This is a fun research post for my own purposes folks. You may actually want to try this at home and see what comes of it for you. What am I refering to?

I’ve been curious to delve more deeply into how effective Technorati’s own search metrics are in drawing traffic for us blogger types if we use the most popular keywords and search tags that they catalog.

For instance I put Ron Paul, Briteny Spears and Amazon’s new program DevPay in my title. Just for kicks I’m going to see if putting some of these “Top Search” terms in my post header generates any attention for MartyBLOGs.

I wonder if just a mention of nuffnang which refers to itself as Asia’s first blog advertising company will create any curiosity flow or will I have to write something substantive for the search engines to register my reference to them?

I think it goes without saying that iphone doesn’t need a lot of help because people are talking about it all the time. Can I yank some electrons without a weblink to the product? Let’s give it a try.

Ron Paul is getting a lot of attention for good reasons with negligible results. People who aren’t his official staffers are raising record amounts of funds online but he’s still non existent in the polls. It’s almost like the Ross Perot effect, but on someone else’s wallet.

John Edwards on the other hand is being accused of not being able to keep his penis in his pants. A staffer, Rielle Hunter, apparently is six months pregnant and claims that he’s the man. Can just a mention of two candidates names and a “chick on the side” in the text body create attention for MartyBLOGs? We’ll just have to wait and see won’t we?

Myspace and Google round out the first page of the list. I’ll link them since I’ve dabbled in each. Maybe I’ll get some backlink juice flow.

Here’s a copy of the first page of top tags (”frank rich” “ron paul” authority bacn barcampcologne2 britney facebook fashion galilea montijo google hot huckabee hurricane dean iphone life melayu bogel music myspace nick lachey pantyhose paris hilton photos skype sylar turzi utube vanessa minnillo video johana cardona video noelia web 2.0 yahoomail you tube). Considering that I’m still WordPress tag cloud illiterate I’m really curious to see what happens with this copy-paste right off of Technorati’s site.

I’m going to look into some of the assorted channels on Technorati one day to see what’s hot in different categories and see what I can toy around with search wise. So tell me readers how have you been using key words and phrases strategically to give your blog a boost?