One lucky reader will have a chance to eat with a green prophet… maybe.
Tonight, one amazing eco-minded reader will have the opportunity to enjoy a delicious baba-ghanoush dinner at Masdar City with one of our very own green prophets. And yes, Israeli porno is on the menu. If you believe that, then I’m afraid you are an April Fool. But there is method to our madness. Find out why we used this particular title after the break.
The title “Baba Ghanoush Dinner And Israeli Porno With Green Prophet At Masdar City” reflects an interesting challenge that we green prophets face in our pursuit to disseminate environmental news in the vast and nebulous digital world.
We are competing with more than 25.21 billion indexed webpages and trying to attract the attention of two billion people worldwide who use the web in an information environment that travels at breakneck pace.
Our success depends in part on how well we understand Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This is a technique that we use, along with millions of other bloggers and businesses, to generate traffic. In a nutshell: SEO requires strategic use and placement of certain key words.
We have to anticipate the words people use when they go online to find information, use them, and then strategically link those terms with stories in our archives. And we have to do this without compromising the quality of our news.
“Google accounts for nearly half of all Internet searches. Yahoo! and MSN are the next most popular search sites,” according to Microsoft.
These are the five most frequently searched terms (taken from Google trends) for March 31, 2011: yankees, cincinnati reds, ocelot, atlanta braves, and the room.
So, what does this have to do with Baba Ghanoush and Israeli porno? It turns out that the words chosen in our title are among the most popular terms that draw attention to our site.
Does this mean that we are going to start writing about Israeli porn? Not any time soon, but we will keep you up to date on the best baba ghanoush recipes available, and the unfolding developments at the “world’s first carbon-neutral city” – Masdar.
Happy April everyone.
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Author: Tafline Laylin
As a tour leader who led “eco-friendly” camping trips throughout North America, Tafline soon realized that she was instead leaving behind a trail of gas fumes, plastic bottles and Pringles. In fact, wherever she traveled – whether it was Viet Nam or South Africa or England – it became clear how inefficiently the mandate to re-think our consumer culture is reaching the general public. Born in Iran, raised in South Africa and the United States, she currently splits her time between Africa and the Middle East. Tafline can be reached at tafline (at) greenprophet (dot) com.
LOL! I got more than a few ideas from your article for topics that we haven’t yet written about…wait, we did write about porno! Green porno. 🙂