Facibus On Blogging

I had a goal to become a top 100 Australian blogger.

Meg let me know last night that I’d made it. Celebration time tonight! (there is something else to celebrate, but more about that tomorrow).

Anyhow, to my blogging day on this special “Top 100″ occasion. I look at the mybloglog sidebar for this blog every day - randomly click on reader pictures and read their blogs, leave comments, and find out more about who they are and what brought them to Facibus On Blogging. I noticed that Swollen Pickles was a reader today.

Swollen Pickles runs experiments in keyword link/clickbaiting, and they are worth reading. Pickles has an excellent post today on combining keywords like the high-volume low-value Paris Hilton and the low-volume high-value forex trading.  I have to admit that the subject matter, while some might find it a little on the not suitable for work side, was an excellent example of  how people search. The Overture keyword selector tool shows that forex trading is a popular search term (over 76,000 searches in January 2007) but Paris Hilton is far more popular (nearly 1.7 million searches in January 2007).

I’d be interested how this works as a long-term blogging/money-making strategy - it will be worth some page views, sure, but will it bring in long-term readers? Is it better (even just in money-making terms) in the long run to have a solid long-term readership (depth) or a lot of one-click-wonders (breadth)?