Alexander Georgiadis wrote:
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OK, get ready to hear the strangest thing. Ready? Here goes:
Like many of you that have websites, I subscribe to a site monitoring
service (statcounter in my case) which I check occasionally to see how
many visitors I am getting, what link they came from, which part of the
world etc. One of the reports statcounter supplies is called "recent
keyword activity". This tells me what words people typed into search
engines like Google or Yahoo to find my website. As I am a Canadian
photographer working in Shanghai, so I typically see "shanghai
photographer" or "shanghai portrait photographer" etc. as the search
terms. No surprises. Until today.
This is so strange; someone had typed in the words "bloody photography"
into Google search. A little weird right? It gets weirder! So naturally,
I replicated the search myself. Surprise! MY SITE IS AT THE TOP of the
search page if the quotation marks are included and no 5 of 1,360,000
pages if they are excluded.
OK now I'll wait while you try the search
yourself...............................finished? Cool right? It all
might make sense if I the word "bloody" actually appeared on my page.
But it does not. It never has. ------- Tres bizarre!
"These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: bloody
photography" appears when I view the cached version at google. I
believe this means that somebody has carried out a "google-bombing"
campaign on your site, to associate it with that term.
Now, let's find where the links are: search on
link:georgiadis.googlepages.com
But unfortunately that only turns up your Google group post announcing
the site, so I'm confused; if your site is associated with that phrase
due to links, then this should find the links (and any other links).
So now I'm puzzled just like you.
And I really like the little girl in the checked dress with the
enthusiastic dog! Ooh, and the row of kids at the computers.
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David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/dd-b
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