Oct
28
2006

No Love From Google

Late Night Ramblings

Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 03:52:32 am
(Posted Under: Web Development)
Ahhh, I remember the days when my sites had good Google Page Ranks. Actually, y'know, it wasn't all that long ago! The whole Alphalink debarkle kinda put an end to that.

Up until August, all of my sites have had the same URI's for 8 yearz. Maybe that is an overstatement. Maybe I didn't move all my sites from RMIT to Alphalink when I first signed up. They've definately been up on Alphalink since 2000, making it 6 years, which is still pretty decent. Which I'm sure helped towards decent Google Page Rankings, and more importantly, high search result hits - without ever really trying too hard. I have done some things over the past couple of years, but just for correctness - I was already getting good placings on Google results.

However, since moving all my websites to Internode, I can't get no love from Google. Particularly for Lost Horizons, which is the only one I'm really remotely fussed about in terms of search results anyway. The Gin Blossoms Guitar Archive has kicked off in the last couple of weeks - it shows up as the top hit on Google when searching for the exact term. The Dead Hot Workshop Guitar Archive is totally unknown by Google as it seems. And I can't really get an love for the copy of my homepage hosted on Internode either.

The copy hosted on my server (purpose is only for my weblog, which I host on my own server exclusively) is a whole other story. It is more loved by Google than anything else. Of course, the URL has been around for over 2 years. But still, I notice Google returning more hits for my weblog and other pages hosted locally, than the pages on Internode - where, er, I'd like the traffic to go. I'm considering making everything but my weblog locally point to Internode, to give Google a bit of a helping hand. [smile]

In the meantime, if you have any links to my sites, or know anyone who has, please note the changes, and update your links where possible:

Mark Ord's Homepage: http://www.users.on.net/~ord/home/
Lost Horizons - A Tribute To Doug Hopkins: http://www.users.on.net/~ord/losthorizons/
Gin Blossoms Guitar Archive: http://www.users.on.net/~ord/gin_blossoms_guitar_archive/
Dead Hot Workshop Guitar Archive: http://www.users.on.net/~ord/deadhotworkshop_guitar_archive/

And for all you web spiders out there, and Google, yes, I mean you [wink] Go! Eat! Prosper and be merry!

Who knows if these will make any difference to Google, but I guess we'll soon see. But seriously, if you're a non silicon based life form, updating any links would be good.

Speaking of which, I looked around a bit for places with links, and came across the one for the Gin Blossoms Guitar Archive in the Rock Out Censorship Database. I was solicited by them years ago ('96 or '97) for recipricating links, long before search engine optimizing was a buzz phrase. Which, is probably the only reason I even considered the request. Well, that and their cause was a cool one. Heading on over to the site, it was kinda shocking to me that the address in there, is the original one, for minyos - the site has been moved 3 times since then! [smile] Kinda a trip out seeing the old minyos address still on the web, and my old student number! [smile] Rock Out Censoorship is old school. [smile] If that isn't clearly obvious by the background image on their site, which immediately takes me back to '96. [smile] In anycase, I attempted to update the link, but the service choked. [smile] There you go!

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