Well, here is a lesson in Search Engine Optimization and keyword selection at its absolute best.

Before today, a Google search for the term “died in a blogging accident” would have returned a grand total of 2 results. However, thanks to the website xkcd, the term now fetches more than 3,000 results (as of this writing).

It is now known if the writer intended for this to happen, but this is an excellent lesson in how the proper content matched with a particular term can rocket your web site to the number one position for a given search term.

Now, I have never personally had a need to search for this term on Google, and hopefully I never will. But what intrigues me about this particular search term is that, at one point during the last 12 hours, this term returned more than 7,000 results.

Perhaps Google’s algorithm can determine the difference between spam posts on a popular term and the quality posts.

This event can certainly help you to gain an understanding of search terms and how they effect the overall scheme of things. You may want to continue to watch this term for a few days.