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Posted By: Rick K. In Response To: I've calmed down a bit.... (MaaMaw)
Thursday, 14 April 2005, at 10:41 a.m.
> When I use Adword Analyzer, it shows 49,875 searches last month on
> Overture -- so I assume there would be even more on Google (but I'm not
> quite sure how that works?).
> Also, when I search it on Google, only the first page is ugly stuff. The
> next two or three pages are "blowout" sales (then back to the
> ugly stuff).
If you put it plainly in your description that this deals with weight loss, that may grab a few visitors.
The top-ranked page at Google has a pr of 2, and the ones under it have a pr of 0.
You can probably grab #2 spot pretty easily.
BUT, from what I've seen, the people are searching for the exploding whale video. (If you get a chance, read Dave Berry's article about it...hilarious!!)
One thing I would consider carefully, besides the "disgusting blog" and the exploding whale, the term "blubber" is considered derogoratory and might not lead to good traffic.
Think about it, in school the kids called the fat ones "blubber gut" and such, and I believe that a weight-loss site with "blubber" in the title might not be such a good idea.
Remember Susan Powter? The woman who looked like her hair was cut by a chainsaw? She made a mint with her "Stop the Insanity" book. Got her own TV show. Made a mint off of helping people lose weight and inspiring them.
"Stop the Insanity!" was a good verbal and written hook, it got folks to wondering: "What Insanity? What's she talking about??" and Susan's story took it from there. Plus the title was memorable.
"Formerly Fat", in my opinion, is a much better name. BUT, the competition is stronger. The top ten results have a pr of 3-5, with one pr of 0 that has many backlinks. But the top 10 are not SE optimized, so you'd have a good chance of beating them out.
Besides, why are you concerned about being personally attached to it? If you're emotionally involved, then that message will come across in your writing and transmit itself to your visitors. It'll make your site more believeable, more real to your visitors.
Judging from my somewhat jaded viewpoint (from studying so many websites) a website that is strictly set up to make the owner money comes across as bland, uninteresting, and I click off of it.
The "personally involved" websites are the ones that get my attention.
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