Google now make statistics on search queries available to web masters. The verification process is easy and fast, and once completed you can see what Googlebot is doing on your site, what the top keywords are and most interestingly where it ranks in various popular queries. Here’s the output for plan99.net:
Top search query clicks (ie what people actually went to the site to see):
1. “shared library” — average top position: 10
2. “mike hearn” — average top position: 2
3. “disadvantages of gcj compiler” — average top position: 6
4. “C++ Hacks” — average top position: 1 (lol)
I’m kind of surprised people are actually searching for the disadvantages of GCJ. Doubly surprising my blog ranks on it – whilst it’s not perfect I like GCJ a lot.
Other search terms we rank highly for but aren’t clicked on ….
“gtk windows” (why??)
“autopackage” (no surprises there)
“linux problems” (hehe)
“chat soi” (it’s matching on some symbol names in a JPEG dumper program I wrote)
“xcomposite get window pixmap” (yay, dumping knowledge tidbits into a blog post works!)
“modern day knight” (this is the title of Curtis’ blog)
“ninja stuff” (nuff said, we are at 11 on this …. more ninja stuff needed clearly)
“files” (we rank at 38 here ?!?)
“uni saarland” (go Hongli!)
“gl ext texture from pixmap” (at position 3)
Just bought Sashas “Airdrawndagger” album. I love it. It’s the best revision music you could want.
May 31, 2006 at 3:01 am |
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