Carolyn Middlebrook Is Not My Name
People often call me Carolyn Middlebrook which is incorrect, it’s spelled Caroline. There is a difference, in the UK at least. Over here there is a difference in pronunciation. You pronounce the last syllable in Carolyn like you would the last in Violin but with Caroline, it’s pronounced like line!
Why am I waffling on about my name? Um well actually, this is an SEO experiment. I have been noticing with interest that my search traffic has been climbing quite steadily over the last few months so obviously this blog now has the ability to generate search traffic but the vast majority of it is from single search terms - there’s not many terms that are searched for over and over which tells me that I’m not optimising too well.
So I’ve been reading a LOT about SEO over the last week or so and today I had a look through my search traffic for the last month and decided to just pick a term that is already getting some traffic and see if I can rank better for it. I chose Carolyn Middlebrook because it’s easy to write a post about :-)
At first I wondered why I would be ranking for it at all but it’s obvious really - people write Carolyn in the comments quite often - proof that all those lovely comments get ranked.
So this means that I’m probably going to be ranking for some highly dubious terms thanks to Mr Mark Mason and some recent comments he left in jest :-)
Oh and just in case you didn’t realise, my name isn’t Carolyn Middlebrook :) I hope I didn’t stuff the keyword in too many times! This is a pointless post for you guys so I’ve published it just minutes before the next post comes out so it doesn’t hog my front page for too long!
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Andre Kibbe
April 19, 2008
I have been noticing with interest that my search traffic has been climbing quite steadily over the last few months so obviously this blog now has the ability to generate search traffic but the vast majority of it is from single search terms - there’s not many terms that are searched for over and over which tells me that I’m not optimising too well.
That might have more to do with using your name rather than your theme to title your blog. I remember Yaro mentioning you at one point, then I forgot the reference. Then I suddenly had an urge to look up the Twitter guide (long before it had a SERP 1), but couldn’t think of your name. It didn’t take much time or effort to find your blog, but it wasn’t instant either.
Not that it matters now, but combining your name with your theme (e.g. “Internet Marketing with Caroline”, etc.) might have been an SEO-friendly way to go.