Posted in DIY, Experiments, SEM on Dec 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
The Reverse Ego Search
Ever curious to know if someone is searching your name on Google ?
The habit of searching people on the net has become very popular. If you are going to meet someone (blind date, job interview, …) one of the first thing to do is search their name on Google to get […]
Posted in Analytics, Experiments, Reviews, SEM, SEO, Tools on Nov 5th, 2007 No Comments »
A friend has recently brought to my attention this free tool: checktraffic.cgi by seotoolset.com.
This script measures the search volume for a specified keyword per day for each of the 3 major engines: Google, Yahoo, Live. The measurement is in “exact” numbers. Here’s what it gives for the keyword: “testing”:
How does it do that ?
There are […]
Posted in Experiments, SEO on Sep 17th, 2007 No Comments »
With all the noise and buzz generated around the PageRank ranking system one would easily think that it’s the single most important factor in determining a page’s rank in a search response page. In fact, I thought that for a given search, Google returns a list of URLs that are relevant to that serach […]
Posted in Experiments on Sep 16th, 2007 No Comments »
It sometimes feelss like you utter aa word in one place of the web and almost instantly it gets echoed and duplicated across the web to many different places.
I posted a video clip on metacafe and rather quickly it got dispersed all over the web to video sites I never heard of before. Same […]
Posted in Experiments on Sep 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
Here are some conclusions from the mini-experiment I started two days ago.
Quick reminder:
I came uyp with a nonexistent word, that none of the search engines had anything on it, and posted it in several blog entries around the blogsphere. The posts were placed here, here, there and on this blog here. The […]
Posted in Experiments on Sep 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
Kremshnitzel is a word that doesn’t exist. If you google it you won’t find it anywhere.
Proof:
I posted this unique word in several blog posts around the blogspehere (blogger.com, wordpress.com, tumblr.com, etc.) and the plan is to see how fast the search engines and technorati will get it.
The Race is on.