Long tail keywords and website optimization

The long tail graph

I was wondering what to write about this week and while going over the blog’s stats I found that a few visitors came to my blog using SEO terms I didn’t activley optimize for. I might have written about those subjects but I certainly didn’t expect to get traffic from searches on those terms.

For example, I wrote a post about social media bookmarking but then I was actually optimizing my posts for the term “Clifinar”. 

Currently, there are about 9,270,000 search results for social media bookmarking in Google and my blog comes up second (right after wikipedia).