Philippine History
Saturday, November 19th, 2005Yahoo! reports that searches on Philippine history are up a whopping 509% over the week. All other regional history searches have decreased. Does anybody know why?
Posts Tagged ‘search’
Clusty (goes for) the Crown
Thursday, September 30th, 2004Yet another new search engine. Check out Clusty, the Clustering Engine.
Blog-blog Cerrado
Saturday, September 13th, 2003Stumbled upon a couple of Filipino-American blogs worth checking out. There’s Robert Garcia Tagorda’s Boomshock, a blog about politics and baseball. Then there’s The Dubious Biologist, a Salon-hosted blog by BJ De La Cruz, who happens to be, you guessed it, a biologist. He’s also a Macintosh fanatic.
I discovered BJ’s blog quite by accident. Around June and July of this year, I saw a spike in hits from searches on “Filipino Biologist/Physicist.” I never blogged about any such person but my June 2003 archive page does contain the words “Filipino”, “Biologist” and “Physicist.” Out of curiosity, I checked the search engine results and I find a link to one of BJ’s entries where he urges the “person who is still doing the “filipino biologist” search on Google and Yahoo” to stop already. Heh-heh, I could just imagine how much traffic this guy was getting.
Since all search queries originated from the Philippines, and June was the beginning of the schoolyear, I suspect some college professor was giving out assignments to research Filipino biologists or physicists. Or maybe there was some sort of breakthrough in the Philippine scientific field like this discovery of a new parasitic fungus by a Pinay biologist. Who knows?
Update: BJ de la Cruz moved his site here.
Search Engine Ranking
Sunday, February 9th, 2003Checking my web log file, I noticed that most of my traffic come from search engine queries. This in itself is not surprising. The fact that I get top ranking in some of these queries is. Using the following keywords gets my site top ranking in Google:
letterheads portfolio
invites flyers
top 5 ranking:
print portfolio page layout
letterhead & logos
portfolio print ads
portfolio flyers
portfolio letterheads
logos for letterheads
anniversary flyers
top 10 ranking: letterheads and logos, brochure portfolio, newspaper print ads, long distance banners, direct mail piece.
Now here’s the rub: I haven’t done anything special to my site. I have adequately formulated meta tag information, but that’s about it. Could it be that my portfolio site is so hopelessly stale that search engine bots just looove indexing my site?