Posts tagged “search engine optimization”

Notes and observations related to optimizing content for search engines

Freaky

Okay. So it’s not freaky enough to submit it to Disturbing Search Requests, but I certainly can’t imagine why a) someone would be looking for “free superfrog download” or 2) why Yahoo! would think to send that person here to find it …

Nintendo and CrackerJap

Nintendo still apparently believed that “Pokemon” in Crackerjap’s meta tag was so harmful to its business that it had to threaten legal action. Why? Because for some reason, Nintendo thought that Crackerjap.com was a porn site.

Hemingway Search

Hemingway Search

Every single week I am flabbergasted by the number of people who go to my entire web site dedicated to Ernest Hemingway and do a search for hemingway. Good grief, people! It’s a Hemingway web site! Every damn page mentions his name 50 times! The only thing that is worse is when people search for

The META Tag Generator

The META Tag Generator (that I found from a link from a link from dink) is, for whatever it’s worth, the DavidGagne.Net cool tool of the day …

Search Engine Statistics

Search Engine Statistics

I posted the search engine statistics for my Hemingway page. It drives me nuts when people double the letter m in the middle of his name. Something I can’t understand is why people search on the word “Hemingway” on what is very clearly an Ernest Hemingway web site. The search must return every single page

Hemingway

Hemingway

You may know, if you’ve ever let your eyes wander all the way to the upper left-hand corner of this page, that I run a pretty nifty Hemingway site. The site gets something like 800 hits daily. I’m sure a bunch of those are spiders and search thingies and who-knows-what else. But I know that

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.