June 21, 2009 – Some ‘weird’ things have been happening for the term ‘odd news’ I spent another few days down on page 3/4 and now am back to the home page in 6th position. I am starting to wonder if the big ‘G’ is doing some hand editing on these results and moving up major news sources. Traffic is still brisk but I notice less comments coming through so maybe having ‘odd news’ buried is hurting the overall quality of visitors.

June 21, 2009 – Exciting news! It seems the little title tag tweak has really had a positive effect. I am back on page one and in the number 5 position. I can almost taste the number 1-2 position and am going to figure out my next move shortly. I have been thinking about doing a little guest blogging and trying to earn a few more inbound links that way.

June 16, 2009 – A bit of bad news but it is expected, I have moved down to the third page for the term ‘odd news’ – so far I am not noticing a large effect on overall traffic but I am still hoping it bounces back soon.

Now for a bit of good news, I wrote a fake news post that did very well and received over 1,700 views in the first 30 hours – there was also some excitement because the person who’s work I portrayed in the image of the post contacted me asking for credit, which I have gladly given.

June 2, 2009 – I am hoping to garner a little insight into whether ‘keyword dilution’ in title tags is a myth or a reality by using my most successful test site, www.AllWeirdNews.com as a bit of a guinea pig. If you look down below I have previously done some testing on this site by altering its title tags and the results have been quite impressive. This time it is a very minor change, I am removing the ‘all’ from the first word of the title because it doesn’t help with search and I don’t think it helps with click-thrus either. I am not expecting huge ranking moves from this but even if I can move up one rank on some of my more competitive keywords it could have a dramatic effect on my traffic.