Blog topic suggestions with HitTail

If you’re at a loss about what you want to blog on your next post, worry no more. HitTail will, through analyzed searches and visits to your site, provide you with Suggestions that can help you increase traffic to your blog. HitTail supposedly works better than PPC in improving your web site ranking. Or so it claims.

HitTail reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results. We present these terms to you as suggestions that when acted on can boost the natural search results of your site.

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By utilizing a radically improved method for managing long lists on the Web, HitTail zeros right in on that data, showing you every search hit that has led to your site and then pulls out the keywords. HitTail then uses sophisticated algorithms to pull out underperforming terms as suggestions, which you may or may not choose to move into your to do list and act on. The more you take action by writing about these promising topics, the more your site snowballs.

The term long tail is often used in statistics. In the case of web site searching, long tail refers to the lesser-known terms related to the keyword that you searched. Theoretically, the combined traffic of these lesser-known terms may actually become higher than the most popular-used keywords, like so:

If you have used the Google Adwords Keyword Tool before, you may have noticed the suggested keywords that have low keyword search volume — those are the long tails. Take, for example, the word blogging. Related terms like blogs and blogger have high search volumes, whereas terms like pink is the new blog and underground blogs are just two terms that have almost nonexistent search volumes. Take a look carefully at the list, though. Among the 200 keywords or so generated for the term blogging, more than half of those are ranked as having low search volume.

To have HitTail work for you, here’s how to do it:

I’m trying it right now. I registered on the 13th of this month, and when I checked back on the 14th, there wasn’t any Suggestions, or Hits, as they call it. I assumed that although I had around 40 site hits on that same day, HitTail didn’t take them into its analysis since most of my traffic come from referrals, such as MyBlogLog, Technorati, and several other sites that I frequently visit.

It’s been 10 days, and sure enough, HitTail finally has something to show me. The snapshot below shows a summary of the popular keywords used. Basically, my search engine visits come from people looking for info on Akademi Fantasia, WordPress Top Commentator widget, Adman, and Harry Potter’s dick (oh, dear)!

From there, can you guess what topics HitTail suggested?

HitTail suggested me to blog on Akademi Fantasia and Hairy Radcliffe! Naughty!
In any case, I see this as a promising tool, and I especially love the Hit Suggestions section, no matter how outrageous its suggestion can be at times. Leave me your comments and thoughts on HitTail if you decide to use it.

By the way, I found out about HitTail by looking at the web site ads while visiting my visitors’ blogs (remember my previous post?). Hah!