Archive for May, 2010

I released the Search Engine Keywords Related Posts Widget

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

I was hesitant to release this widget because it is so hard to describe. It does something simple. It shows a list of posts that match the keywords used in a search engine query. You never know what surfers are going to search for, so this extracts the keywords of every search and makes a list of related posts. They are related to the keywords, and not the page that they land on.

Google will drop users on what it sees is the most popular page for the keywords, but it may not be the best match. By matching the Google keywords to other posts, the users are more likely to hang around and try other pages on your site.

This is a simple idea, but hard to describe, hence the long title and obscure description. I think it is useful, but it may be a hard sell.

The guys at WordPress.org will get around to approving the widget in a few days, and I’ll see then how it does.