I’m on the MaxBlogPress mailing list, and a few days ago Pawan released a new plugin for WordPress that I am having way too much fun with. It’s all sneaky & snoopy, but I foresee it as being very useful, especially for my adult websites.
The plugin in question is called Psychic Search, and it essentially tracks what people search for on your website. I installed it last night and, looking at the records it’s pulling up for this website… um, I see that someone searched for… “poop”. Okay, that’s rather strange, but you get the picture.
Not only is this going to be pretty amusing for me (I’m the kind of weird person who gets a kick out of watching those live search engine feeds where you can see all the stuff random people are looking for on Google and the like), it’s also going to be a good kind of “secret weapon” for finding out what my audience wants to see. For example: I have the plugin installed on liquidLOVEonline & I noticed that my top search was for Sandee Westgate… the only problem was, I had no galleries of her for my surfers to find. So I remedied that this morning by creating a new gallery featuring the lovely Ms. Westgate.
I’m hoping that this gives me an edge, knowing what my readers are looking for and being able to deliver it so that I can hopefully maximize my conversions. Even if it doesn’t impact my sales at all, though… it’s still pretty fun to see what people are looking for!
February 9th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Thanks for the tip; I’m looking into MAXBounty today. Wow, that is rad that you do OK just off sites. I do freelance web design and some days I made more money than I need and other days I can barely scrape together my half of rent, let alone pay any bills.
That is very sneaky (and genius) to find what readers are looking for. I’m sure it will help you out tremendously.
This is a great blog, BTW… always helpful and/or insightful.
February 10th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I have a similar plugin on my wordpress sites, I don’t get anything cool like poop though
February 10th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
PS.. trades lesson aint over yet!
February 10th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Oooh Neat! I’m going to install some of those plugins.
February 28th, 2008 at 7:47 am
[…] You know, I may just be eternally in love with Pawan Agrawal, the guy who runs MaxBlogPress. The guy is constantly coming out with new, amazingly cool/useful WordPress plugins. The other day I raved about his newly-launched Psychic Search plugin; you can see my ravings about it in this blog post. […]