are the ten most recent.
- museo silver rag epson 2400
common language for keywording photography, peter krogh
ooh that feels good
snowy owl sightings skagit
tune sets contra dance
naked parade fremont
fremont solstice painting party
bare breast in art
"no connectivity" bubble wireless hotel
black and white with epson 4800
A poetic mix, don’t you think? Maybe I should try reading it at a slam.
Yeah, the internet is funny-- my top search phrases are "Photoshop CS3" (#7) and "Jim Fiscus technique" (#3).
But I don't think either of us writes consistently on one topic enough to have high occurrences of keywords relevant to what we do...
Posted by: Josh Wand | September 23, 2006 at 09:30 PM