After losing my PR4 and being awarded a happy goose-egg, I found that my Google traffic actually increased by 30%. When I did a search on some of the key words I had used, I found that I had lost a bit on “Jason Reiko”, “Jason Vancouver” and “Jason Japan”. In all of these cases, it wasn’t a huge loss.

One area where I really cleaned up after getting the PR slap was the with the keywords “Jason Random”. It seems that this is something often searched for on Google (why, I’ll never know), by people all over the world. Since January of 2008, I’ve managed to get over 900 hits from unique IPs, all coming from a localized Google site, with the search phrase “Jason Random”.

Maybe there’s some cool guy by that name that I’m not aware of … but I’m not arguing with the traffic.

That said, since regaining half of my previous PR, I’ve noticed no improvement in ratings for long-established keywords on Google.

Anyone else notice the same thing?

If you’re interested in a stats package that easily integrates with WordPress, FireStats may be what you’re looking for.

That said, I’ve recently re-enabled Analytics on my site in an attempt to woo Google into granting me my old PageRank. In the last week, I was raised to a PR2 from the happy PR0 levied in January for my paid post shenanigans

When in Rome….

Over the last few months, I’ve become a big user of Google Blog Search, another way of getting traffic from a clever use of keywords. Unfortunately, I can’t tell which traffic comes from Google Web Search, and which from Google Blog Search. They seem to be wrapped up as one in Google Analytics.

Getting good rankings for Keywords and Terms is an interesting topic and one i’m always looking to improve on … i find the search engine traffic to be very valuable in getting greater exposure across the internet.