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dragonlady7So I'm looking at my site logs, which I do almost daily-- I just kinda scroll through the raw log looking for stuff, which is ridiculous because I get more traffic than that. (The vast, vast majority of my traffic, by the way, remains spam-bots looking for my comments.cgi (I renamed it and they found the rename) to comment-spam my MT blog, even though Google has enacted complicated measures to ensure that comment-spam links don't increase the ranking of the linked-to sites in the slightest bit, thereby rendering the entire comment-spam industry TOTALLY futile. Additionally, I took my MT blog offline... Six months ago? Mmm, smells like futility.)
And I've been noticing a lot of people loading the main page of the mini-website of my sister's wedding photos. (Easy to spot, because there are about 40 thumbnails that load in quick succession, which takes up 40 lines of the log.) Finally I looked close enough to find the referral string.
MSN Search. What were they searching for?
"Will smith wedding", sans quotation marks.
And the search engine's stripping out "will" because it's too common a word, and isn't telling them because it's still not as good as Google, ya morons.
So people are clicking on the #1 and #2 result on MSN search for Will Smith Wedding, and are getting...
a bunch of white people standing around and decorating tables and shit and what the hell is this?
For some reason, page 3 of 5 ranks highest. See, Page 1 of 5 has an explanation right at the top: Katy and Adam Smith. Er, Not Will Smith.
I usppose I could save myself bandwidth if I properly filled out my meta tags, or put in a description at the top of the page-- as it is, there's precious little text for the search engine to provide in the snippet, and nothing that warns the browser that, uh, this ain't Will Smith's wedding. It just lists the photo titles, which doesn't tell you much.
But, see, i don't pay for bandwidth, which is why I post mp3s sometimes and so many damn photos, so I have no incentive to do that. I'll just chuckle at the poor saps loading the page and going, "Who the fuck are these people? That doesn't look like Will Smith, that looks like a bunch of white people! But oh my, what an unusually attractive bride she is. And oh, look at her sisters! Aren't they precious? This photographer is so talented!" Which they do in the .3 seconds before they close the window and stop loading the page. (Wishful thinking, much?)
But, ha ha, I outrank Will Smith in MSN Search. So there.
And yes, I am aware it is not yet 5 am, but I am awake and that is that. I do not have to be at work until 3, and this means I can finish my, ehm, literary masterpiece and post it before I go, so y'all can spend the weekend reading it to get psyched for Valentine's Day, when I'm still planning on posting the utterly unromantic Ch. 7 of the Vikings Novel. (Ha! I fooled you! You thought I was slacking off and not working on it! You were... right. But I'm still going to manage it. Gah, I was going to do it yesterday but I actually had to work at work and what a bummer that is...)
Feel free to save the Valentine's stuff for the actual day, I just thought some might appreciate the chance to read it over the weekend, in case they're busy Monday, doing constructive things like working and sending anti-valentines, both of which may be difficult to do while reading porn I mean serious literature.
OK, it's almost 5 am. I better get crackin' on my... literature.
(edit: I am shitty at closing parentheses before dawn, it seems. There is a joke or a pun or something in there waiting to happen but I've no idea.)
And I've been noticing a lot of people loading the main page of the mini-website of my sister's wedding photos. (Easy to spot, because there are about 40 thumbnails that load in quick succession, which takes up 40 lines of the log.) Finally I looked close enough to find the referral string.
MSN Search. What were they searching for?
"Will smith wedding", sans quotation marks.
And the search engine's stripping out "will" because it's too common a word, and isn't telling them because it's still not as good as Google, ya morons.
So people are clicking on the #1 and #2 result on MSN search for Will Smith Wedding, and are getting...
a bunch of white people standing around and decorating tables and shit and what the hell is this?
For some reason, page 3 of 5 ranks highest. See, Page 1 of 5 has an explanation right at the top: Katy and Adam Smith. Er, Not Will Smith.
I usppose I could save myself bandwidth if I properly filled out my meta tags, or put in a description at the top of the page-- as it is, there's precious little text for the search engine to provide in the snippet, and nothing that warns the browser that, uh, this ain't Will Smith's wedding. It just lists the photo titles, which doesn't tell you much.
But, see, i don't pay for bandwidth, which is why I post mp3s sometimes and so many damn photos, so I have no incentive to do that. I'll just chuckle at the poor saps loading the page and going, "Who the fuck are these people? That doesn't look like Will Smith, that looks like a bunch of white people! But oh my, what an unusually attractive bride she is. And oh, look at her sisters! Aren't they precious? This photographer is so talented!" Which they do in the .3 seconds before they close the window and stop loading the page. (Wishful thinking, much?)
But, ha ha, I outrank Will Smith in MSN Search. So there.
And yes, I am aware it is not yet 5 am, but I am awake and that is that. I do not have to be at work until 3, and this means I can finish my, ehm, literary masterpiece and post it before I go, so y'all can spend the weekend reading it to get psyched for Valentine's Day, when I'm still planning on posting the utterly unromantic Ch. 7 of the Vikings Novel. (Ha! I fooled you! You thought I was slacking off and not working on it! You were... right. But I'm still going to manage it. Gah, I was going to do it yesterday but I actually had to work at work and what a bummer that is...)
Feel free to save the Valentine's stuff for the actual day, I just thought some might appreciate the chance to read it over the weekend, in case they're busy Monday, doing constructive things like working and sending anti-valentines, both of which may be difficult to do while reading porn I mean serious literature.
OK, it's almost 5 am. I better get crackin' on my... literature.
(edit: I am shitty at closing parentheses before dawn, it seems. There is a joke or a pun or something in there waiting to happen but I've no idea.)
