Hypnotic SEO Strategy Finally Revealed by Jack Bauer on 24

What is the answer to the question I posed here on January 1st --

What do King Kong, Dr. Phil, Howard Stern, and a 40 year old virgin have in common?

And what was the secret stategy behind my asking that question?

Give up?

A few people took wild guesses, but no one got it on the nose. So let me finally reveal what I was covertly doing that day.

First, a little background...

I'm new to blogs. I began one after hearing SEO expert Brad Fallon www.bradfallon.com speak.

I found blog writing fun. There's freedom in writing about whatever is on my mind. I have to keep my articles at www.mrfire.com targeted on marketing and copywriting, but here I can wander around a bit.

Still, I also knew I needed readers. Else what's the blog for?

One of the first things I did was issue a news release at www.prwebdirect.com It was soft news, about an Internet skeptic (ah, Joe Vitale) who starts his first blog.

Who cares, right?

Still, the release was seen by 30,000 people.

And 1,000 people instantly rushed to this blog.

Not bad.

But like any good American, I wanted more.

On January 1, 2006, I was poking around the stats on my blog. I noticed a lot of people were coming here after searching for something I had written about, such as Chartreuse liquor or Agatha Christie.

That got me thinking about the idea of packing my next blog post with the top 15 most current search terms. So here's what I did --

I went to Zeitgeist at Google www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html There I found a list of the latest search terms, as seen below:

Zeitgeist This Week:

Top 15 Gaining Queries:

Week Ending December 19, 2005

1. mta strike
2. john spencer
3. jibjab
4. king kong
5. dr. phil
6. ny1
7. naomi watts
8. howard stern
9. rachel mcadams
10. west wing
11. 40 year old virgin
12. uma thurman
13. winter solstice
14. scarlett johansson
15. intelligent design

My next step was to write a post using as many of those key words as possible, but just once. I assumed the search engines would pick up my blog because of the embedded popular search terms, and that people searching on those terms would sometimes end up here.

So my question -- What do King Kong, Dr. Phil, Howard Stern, and a 40 year old virgin have in common? -- was simply designed to get search engines to notice me. Obviously, what Kong and the others had in common is they were on the Zeitgeist hot list.

I had no idea if this plan would work, but I figured it was worth a shot.

You may have guessed that was what I was up to. If so, good for you. You get a gold star on your forehead. (Take a look. It's there right now.)

But few people guessed my deeper strategy.

Keep reading --

I made sure I planted that same Jan. 1st blog post with links to my sites.

You'll note www.mrfire.com mentioned, as well as a link to my Executive Mentoring Program at http://www.joe-vitale-executive-mentoring.com/info.html

In short, my Hypnotic SEO Strategy is this:

1. Search engines will inventory my blog because it's now loaded with currently hot search terms.

2. Complete strangers will find my blog because they are searching for what is mentioned within it.

3. Some of these complete strangers will now go to my links. With luck, a few will buy something, or apply for my mentoring program, or at least sign up for my free ezine.

Whether this pays off or not is up for debate. Since it only took an hour or less to create the blog entry that could lead to sales, I think it's worth the tiny effort.

Ultimately, you'll always have better results making an offer to people on your own list, who already know you. That's a given.

But in the brave new world of blog marketing, it's wise to experiment.

After all, you don't have to be rich or famous to try this strategy.

All you have to be is willing and take action.

My monkey agrees.

Ao Akua,

Joe
Author, The Attractor Factor : 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth
(or Anything Else) from the Inside Out
www.mrfire.com

PS - My friend "fun diva" Christy Hoffman took a brilliant spin off of my Jan 1 post. She wrote me and said: "I blogged your entry on MY blog & gave my web site name too (www.christyHoffman.com is my blog) to see if I get any traffic." You'll note she commented on my Jan. 1 post on my blog, using hot search key words and also giving her website. Wise woman.

PPS - The above picture is from the hit TV show 24. It's the most hypnotic television show I've ever seen. It's more riveting than watching Britney Spears dance naked. And since many people will be typing the show name, or Jack Bauer, or Kiefer Sutherland, in their search engines over the weeks ahead, I wanted to mention them here to -- you guessed it -- get my blog noticed. Heh heh heh.