A Search Engine Optimisation Poem

One of the things we poetry bloggers (pologgers??) have to consider is, how the heck do people find me in the vast cultural wasteland of the internet?

Now Google says, “just write content that’s engaging!” Well, that’s true to some extent, and it’s also true that my lovely Facebook page followers do “like” and “share” my rhymes, which helps enormously. But there’s a but.

Say this was a blog about badgers. I would naturally mention the word “badgers” a fair bit, thereby enhancing my site’s Google-badgeriness.

But here, how many of my poems contain the word “poem”? Kebabs get two mentions. Even knobs get one. But “poetry”? Not so much.

Therefore I challenged myself to write a poem that contains each of the words “poetry”, “poem”, “rhyme”, “funny” and “humorous” at least three times – while still being fun for humans. 🙂

Search Engine Optimisation Poem

I wrote this rhyme for SEO,

To help improve my spot,

Humans shouldn’t read it though –

It’s just for Googlebots.

I’ve written humorous poetry,

That people “like” and “share”,

But words like “poem” and “poetry”,

Don’t feature much in there.

See, I don’t write poems on poems,

And I don’t write rhymes on rhymes,

And I know no funny poetry,

That mentions “fun” three times.

Do YOU like poems, Googlebots?

Appreciate their form?

Does your coding know they’re funny?

Find them humorous and warm?

Do you cackle at my couplets,

Rate my rhyming to the max?

Do you file them under “funny”

In your Google Filofax?

Well if not, I’ll give you keywords

Such as “humorous” and “fun”,

Look Google! Here’s some poetry,

Now put me on page one.

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