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 Permalinks and Keywords

Everyday as I trek along the path to learning search engine optimization, I stumble upon some little tricks to getting web traffic.

 Today, I learned about Peremlinks. Each post in your blog is given a unique url. I’ve been using WordPress’s default settings.

• Default
• Date and name based
• Numeric
• Custom

The default will create a url with a /?p=123. From what I understand (theory) if you change it to include date and name based, the title of your post will in up in the new url giving it a greater chance to be picked up by the search engines.

Traffic Report Week ending 4/12/08

This week I’ve been able to increase or double my traffic on a few days just from the forums and Entrecard. The spike in last Saturday’s traffic came from my post entry into StumbleUpon. Interesting enough, some of my post didn’t generate hardly any traffic at all from StumbleUpon.

What I realize this week activities is I can only go so far with the sources I’m using now. I’ve decided to bring out the video camera. I’m going to venture into video blogging. I’m planning to create a video blog on the social networks about my personal life. Kind of like a soap opera. That means I have to create a life of drama now.  I’m going to document how much traffic this will generate.