This and two other posts bring in about 800 page views a day just on Google image searches. It’s very, very important to label your images with SEO in mind.

Here’s the link to the post if you guys want to explore how I SEO ‘d it.

http://mssinglemama.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/thomas-would-kick-mickey-mouses-ass-elmo-would-watch/

With each new post the trailing tail gets a little bit longer.

Essentially, the Long Tail is what you might call the open field of perfect competition. That is, more and more things (e.g. information) is becoming freer (a lot of blog content that is free today would have been paid for five or ten years ago).

So the real interesting thing about the Long Tail is that in order to be profitable or to stand out, whatever you offer has to be, as Seth Godin rightly points out, *remarkable*. Being the best isn’t good enough.

And the Long Tail is also about Democracy. It means that the little gal (or guy) can have a voice to be heard–if it’s remarkable.

I once remarked that Twitter is the sound of the Long Tail wagging.

Twitter is an instance of the reach of the Long Tail. Before Twitter, it would have cost a lot of time and effort to reach someone like Eric or Darren or Guy Kawasaki for instance. today, it’s possible to be hear by these A-Listers (assuming they follow you).

Then again, FriendFeed is another beast with a Long Tail. And when that creature starts to really thrash about, look out!

Well-thought out and informative post, Eric.

But analyzing my stats, I see that some of my favorite posts, like one about Frank Lloyd Wright’s Doghouse, are still bringing in great traffic.

So my web video goes in my long tail file to keep bringing me traffic (and working it’s way up YouTube as well). And it also got me a gallery showing of my artwork, which is something I’ve been dreaming of for a long time. So you never know what your king content might bring you.

I just needed a new way to look at what I thought was a disappointment. Now, I see it as a solid investment in my blog and my future.

Thanks, Eric! :-)

However, let us not forget also the search engines. Keyword density also helps our posts make a long tail in blogging.

As I am checking my visitors through http://www.e-referrer.com I notice that some of my posts are landing on top of the 1st page of Google Search.

Truly gives to show that older content is definitely not something dusting away in your archives but still material which is actively being read by people.

My blog will be affected by this phenomenon. It is a travel blog, and while some posts will be more relevant at the time of posting than later, such as latest holiday offers, chaos at Heathrow’s Terminal 5, etc, some articles will retain their relevance for years to come, eg: sights of Paris, best cities for seeing Renaissance art, and so on.

My mathematician’s eye has spotted something though – you have displayed a graph without labelling its axes, shock, horror. ;-) I assume that the vertical axis is sales/hits, and that the horizontal is mainstream – non-mainstream?

If anyone else out there is new to professional blogging and looking to connect with others in the same boat, check out my blog. It chronicles steps taken to develop a standalone niche blog. I just wrote yesterday about Darren Rowse’s Thursday night Webcast.

The challenge is to have enough interesting content to make these people stay…

My blog is still young, just a few week old, just getting few traffic but I’m looking forward if this “long tail” will truly affect my blog.

Tnx again darren, I’m a fan..