« Making Changes | Main | Tackling the Spreadsheet Challenge »
So Strange ...
October 10, 2006
I'm feeling a little like I'm in the Twilight Zone. Strange things have been happening here at Adventures in Net Marketing.
First, my little PR toolbar indicator on my browser absolutely refuses to pull up a PR for this site. It's not like it's not working, though, because it happily gives me the toolbar PR for all my other sites, plus everyone else's sites.
I've checked the various datacentres and yes, according to them, I have PR. And apparently other people can see this PR, too.
That's okay. I can deal with that one.
Second, though - Google seems to be spidering my pages in a very strange way. I'm getting pages spidered and then dropped out of Google's cache. There's no problem with any of my posts made prior to October, most of which are even freshly cached with an October date, but nothing that I've posted so far in October is sticking in the index.
I keep checking the cache for my home page and nada.
Even stranger - my October posts have actually shown up in the SERPs momentarily. Like, for about two hours.
(Big thanks go to Ryan for alerting me to this.)
Third, and this one's the strangest one: because I've been trying to figure out what's going on around here, I've been checking my stats (I don't tend to check my stats for this blog very much normally) and I have had this huge jump in unique visitors today - and I have NO idea where they all came from.
Everything in my stats indicates that the big jump in visitors isn't coming from the search engines and isn't coming from some nice and considerate and very discerning person linking to me. Everything indicates these are all type-ins or bookmarks or feed readers.
BUT
I know some of you come by regularly but there's no way there are that many of you. I mean, you'd think I'd know if there were, right? And anyway, my stats show returning visitors, and the majority of these unique hits weren't returning visitors.
I'm going to have to sleep on this one. It's feeling a bit woowoo around here.
Maybe I've had too much turkey and mashed potatoes.
Bookmark this: BlinkList | del.icio.us | Digg it | Furl | reddit | Yahoo MyWeb
Posted by BJ at 01:33 AM in Web Publisher's Life | Permalink
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/69656/6367675
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference So Strange ...:
Comments
Our pages are back! Mine's No. 2 if you type "affiliate project x" (with quotes). Your APX review shows up for "affiliate project x" (with and without quotes) and "affiliate project x review."
Hopefully they'll stay this time.
Posted by: Ryan Cole | Oct 11, 2006 3:32:10 PM
Thanks, Ryan. Things seem to be settling down. That huge bunch of unique visitors hasn't yet repeated itself, alas ...!
Posted by: BJ | Oct 11, 2006 6:51:12 PM
Ooops - nope. I've slipped out of the index again. But Ryan, you're coming in at the top again.
It's definitely woo woo time here again!
Posted by: BJ | Oct 11, 2006 7:16:16 PM
It's weird, I've been falling on and off for different similar terms all day. The page seems to be cached now, but one search will have me ranking No. 1 without quotes, and the next will have me on page 7 or somewhere.
I've seen your page come up a few times when I add "review" to the search, but I can't figure out why I'd be ranking better than you for any term. My site's only a couple months old and I thought it was sandboxed.
Posted by: Ryan Cole | Oct 11, 2006 8:39:25 PM
There's definitely big shifts going on somewhere. But my pages don't seem to want to stay in the cache, and that's the problem, I think.
On the other hand, I've had a big increase in Google visitors today.
I'm starting to get that "shrug ... who knows ... shrug ... I'm letting it all go ... ah ... no resistance" feeling coming on.
I'm not seeing this flux in any of my other sites, though. Still, PPC's starting to look very appealing :)
Posted by: BJ | Oct 11, 2006 8:55:53 PM
PPC is the way to go, I think, for fast results. You have to know what you're doing, of course, but it's really very easy. If you know about optimizing web sites, you already know how to use AdWords. Check out the free book you can get from www.googleadwordsmadeeasy.com.
Posted by: Ryan Cole | Oct 12, 2006 12:32:25 AM
