Foreign Perspectives

Actually, this post is about none of those at all. They’re just some of the keywords that have been picked up recently by various news aggregation services that scan this blog so I can be fairly confident that this particular post will do well in terms of collecting inbound links for me.

The growth in news aggregators has led to a steady growth in the number of inbound links that I’ll collect for particular posts. Some are obvious: mention “Ireland” and I get picked up by the Irish blogs, “travel”, “credit” or “loans” and you get picked up by loads of financial aggregators. “Travel” is more hit and miss though as the travel aggregators tend to target particular destinations rather than “travel” in general.

“People search” is a peculiar one. Apparently it’s a very popular search term though I only came across it by chance.

I’m actually only throwing “sex” in for curiosity value. Rumour has it that it’s one of the most popular search terms on the Internet but, so far, I’ve never had a single inbound link from it!

Surprisingly, there are quite a number of blog aggregators which collect immigration information and it’s a topic that I touch on quite regularly.

Last, but not least, this particular post will mess with google’s algorithm in respect of this blog. Their algorithm relies on “natural” incoming links and this particular post will create quite a lot of them for me over the next few days. None will be paid for so on google’s argument they are legit incoming links which’ll boost my pagerank a little bit. Will any of them be  truly legitimate incoming links? Somehow, I doubt it.