potentialgeek
11-23-2005, 11:25 AM
This is maddening, like Murphy's Law. Ugh.
I discovered yesterday, using Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/), that I am #2 in Google for a single word. #2!
I should have known this before, what the top searches were, but my previous webhost didn't give web stats, and I wasn't taking the site seriously enough to install or buy stats elsewhere.
If I had tried to do this on purpose, it probably wouldn't have happened. I thought it was an error at first. But I had noticed I was providing serious competition for major corporations on some searches, so it's not entirely surprising.
But that is for the singular of the word, not the plural. For the plural I am nowhere to be found in Google, certainly not the first three pages (I stopped looking after that).
And, as luck would have it, it's the plural which is the commercial word, for all intents and purposes, the word people type in most often. Over 65,000 searches last month, for example, at Overture.com (http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/).
So I must be losing a ton of cash just because Google for some reason differentiates between singular and plural for this one word. So close and yet so far.
Meanwhile, I'm going to convert the new metrics info into cash, picking up derivative keywords (leading search phrases). Overture is kind enough to provide the info free. Because the way Google works for two words and more is to look for all sites with the first word, then all sites with the second word (think: layering).
Since I'm so strongly weighted on the first word, #2 in Google on a PR5 site (which acts like a PR6 or PR7), it's going to pull the second words like a strong magnet. (Already saw this work a few times.)
Fortunately there are at least 65,000 searches a month for derivative phrases (primary keyword + secondary keyword).
The site started as a hobby site; now Adsense is my new hobby. Beats Monopoly! :D
Adsense can turn your world upside down. It can change your hobby into your full-time work and "full-time work" into a hobby. :cool:
p/g
I discovered yesterday, using Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/), that I am #2 in Google for a single word. #2!
I should have known this before, what the top searches were, but my previous webhost didn't give web stats, and I wasn't taking the site seriously enough to install or buy stats elsewhere.
If I had tried to do this on purpose, it probably wouldn't have happened. I thought it was an error at first. But I had noticed I was providing serious competition for major corporations on some searches, so it's not entirely surprising.
But that is for the singular of the word, not the plural. For the plural I am nowhere to be found in Google, certainly not the first three pages (I stopped looking after that).
And, as luck would have it, it's the plural which is the commercial word, for all intents and purposes, the word people type in most often. Over 65,000 searches last month, for example, at Overture.com (http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/).
So I must be losing a ton of cash just because Google for some reason differentiates between singular and plural for this one word. So close and yet so far.
Meanwhile, I'm going to convert the new metrics info into cash, picking up derivative keywords (leading search phrases). Overture is kind enough to provide the info free. Because the way Google works for two words and more is to look for all sites with the first word, then all sites with the second word (think: layering).
Since I'm so strongly weighted on the first word, #2 in Google on a PR5 site (which acts like a PR6 or PR7), it's going to pull the second words like a strong magnet. (Already saw this work a few times.)
Fortunately there are at least 65,000 searches a month for derivative phrases (primary keyword + secondary keyword).
The site started as a hobby site; now Adsense is my new hobby. Beats Monopoly! :D
Adsense can turn your world upside down. It can change your hobby into your full-time work and "full-time work" into a hobby. :cool:
p/g