Tracking my Search Engine Visitors by Elliott C. Back

Tracking my Search Engine Visitors

Posted in Blogging, My Blog, Code, Plugins, SEO by Elliott Back on October 25th, 2005.

Using my Wordpress From/Where plugin you can track the most popular search terms on your blog. Here, they fall into the following categories:

1) Web 2.0 Product: (Google Earth, Xuqa, Windows Vista 5231, Google Maps, IE7
2) Celebrity and/or sex: (Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, naruto sex, disney xxx
3) Blogging: (blog names)
4) Code: (java enum)
5) Deals or Hacking: (jetblue coupon, windows vista crack, REALBASIC 2005 CRACK)

This is rather sad. I would rather implement some kind of clustering algorithm, but I don’t know much about it. Anyone want to tell me how given 30,000 keywords I can compute similar clusters and only store those?

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3 Responses to 'Tracking my Search Engine Visitors'

Bill Lazar said:
on October 25th, 2005 at 3:47 pm

Depending on the level of activity you’re talking about, you could use the Tagyu API (http://www.tagyu.com) to submit the set of terms and take back the #1 matching/suggested tag as cluster name.
Elliott Back said:
on October 25th, 2005 at 3:52 pm

This isn’t really relevant. I can extract tags based on text myself using any number of technologies. What I want to do is take a set of tags and automatically group them.
Bill Lazar said:
on October 25th, 2005 at 4:17 pm

Okay, that was different than what I thought