Long time readers of this blog will probably remember me describing MSN as a very cheap date in terms of SEO. Well, perhaps I shouldn’t have been so dismissive: she’s now my #3 source of hits (after Google AdWords and, er, this blog oddly enough) and my #1 source of sales for last week. Apparently she’s rather popular with non-technical audiences, just judging from the search queries I’m getting. I’m flabbergasted that I get the rank I do for some of these: you would think “bingo cards” would be a fairly competitive search (cough gambling cough) term but somehow I’m still on the first page.
In other news, I think the Google Dance has begun. I got a sudden spike of traffic from them yesterday, far higher than my previous peak, and its mostly for people *not* searching for “bingo card creator” so it can’t be a warez release or something. Maybe I got moved up in the PageRank or something for all these minor searches. Ironically, my conversion for Google organic searches is terrible (10%) because most people are looking for Dolch sight word lists and get them and leave without trying my software. Sigh.
Speaking of search engine results: for the 5 people who found this blog looking for “Bingo Card Creator registration key”: you’ll find it in the mail you got after you purchased the software. If you didn’t get that mail and expected to, send me a quick email (my first name @bingocardcreator.com) and we’ll get you squared away in a jiffy. Oh, and if you didn’t know where you can get a registration key, that would be here. Try the big red button on the right side of the page, you can’t miss it.
How lucrative is the business of bingo card designing. I imagine there is a market for it, but I cannot see how people will be screaming out to but them online. I guess supplying for companies like Rank would be a very lucrative venture.