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.

A simple search for “blarg” does not bring my website up on some search engines, so I’ve set out to change that. I just added the word blarg to my “description” meta tag to improve my rankings, and several search engines rank my OLD site higher than the current, so I will set the old one up to forward people and see what that does.

Below are the current rankings on several popular search engines. After a couple weeks we can look back and see if they have changed! For a true ranking the search engine must list either www.theblarg.com OR nathan118.blogspot.com.The starred** listings point to the original www.theburn.com/nathan118.

Google: #16 (www.theblarg.com)
Yahoo: #130 (nathan118.blogspot.com) and #24**
Altavista: #115 (nathan118.blogspot.com) and #20**
Lycos: #14

Both Yahoo and Altavista confound me. They list my super old website and even things like my gallery address before my actual website. Ok, changes are made, now to wait.

…I am an expert on a few subjects. My site counter can also tell me where people were “referred” from, or what website they were at that led them to mine. Often times I see searches people have made, usually on yahoo.com. Frequent searches that lead people to my site are for “starburst commercial” and “cutting dog nails.” Yahoo is great and will find specific posts, but google is retarded and doesn’t do that.

The picture on the left is from Drudge’s website, and the picture on the right is from this Yahoo News page. It’s really hard figuring out the timeline of when the pictures were taken, but it’s quite amusing.