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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Ephemera
One of Life's Little Ironies:
From Amazon.com: How to Become Wealthy Selling Ebooks on the Internet by Stacey, Chillemi (Paperback - Jan 29, 2007) and Ebook Secrets Exposed: How to Make Massive Amounts of Money in Record Time with Your Own Ebook by Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel (Hardcover) - April 1, 2006)
Google Tricks:
1) Google Alerts
Set up an alert on your pen name or book title and Google will email you when ever it appears on the internet. This is a great way to get fresh reviews and find out who is blogging about you. But rememeber to use quote marks (e.g. "emily veinglory") to avoid learning about every person that happens to have that first name.
2) Google Links
If you bring up google and in the box type link:wwwyourwebsite.com it will show all the pages that link to yours.
[NEWS]
Triskelion recently moved from .net to .com, buit the site is now down--anyone know why? [Edited to Add] It's back! Chippewa/Lady Aibell have had trouble with hackers affecting the shopping cart and secure forum but have moved to quickly correct the problem.
Kurt Vonnegut has died at the age of 84
From Amazon.com: How to Become Wealthy Selling Ebooks on the Internet by Stacey, Chillemi (Paperback - Jan 29, 2007) and Ebook Secrets Exposed: How to Make Massive Amounts of Money in Record Time with Your Own Ebook by Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel (Hardcover) - April 1, 2006)
Google Tricks:
1) Google Alerts
Set up an alert on your pen name or book title and Google will email you when ever it appears on the internet. This is a great way to get fresh reviews and find out who is blogging about you. But rememeber to use quote marks (e.g. "emily veinglory") to avoid learning about every person that happens to have that first name.
2) Google Links
If you bring up google and in the box type link:wwwyourwebsite.com it will show all the pages that link to yours.
[NEWS]
Triskelion recently moved from .net to .com, buit the site is now down--anyone know why? [Edited to Add] It's back! Chippewa/Lady Aibell have had trouble with hackers affecting the shopping cart and secure forum but have moved to quickly correct the problem.
Kurt Vonnegut has died at the age of 84
Labels: Google
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
The top google item for: erotic+romance+blog is currently this:
veinglory.com/
This site has moved to http://www.erecsite.com/blog.html.[<--this is the content of the page]
www.veinglory.com/pblog.html[<--this is the address of the page]
- 2k - Cached - Similar pages
The top google-ranked page for these search terms is my redirect page from the obsolete url to this ERECsite url. And as the days pass the obsolete and almost empty page's google rank is getting better while this one languishes.
How does that make any sense?
Why won't google list the new blog? Why does it hate me?
[whimper] ¶ posted at 3:24 PM by Emily Veinglory 5 Comments
veinglory.com/
This site has moved to http://www.erecsite.com/blog.html.[<--this is the content of the page]
www.veinglory.com/pblog.html[<--this is the address of the page]
- 2k - Cached - Similar pages
The top google-ranked page for these search terms is my redirect page from the obsolete url to this ERECsite url. And as the days pass the obsolete and almost empty page's google rank is getting better while this one languishes.How does that make any sense?
Why won't google list the new blog? Why does it hate me?
[whimper] ¶ posted at 3:24 PM by Emily Veinglory 5 Comments
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Google Analytics--Google Fu
Those of you who have websites may already know the dubious joys of sifting through visitor statistics. I used to be a big fan of Statcounter for this but now must admit to having become a good Google-borg and using Google Analytics. If anyone knows a good plain English guide to this heaping pile of data please let me know.
A lot of it is less than totally surprising. I mean people who come to this site via a search engine tend to be looking for 1) erotic/a 2) romance/romantic 3) stories and 4) e-books. (It must also be noted that there are people out there looking for some of you guys, especially--Anne Douglas and Amanda Young).
A lot of visitors stay less than ten seconds (this is not the blog you seek) but another big group are in the 3-6 minutes range and they tend to spend it reading the blog although the publisher list is also popular.
One thing that vexes me is that the obsolete blog has a great google rank on the top keywords despite now being nothing but a redirect page. Yet this blog (yes, this one here) is still listed somewhere on page eleventy-million--despite having the same content and more, and all the current activity. Does anyone with a greater mastery of Google Fu know why? No doubt (as the disembodied voice of my mother is saying) I just need to learn to be more patient.
Edited to add: Other stat gathering methods -- icerocket, sitemeter.
p.s. Pet Meme entries: cat (2), dog (1), other (0). I will be posting more of these soon but I am trying to avoid having the cats totally take over the blog :) (You know who you are)
Coming tomorrow: Pet Meme--"Meow Bloggers", by Anne Douglas.
Those of you who have websites may already know the dubious joys of sifting through visitor statistics. I used to be a big fan of Statcounter for this but now must admit to having become a good Google-borg and using Google Analytics. If anyone knows a good plain English guide to this heaping pile of data please let me know.A lot of it is less than totally surprising. I mean people who come to this site via a search engine tend to be looking for 1) erotic/a 2) romance/romantic 3) stories and 4) e-books. (It must also be noted that there are people out there looking for some of you guys, especially--Anne Douglas and Amanda Young).
A lot of visitors stay less than ten seconds (this is not the blog you seek) but another big group are in the 3-6 minutes range and they tend to spend it reading the blog although the publisher list is also popular.
One thing that vexes me is that the obsolete blog has a great google rank on the top keywords despite now being nothing but a redirect page. Yet this blog (yes, this one here) is still listed somewhere on page eleventy-million--despite having the same content and more, and all the current activity. Does anyone with a greater mastery of Google Fu know why? No doubt (as the disembodied voice of my mother is saying) I just need to learn to be more patient.
Edited to add: Other stat gathering methods -- icerocket, sitemeter.
p.s. Pet Meme entries: cat (2), dog (1), other (0). I will be posting more of these soon but I am trying to avoid having the cats totally take over the blog :) (You know who you are)Coming tomorrow: Pet Meme--"Meow Bloggers", by Anne Douglas.
Labels: blogging, Google, pet meme, statcounter, web
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