Comments on: How To Grab Google’s Attention http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/ rock out to the apparatus Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:01:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Lab Lemming http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3165 Lab Lemming Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:54:47 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3165 They aren't mine in the sense that I went around to the local shopkeepers, asked for their logos, and put them up for a fee, like back in the student newspaper days. But I have an adsense account that claims to owe me twelve cents. I was hoping that the bot would be smart enough so that if I bitched about some hard-to-import chemical in my blog, it would find me the ad for a supplier. But it doesn't seem to have worked that way yet. Maybe it's time for the tantalum oxalate post. BTW, have you read the snide remark on www.adsense.com? Way funny. They aren’t mine in the sense that I went around to the local shopkeepers, asked for their logos, and put them up for a fee, like back in the student newspaper days. But I have an adsense account that claims to owe me twelve cents. I was hoping that the bot would be smart enough so that if I bitched about some hard-to-import chemical in my blog, it would find me the ad for a supplier. But it doesn’t seem to have worked that way yet. Maybe it’s time for the tantalum oxalate post.

BTW, have you read the snide remark on www.adsense.com? Way funny.

]]> By: yami http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3162 yami Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:22:33 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3162 You get a choice when you set up your AdSense unit, but mine are all PSAs. And, heh - thanks to Adblock I didn't realize you even had ads. Are they yours, or Blogger's? Sometimes it seems like the bot needs some time to find appropriate ads - it'll run PSAs for a bit, and run real ads after a couple days. You get a choice when you set up your AdSense unit, but mine are all PSAs. And, heh - thanks to Adblock I didn’t realize you even had ads. Are they yours, or Blogger’s?

Sometimes it seems like the bot needs some time to find appropriate ads - it’ll run PSAs for a bit, and run real ads after a couple days.

]]> By: Lab Lemming http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3153 Lab Lemming Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:10:02 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3153 What happens if the googlebot thinks a page is too risque? Does it blank out the ads or just run pub service ads? I ask because, after finally writing something that more that 40 people want to read, I find that people pursuing postulation about Pluto only see ads for the red cross. Maybe Google is cryophobic. . . What happens if the googlebot thinks a page is too risque? Does it blank out the ads or just run pub service ads?

I ask because, after finally writing something that more that 40 people want to read, I find that people pursuing postulation about Pluto only see ads for the red cross.

Maybe Google is cryophobic. . .

]]> By: yami http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3140 yami Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:11:48 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3140 Yeah, it's only fun when they respond - "no, I was just really bored, really!" Alternatively, I've started showing these people extra ads. They click through more often than normal visitors, and I don't care if they're annoyed by the commercialization. Yeah, it’s only fun when they respond - “no, I was just really bored, really!”

Alternatively, I’ve started showing these people extra ads. They click through more often than normal visitors, and I don’t care if they’re annoyed by the commercialization.

]]> By: Eli http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3131 Eli Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:20:50 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3131 After posting an innocuous goofy story, I started to get dozens of search hits every month for "she had to pee". What really bothered me was that according to the server logs, those folks never stayed to check out the rest of the site - and some of them seemed to be the same people, day after day, never learning. So I stuck a script on that page that would detect those kinds of Google referrers and put up a message like <i>"What the hell is your problem? Can't you tell from the summary that this is not what you're looking for?"</i>. And, because I was still obsessively reading the server logs, I know that a few strangers did get that pissy message... somehow not nearly as satisfying as I imagined. After posting an innocuous goofy story, I started to get dozens of search hits every month for “she had to pee”. What really bothered me was that according to the server logs, those folks never stayed to check out the rest of the site - and some of them seemed to be the same people, day after day, never learning. So I stuck a script on that page that would detect those kinds of Google referrers and put up a message like “What the hell is your problem? Can’t you tell from the summary that this is not what you’re looking for?”. And, because I was still obsessively reading the server logs, I know that a few strangers did get that pissy message… somehow not nearly as satisfying as I imagined.

]]> By: Mel http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3128 Mel Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:58:54 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3128 I shall never understand google searches. I shall never understand google searches.

]]> By: gengar http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3098 gengar Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:32:00 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3098 Other than a recent surge of searches for variations on 'scantily clad women' (which must be disappointing for the poor dears), most of the people who find me through google seem to be making vaguely relevent geology-related searches. I do get a background of pokemon-fetishists searching for 'gengar' though... Other than a recent surge of searches for variations on ’scantily clad women’ (which must be disappointing for the poor dears), most of the people who find me through google seem to be making vaguely relevent geology-related searches. I do get a background of pokemon-fetishists searching for ‘gengar’ though…

]]> By: Andrew Ironwood http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3092 Andrew Ironwood Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:05:28 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3092 I too once suffered from site log addiction, but through hard work and perserverance I managed to overcome it (thus the lack of any stats package on my current site). That said, the 'cryptic spy underwear' thing sounds to me like a video game reference, but after a couple of cursory search attempts, I couldn't place it any better meself either... I too once suffered from site log addiction, but through hard work and perserverance I managed to overcome it (thus the lack of any stats package on my current site).

That said, the ‘cryptic spy underwear’ thing sounds to me like a video game reference, but after a couple of cursory search attempts, I couldn’t place it any better meself either…

]]> By: Lab Lemming http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3082 Lab Lemming Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:23:52 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3082 Sorry, but the only searches I've had with n>1 are: A. variations on lithium, contamination, cleaning, and ICP-MS B. "cold nipples" (several). Somehow, I doubt the nipple searchers were looking for a way to remember the order of the group VIIIa elements (Fe, Co, Ni; Feel Cold Nipples). Perhaps if I understtod what you meant by this: I’ve taken a few basic steps to optimize my site for search engines, like putting the entry title in header tags and using it as the page title in individual archives I might be more suited for having some sort of clue about how blogging actually works. As it is, most of my visitors from other parts of the web come via either you, Dr. Shellie, or a secretive cabal of expat American housewives in Europe who have adopted my chocolate chip cookie recipe. Sorry, but the only searches I’ve had with n>1 are:

A. variations on lithium, contamination, cleaning, and ICP-MS

B. “cold nipples” (several). Somehow, I doubt the nipple searchers were looking for a way to remember the order of the group VIIIa elements (Fe, Co, Ni; Feel Cold Nipples).

Perhaps if I understtod what you meant by this:

I’ve taken a few basic steps to optimize my site for search engines, like putting the entry title in header tags and using it as the page title in individual archives
I might be more suited for having some sort of clue about how blogging actually works.

As it is, most of my visitors from other parts of the web come via either you, Dr. Shellie, or a secretive cabal of expat American housewives in Europe who have adopted my chocolate chip cookie recipe.

]]> By: sciencewoman http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3081 sciencewoman Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:05:07 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2006/08/12/how-to-grab-googles-attention/#comment-3081 I only look occasionally and only keep track in my head, but in an informal way, I've discovered that my most popular post is from the "proper name for a woman" series, followed by the polar bears and penguins rant at Coke. I guess I just don't write about as provacative a topics as you do. I only look occasionally and only keep track in my head, but in an informal way, I’ve discovered that my most popular post is from the “proper name for a woman” series, followed by the polar bears and penguins rant at Coke. I guess I just don’t write about as provacative a topics as you do.

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