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August 21, 2003
Search Terms
Every now and again I look through my logs to see how people find me. Erik does this monthly and posts the results, but I can't be bothered. But what I can be bothered about is spending a couple of hours trying to see where Google ranks me on some of the terms.
It is not all that surprising to see that people find my site by typing "samer" or "farha" or "www.farha.com" into a search engine. Google ranks me third for "samer" and further down for "farha". But why do people search for "www.farha.com"? I mean, can't you just put that into your navigation bar?
On a side note, typing that into Google gets you this page, where you can click on "contain the term" and see a lot of interesting things.
I readily understand why I might be the second entry for "Harry's Tap Room" (after their own website) or the number one entry for "Chez Antoine"*. But why I rank as highly as I do for terms such as "the best laid plans of mice and men" and "bruce dickinson iceland express" is a bit beyond me.
What I really really don't get is why people are searching on terms like "why metro sucks" (number 1 in Google, I should do something with that phrase). Or "souped up defender land rover". Isn't there something more productive they could be doing? Isn't there something more productive I could be doing?
*These rankings are as of today, who knows what they were yesterday or will be tomorrow. We are all at the mercy of the Googlebot.
Posted by Samer at August 21, 2003 11:13 PM
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