Philip Gamble: freeg131

Topical blog posts quite obviously result in increased traffic, particularly from Google. Take for example my article entitled Lewis Hamilton Robbed of Victory. I had a comment from someone called Dave, I don’t know anyone called Dave, so I googled the article title and found I was the top result. (This is no longer the case as mainstream media and Google News have now taken the top 3 spots). The Lewis post is the second most viewed here this month, behind a topical Olympics post.

Over on GameMaker Blog the discovery of Malware on the official community forum lead to a 50% increase in daily visits, pageviews and uniques to the site.  At one stage I even set up an f1fanatic style live blog – although mostly just to play around with it – this is the first breaking GM news in years.

So, I have decided, at some point I will set up a blog with the sole intention of getting traffic from google on current affairs and topical news stories.