I’ve been search engine optimized, and no matter how many times I clear my screen, I still feel like google click bait. Not only did LSJ lecturer Chris Wheel ask us to consistently use our names in urls and usernames, he also made us start blogging.
Baking recipes, knitting and “look what I’m wearing today”-selfies flashed before my eyes in what professionals would probably call a blog anxiety attack: Was I really to enter this look-at-me sphere?
On the other hand, my name and work on top of google searches sounded pretty sweet. I can’t say I’d mind readers and potential employees finding me online. After all no one works this hard to become a writer for diaries and random loo walls.
I wonder though what people want to read about. What are they searching for in this jungle of available information and how much magic can search engine optimization work?
Let’s say I write an article about the pebble in my shoe and use the right headline, key words, headline and url, will someone actually read it? I can’t wait to find out.
