Holy cow! Google <3's me!
Jul. 4th, 2003 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaser(Yes, I know this is my third post in one night. Cope! :) )
Google has either gone insane or it loves me. When one searches for 'harry potter fanfic', my recs page comes up as the third result (of 23,500)! Not the third page of results, the third result on the first page. I'm pretty sure Google adds weight to rankings for the age of a page, and my page is not old at all, so this is really odd... I think I recall hearing that they add weight for frequent updates? If so, that might be where some of it is coming from, but still... the third result? Man! That rocks!
When you do a search for 'harry potter slash fanfic' I'm result number 18 (of 3,710). Doing a search for 'harry potter slash', I'm in the top 75 (of 25,300).
Gods, for 'harry potter fanfic recommendations' I'm number one (of 691) and for 'harry potter fanfic recs' I'm number one (of 669).
(For those who don't know, I used to work for a search engine and I've worked in webpage optimization (trying to get your site to rank higher with search engines), so I'm more interested in this than other people might be.)
Google has either gone insane or it loves me. When one searches for 'harry potter fanfic', my recs page comes up as the third result (of 23,500)! Not the third page of results, the third result on the first page. I'm pretty sure Google adds weight to rankings for the age of a page, and my page is not old at all, so this is really odd... I think I recall hearing that they add weight for frequent updates? If so, that might be where some of it is coming from, but still... the third result? Man! That rocks!
When you do a search for 'harry potter slash fanfic' I'm result number 18 (of 3,710). Doing a search for 'harry potter slash', I'm in the top 75 (of 25,300).
Gods, for 'harry potter fanfic recommendations' I'm number one (of 691) and for 'harry potter fanfic recs' I'm number one (of 669).
(For those who don't know, I used to work for a search engine and I've worked in webpage optimization (trying to get your site to rank higher with search engines), so I'm more interested in this than other people might be.)
