Comments on: WritingUp.com Growth http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html John Jonas on Living The 4-Hour Workweek Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:21:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: shmula » when bad things happen to good blogs : Business, Technology, and Stuff in Between http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html/comment-page-1#comment-14618 shmula » when bad things happen to good blogs : Business, Technology, and Stuff in Between Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:49:31 +0000 http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html#comment-14618 [...] to get new sites indexed. many people have chimed in on splogs including pirillo and mark cuban. others seem to think that splogs linking to them is a sign of growth. how are splogs created anyway? there [...] [...] to get new sites indexed. many people have chimed in on splogs including pirillo and mark cuban. others seem to think that splogs linking to them is a sign of growth. how are splogs created anyway? there [...]

]]> By: admin http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html/comment-page-1#comment-2583 admin Sun, 28 May 2006 22:20:12 +0000 http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html#comment-2583 Soon after I wrote that post I put a NOINDEX tag on most of the pages on writingup. You can see my post about it <a href="http://www.writingup.com/admin/money_and_writingup_com" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Basically, I'm trying to get all of writingup.com indexed on very targeted sub-domains, instead of all on one domain. Soon after I wrote that post I put a NOINDEX tag on most of the pages on writingup. You can see my post about it here.

Basically, I’m trying to get all of writingup.com indexed on very targeted sub-domains, instead of all on one domain.

]]> By: ProvoBoy http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html/comment-page-1#comment-2573 ProvoBoy Fri, 26 May 2006 02:00:32 +0000 http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html#comment-2573 So I just barely started reading this blog and did the site:writeup.com command on Google. Has something changed in the past few weeks? Jonas says he got over 700,000 results. I got 42,700. Still an impressive amount, but a fraction of what has been stated. So I just barely started reading this blog and did the site:writeup.com command on Google. Has something changed in the past few weeks? Jonas says he got over 700,000 results. I got 42,700. Still an impressive amount, but a fraction of what has been stated.

]]> By: Jen http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html/comment-page-1#comment-2572 Jen Thu, 25 May 2006 14:21:18 +0000 http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html#comment-2572 Not that I'm paranoid, but there's certainly something very odd going on with Google. One of the websites that I administer has disappeared from their listings entirely -- nope, they say, it doesn't exist! But it's been thoroughly indexed and decently ranked for several years now, and has many incoming links of high quality. The site itself is a happy useful inoffensive well-targeted site with relevant content that's updated regularly. The only significant change made in the same time period was that we decided to drop (most of) the Adsense ads from the site in favour of more specific affiliate programs... coincidence, do you think? Not that I’m paranoid, but there’s certainly something very odd going on with Google. One of the websites that I administer has disappeared from their listings entirely — nope, they say, it doesn’t exist!

But it’s been thoroughly indexed and decently ranked for several years now, and has many incoming links of high quality. The site itself is a happy useful inoffensive well-targeted site with relevant content that’s updated regularly.

The only significant change made in the same time period was that we decided to drop (most of) the Adsense ads from the site in favour of more specific affiliate programs… coincidence, do you think?

]]> By: admin http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html/comment-page-1#comment-2546 admin Tue, 09 May 2006 22:49:08 +0000 http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html#comment-2546 The problem with that is it doesn't exactly show back links. It just shows how many times the word writingup.com shows up on a page. If you do that first search (link: writingup.com), the first two results are rss feeds. The sixth one is on jensense.com and she's not linking to me, it's just in the text of a trackback. The problem with that is it doesn’t exactly show back links. It just shows how many times the word writingup.com shows up on a page.

If you do that first search (link: writingup.com), the first two results are rss feeds. The sixth one is on jensense.com and she’s not linking to me, it’s just in the text of a trackback.

]]> By: Dave Martin http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html/comment-page-1#comment-2545 Dave Martin Mon, 08 May 2006 20:12:21 +0000 http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html#comment-2545 In google you need a space after link: to get the most accurate number link: writingup.com - shows 114,000 BL's link: www.writingup.com - shows 109,000 BL's -D In google you need a space after link: to get the most accurate number

link: writingup.com – shows 114,000 BL’s
link: http://www.writingup.com – shows 109,000 BL’s

-D

]]> By: Vince http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html/comment-page-1#comment-2540 Vince Thu, 04 May 2006 23:15:48 +0000 http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html#comment-2540 Depends on what type of links are pointing to your site. Also, Google has never showed all inbound links using a link:mysite.com search because they don't want their secrets out about their algo's. Yahoo would be the best to use as the links are also listed in ascending order by quality. What kind of referrer stats are you receiving from the SE's? Depends on what type of links are pointing to your site. Also, Google has never showed all inbound links using a link:mysite.com search because they don’t want their secrets out about their algo’s. Yahoo would be the best to use as the links are also listed in ascending order by quality.

What kind of referrer stats are you receiving from the SE’s?

]]> By: Mike Ebert http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html/comment-page-1#comment-2538 Mike Ebert Thu, 04 May 2006 20:59:47 +0000 http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html#comment-2538 Many of the blog pages don't have comments on them yet, and so the content is repeated on the main page, but there were a good number of other pages with unique content that got delisted, too. I'm going to try a few things to see if I can't get them indexed again. Thanks for the thought, and I'll let you know if I figure out even part of what is going on. Many of the blog pages don’t have comments on them yet, and so the content is repeated on the main page, but there were a good number of other pages with unique content that got delisted, too.

I’m going to try a few things to see if I can’t get them indexed again. Thanks for the thought, and I’ll let you know if I figure out even part of what is going on.

]]> By: admin http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html/comment-page-1#comment-2536 admin Thu, 04 May 2006 18:09:36 +0000 http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html#comment-2536 I have no idea. Could it be that google is finding multiple pages with the exact same content on them? Doesn't seem likely. As far as I can tell they're doing some wacko stuff right now. I have no idea. Could it be that google is finding multiple pages with the exact same content on them? Doesn’t seem likely.

As far as I can tell they’re doing some wacko stuff right now.

]]> By: Mike Ebert http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html/comment-page-1#comment-2535 Mike Ebert Thu, 04 May 2006 17:42:51 +0000 http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/writingupcom-growth.html#comment-2535 The search engines are definitely misreporting or using old data. My site has about 130 results on MSN, 147 on Yahoo, and 3 (!) on Google. It's been up for a year, and google has reported as many as 79 pages. My pagerank is reporting kind of upside down, too--my main blog page has a PR of 2, whereas the category pages have a PR of 4 or 5. Here's a question: why would my indexed pages disappear from Google? It's not like I'm banned, or I wouldn't have any pages listed at all. The search engines are definitely misreporting or using old data.

My site has about 130 results on MSN, 147 on Yahoo, and 3 (!) on Google. It’s been up for a year, and google has reported as many as 79 pages. My pagerank is reporting kind of upside down, too–my main blog page has a PR of 2, whereas the category pages have a PR of 4 or 5.

Here’s a question: why would my indexed pages disappear from Google? It’s not like I’m banned, or I wouldn’t have any pages listed at all.

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