Search Engine Confusion.After going a little over two months without blogging (
even though there were several times which I wished I'd posted something) I've been struck with a new twisty little challenge.
SEO.
I, myself, am not particularly concerned with optimization, making myself easier to find, give a rats ass about pagerank or any of that bullshit, but I know people who do care, and since the logic behind the great systems (
like google) is all hidden and speculated upon, I thought I'd do a minor bit of investigation.
This blog is (
as of this post) ranked #1 for "shawrkbyte" as well it should, considering the word is made up by me as the
full moniker for my online persona. Oddly, it is ranked 4th for "shawrk" even with my handle featured in content and title exploded with spaces (
that's right, "shawrk" never appeared in this blog). This is the SEO premise of how others link to you at work... but it isn't true. Checking
Google's cache for ShawrkByte.com shows that even exploded, their system picked it up as a word. Fascinating.
But, the reason I'm posting is because of the previous title:
Death to blogging. I searched for it, and this blog came in
9th. However, the intention behind the phrase isn't caught in the search term, and that is readily apparent by reading all the results.
- Comment Spam solutions Kill Blog Search Indexing at ProtoTypen.com
- Blogging as Competition to the Mainstream Media at BlindMindsEye.com
- 404 Error at BlindMindsEye.com (dead link?)
- The Golden Age of Blogs at FinlandForThought.net
- Forged Passports at BloggingItReal.BlogSpot.com (you'll have to scroll or find)
- Blogging is a Hobby at Asseptic.org (he didn't stop either)
- Greek Island Hopping at Chrysos.TypePad.com
- 404 Error at DaveCopeland.com (restructuring site)
- Officially Tired of Blogging at ShawrkByte.com (I should search for that term in a couple of months)
- Seepage Stain Reveals Image of God - NOT at WISIWUG.BlogSpot.com
So, for documentation purposes, I've grabbed these links. Eventually the content will die (
as a couple already have), and some day this blog will too, but until then, we can see how others interpretted the usage of the phrase, and how at least one search engine tried to show me what I wanted to see.
