… is that things that have long vanished from the front page of a blog continued to be discovered (thanks to the like of Google Blog Search, Technorati and the like.)
One of the top search terms for my blog?
Cambell-Ewald.
Because I slammed their YouTube video outreach efforts.
To their credit, Campbell-Ewald has done a good job of search engine optimization. (I am in the top 10 of Google, but for a more flattering follow-up I wrote.)
In a searchable online world, your reputation is harder and harder to protect. Search may forgive.
But it never forgets.
Update: An interesting addendum to my point about search from Alice at Presto Vivace.
Update: Lots of visitors from Campbell-Ewald today… any of you care to share? Would love to hear from you in the comments.
As an Army Soldier, wiht a blog, who is generally unwilling to spend money on blogging, is there anything I can do by way of search engin optimization?
Something happened in early March on my history blog (This Day in US Military History) and it’s traffic has rocketed, going from 15 hits a day to over 100, overnight and it’s almost exclusively Google hits.