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War Memorial, East Block and the Peace Tower( 06.01.06 )

I am normally not a big fan of taking tourist shots, and I told myself I would never do it, but I am posting this photo today for the sole purpose of search engine optimization and search engine ranking. (that and I have nothing else to post) I monitor my webstats and traffic very closely, borderline obessive compulsively. In fact, part of my new job is to monitor visitor pattern analysis; geeky I know, but I love it. After many months of tracking my site, I have discovered that people find me by looking for Ottawa touristy images. It's not the top key search term. I am proud to say that I get a least a dozen hits a day from people searching for mud wrestling or messy wrestling. It's not the best image, but it does have some of my favourite comments. I wish more people would leave me comments like that.

yo mud wrestling is so fun. sometimes i just go in my backyard, take the hose and spray all of the soil and then i roll around in the mud because it is so fun to get covered in mud. Posted by: Dan on 03.05.06

please teach us how to run the mud wrestling in Indonesia. We like to join this game. Regards, Adi Patrianto Posted by: adi patrianto on 05.18.06

Other search terms include : Xavier Rudd, Supreme Court of Canda, Direnzo's, and I am happy to say that just last week, people started hitting my site, looking for "things to use when masterbating." I knew that day would soon come.

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It's definietly interesting to see what search terms lead to your site. By far, our most popular image search terms are "pumpkin patch" and "jack frost".
Posted by: Joan on 06.01.06

excellent post. picture is too touristy for me ;) but an excellent post. i havent been lucky enough to get any interesting search terms, tho i'm sure my day will come.
Posted by: marc on 06.01.06

I like the angle you took on this photo, it looks like the clouds from a storm are moving in from the right. do you make spreadsheets and graphs and calculations for your stats? I do quite a bit of that for mediascrape
Posted by: bria on 06.01.06

Hahahaha ...
Posted by: andrew on 06.01.06

funny! what do you use for site stats? i'm basically just using Analog right now but I'd like something a bit more detailed...
Posted by: paul on 06.01.06

the most popular search phrase for my site is "sawed off shotgun". yes... that's how gangsta i am.
Posted by: schmee on 06.01.06

Why can't they ever spell "masturbating" correctly?
Posted by: e on 06.01.06

*sniff* I'm so proud.
Posted by: billfremore on 06.01.06

A technical note on the search engine thing. Firefox browsers will pre-fetch the top link from a google search by default ... even if the user never clicks on it. Since your blog sees the reference, maybe not all those deviants are actually hitting your page ;) See http://www.google.com/help/features.html#prefetch and http://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html#prefetching
Posted by: Bill Mc on 06.01.06

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I am normally not a big fan of taking tourist shots, and I told myself I would never do it, but I am posting this photo today for the sole purpose of search engine optimization and search engine ranking. (that and I have nothing else to post) I monitor my webstats and traffic very closely, borderline obessive compulsively. In fact, part of my new job is to monitor visitor pattern analysis; geeky I know, but I love it. After many months of tracking my site, I have discovered that people find me by looking for Ottawa touristy images. It's not the top key search term. I am proud to say that I get a least a dozen hits a day from people searching for mud wrestling or messy wrestling. It's not the best image, but it does have some of my favourite comments. I wish more people would leave me comments like that. yo mud wrestling is so fun. sometimes i just go in my backyard, take the hose and spray all of the soil and then i roll around in the mud because it is so fun to get covered in mud. Posted by: Dan on 03.05.06 please teach us how to run the mud wrestling in Indonesia. We like to join this game. Regards, Adi Patrianto Posted by: adi patrianto on 05.18.06 Other search terms include : Xavier Rudd, Supreme Court of Canda, Direnzo's, and I am happy to say that just last week, people started hitting my site, looking for "things to use when masterbating." I knew that day would soon come.
More Ottawa Photos :: Comments (9) It's definietly interesting to see what search terms lead to your site. By far, our most popular image search terms are "pumpkin patch" and "jack frost". Posted by: Joan on 06.01.06 excellent post. picture is too touristy for me ;) but an excellent post. i havent been lucky enough to get any interesting search terms, tho i'm sure my day will come. Posted by: marc on 06.01.06 I like the angle you took on this photo, it looks like the clouds from a storm are moving in from the right. do you make spreadsheets and graphs and calculations for your stats? I do quite a bit of that for mediascrape Posted by: bria on 06.01.06 Hahahaha ... Posted by: andrew on 06.01.06 funny! what do you use for site stats? i'm basically just using Analog right now but I'd like something a bit more detailed... Posted by: paul on 06.01.06 the most popular search phrase for my site is "sawed off shotgun". yes... that's how gangsta i am. Posted by: schmee on 06.01.06 Why can't they ever spell "masturbating" correctly? Posted by: e on 06.01.06 sniff I'm so proud. Posted by: billfremore on 06.01.06 A technical note on the search engine thing. Firefox browsers will pre-fetch the top link from a google search by default ... even if the user never clicks on it. Since your blog sees the reference, maybe not all those deviants are actually hitting your page ;) See http://www.google.com/help/features.html#prefetch and http://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html#prefetching Posted by: Bill Mc on 06.01.06 Post a comment Name: Email: URL: Comment: Remember info?