Symi Dream rankings – odd
I noticed something strange yesterday. A friend of mine had been talking about Google rankings and getting your website noticed and all that kind of stuff that I don’t understand. Apparently, there are so many blogs and sites now that things like Google are getting upset…
You have probably noticed the number of pages out there which seem to be given over to adverts only, with perhaps one line of readable text that’s on topic somewhere in the middle of it all. Well, it’s this kind of thing that have made the big search engines start to look again at how they rank sites on their pages. Apparently, these days it’s best to have over 1,000 words per post, you will rank more highly. And you need to put the title of your post as the Alt text to your photos, or something; use your keywords in the right way, adhere to a set of rules laid down by… I have no idea who, or else you start to fall off the rankings – that is off the first page of Google where no one ever looks.
Well, there’s no way I am going to write over 1,000 words every day on my personal blog, so we’ll just have to fall off page one, which isn’t a problem; most people searching for Symi will find this page and it’s only here to let you, dear reader, know what we’re up to and you’re reading this already so, job done. But I did go and have a look at our stats and see how many visitors we were getting. Was it less than the average 700 per day we have been having over the past however many years? Well, as it turned you there was a surprise. The average is around 700, which is good, but for a week this month, when I was posting about Rhodes and after, we had over 2,000 each day.
I suspect some kind of Google-bot-robot thing, but it doesn’t look like it. A sudden interest was clearly sparked and I have no idea why. What I need to do now is check to see if that spike in visitors to the blog led to any more sales in books, as that’s another reason for this blog. I’ll take a look later. But it’s strange and I have no idea if these sudden new visitors are real or virtual. But, if you’ve fallen here and decided to pop back almost daily to read my ramblings, then welcome… all 1,300 extra of you and I hope you discover Symi through reading us. Oh, and enjoy the pictures; today’s lot were taken yesterday as we headed down town for a walkabout, shopping, post and a beer.
