Science Fiction Keywords
The main key to success on the internet is keywords. 99% of all of your readers find their way to your site by doing searches on Google (and now Bing) looking for keywords. If you want to have readers that will stick with you, you have to have the right keywords in order to lure and trap them.
The Crotchey Old Fan has a post about this. His is in reference to text ads and their keywords, but such talk can get you in trouble, so I will mention no mentions.
I have borrowed his keyword list (in exchange I offer a very valuable link back to his site).
Here is what Steve wrote:
Please bear with me: Science Fiction. Sci Fi. SciFi. Speculative Fiction. Spec Fic. SpecFic. Genre Fiction. Steampunk. Cyberpunk. Greenpunk. Space Opera. Science Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. High Fantasy. Sword and Sorcery. Military SF. Hard SF. New Wave SF. Paranormal Fantasy. Donkey Kong.
Neil Gaiman. Charlie Stross. John Scalzi. Cory Doctorow. Robert Sawyer. Nick Mamatas. Robert Heinlein. Arthur C Clarke. Isaac Asimov. A. Bertram Chandler. David Drake. Mike Resnick. Edward Lerner. Larry Niven. Eric Flint. John Ringo. Baxter. Weber. Ellison. Delany. Silverberg. Piper. Russell. Brown. Ooops! Cherryh. Bradford. Butler. Russ. Wilhelm. Norton. Bradley. Ursula LeGuin.
Tor. Baen. Angry Robot. Haikasoru. Subterranean Press. DAW. Del Rey. Ace.
Fandom. Fanzine. Worldcon. Hugo Award. Nebula Award.
Donkey Kong?
Yes, Donkey Kong.
I didn’t write that list of keywords from some master list – it was just free-form remembering and as I got to the end of that portion of the list ‘donkey kong’ just popped into my head.
Don’t know why – probably don’t want to know why – although I do suspect that a long-term association between science fiction and king kong – via Sam Lundwall’s books Science Fiction: What’s It All About and 2018 or The King Kong Blues – may have something to do with it….