{"id":824,"date":"2008-06-16T23:12:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T23:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/search_engine_f.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:30","slug":"search_engine_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/search_engine_f.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I get my report from Google Analytics and it shows a huge spike in traffic, 116% increase in page views.  Naturally, I dug deeper to see what was up.  The spike was nearly all on June 9th, which I still don&#8217;t understand exactly.<br \/>\nTurns out the traffic was all going to one page, my post from December of &#8217;04 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/archive\/000201.shtml\">Jay Leno&#8217;s Toronado<\/a>.  That post has always gotten a lot of hits, at one time it was the top result on Google for &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Jay+Leno%27s+Toronado\">Jay Leno&#8217;s Toronado<\/a>&#8216;, even higher than Jay&#8217;s own site.  Not any more, however, but still the page views to that post were up <em>3,375%<\/em>.<br \/>\nGoogle analytics told me that it was a result form search engine hits on &#8216;Jay Leno&#8217;.  Odd, certainly there were far more relevant posts on Jay than my little post on one of hit lesser known cars.  I tried Google, A9, Ask.com and Yahoo! and salguod.net was nowhere on the first page of any of them.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/images\/mslive_jayleno_salguod_net_image_1.jpg?resize=400%2C511\" width=\"400\" height=\"511\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nThen I tried MS Live.  Lo and behold, there&#8217;s the picture of Jay&#8217;s Toronado from my post as picture #1 in the search of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/search.live.com\/results.aspx?q=jay+leno\">Jay Leno<\/a>&#8216;.  Why would that pic rank as #1 for all pictures for &#8216;Jay Leno&#8217;?  Weird.<br \/>\nMakes me wish I had a Google AdSense account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I get my report from Google Analytics and it shows a huge spike in traffic, 116% increase in page views. 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