Every now and then I like to examine my rankings on various search engines. I search for the word "blarg" and will only accept a link to my main page at http://www.theblarg.com.

                      Current     Old         Older
Google:             #9         #904       #16  
Yahoo:             #6           #40        #130
MSN:               #21*        #10           -
Ask Jeeves:       #9           #9            -
Altavista:          #6          #40        #115
Lycos:              #9           #8          #14
Dogpile:            #3            -              -

Couple interesting developments. MSN lists me at #21, but it’s not a link to the main page. I’m now listed in the top 10 on every other search engine on my list, a definite bonus to leaving blogspot. A new search engine I’ve included is Dogpile, mainly because they list me at #3. I’ve also decided that for the most part a high ranking for the search "blarg" is fairly pointless, but fun to track. I guess that is the statistician in me.

PS – And if anyone knows how to do tabs or columns, that would be nice.

Back in June I posted my current search engine rankings. I thought it was time to take a look and see how some minor changes have affected my rankings. The only valid results I will accept are www.theblarg.com or nathan118.blogspot.com. Old results in ( ).

Google: #904 (#16)
Yahoo: #40 (#130)
MSN: #10 (-)
Ask Jeeves: #9 (-)
Altavista: #40 (#115)
Lycos: #8 (#14)

Google has some issues. They list my OLD burn address at #26, which doesn’t even lead to a valid webpage anymore, but they don’t list my current one at all. I added msn and ask jeeves, which I think are more popular than altavista and lycos. I have three top 10 ranks, so that’s pretty cool.

Last dumb thing…google doesn’t index any of the individual pages on my site. That means I get absolutely zero click throughs from google. I’ve done some reading and it sounds like google is completely botching blogger sites, so who knows what is up. I’ll check back in a couple months and see where the rankings are then!

Update: Google also does something called Page Ranking, which is a number from 1 – 10. The higher the number, the higher “rank” your page is. I’m at 3 right now with a cool graphic at the right. Turns out google does list my site…at #904 according to Google Rankings.