Here are some current search result placings in Google for some terms that probably should at least reveal us as candidates:
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Not that great.
Aiming for #1 is not that realistic, attainable, nor even desirable for us as a community. But to attract the right sort of people who can do sites justice with TXP via clear, professional designs we've go to put ourselves about a bit more and make the spiders hear us.
So, what terms should we be looking to attract from search bots? What seems a logical search criteria for geeks may not be logical to web designers. For example, someone who knows about web design, blogging and CMSs might search for “CMS”, whereas more visual folk might search for “how do I maintain a web site more easily”. Our primary audience is perhaps this 2nd ctageory so we should at least look towards being placed better for combinations of words designers might use when faced with the prospect of creating and maintaining a web site.
Once a good, solid list is compiled we can start to think of ways to shoe-horn them into the pages for utmost relevance. And I think this list needs to focus on multi-word searches, since scoring highly for single words (outside “textpattern”) is a long shot.
These are well searched for (according to Google Adwords and Yahoo):