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December 04, 2005
huh?
What causes a site to come up frequently on web searches? My first blog has had over 17,400 hits. It gets an average of 10 hits a day. That would not be so interesting if I was still blogging on that site. But I haven't written there since December 2004. Clearly, I should move my thoughts on the foreign service to an active blog, since that seems to be getting the most traffic. But other than that, I can't figure out why that site gets so much damn traffic. And how can I move that traffic over here or there?
Compare my dead blog's 17K hits with this blog's anemic almost 2K hits and my other blog's 3200 hits. Wackiness abounds in the blogosphere. As my online personal headline states, pick me! pick me!
Posted by cj at December 4, 2005 12:20 PM
Comments
Time and links basically. Your old blog had been going for much longer so there was much more text to be found by search engines. Secondly, your old blog was a member of the Blog Alliance or some such which seems to have a large number of members all linking to each other.
A combination of these factors plus being on a blogspot domain gave the site a Google PR of 5/10 compared to 4/10 for this site.
Posted by: theaardvark at December 6, 2005 03:56 AM
I googled my last name (minster) and decided you're the only thing minster thats not boring.
Posted by: maria minster at February 7, 2006 08:12 AM