Search Rankings
Originally published at Wifigod.net. You can comment here or there.
As this site is barely over a week old, I decided to get a preliminary “taste” of what the search engines think about my site’s rank with the keyword: wifigod. The 4 search engines I decided to use were: Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, and Altavista.
Results:
- Google: 7th place. (Not bad, but not the best.)
- Yahoo!: 1st place. (Yahoo! may just become my fav search engine again!)
- MSN Live: N/A (What a JOKE this search engine is! Not only was I not in the top 10, but I wasn’t even in the search results! Which is also interesting seems how there were only 23 results. Google had over 900 results, Yahoo! 300.)
- Altavista: 3rd place. (Too bad nobody uses Altavista anymore!)
Extended Results:
Google: Out of the top 10 results: 1,2,5,6,7,8,9 were profiles or sites of mine. 3 and 4 were comments/forum posts I had made, and 10 was a page quoting my blog.
Yahoo!: Out of the top 10 results: 1,2,3,4,6,9,10 were profiles of sites of mine. 5 and 7 were comments/forum posts I had made, and number 8 was something that didn’t relate to me at all.
MSN Live: Out of the top 10 results: 4 was a profile of mine. 1,2,8, and 10 were comments/forum posts of mine. 3 and 6 were not me and 5, 7, and 9 were sites quoting pages of mine or linking to pages of mine. (Horrible)
Altavista: Out of the top 10 results: 1,2,3,5,6, and 10 were profiles or sites of mine. 7 and 8 were comments/forum posts, 9 was not me, and 4 was a site linking to mine.
These results were interesting, not quite what I had expected. Thank God Yahoo! is the number one site on the net, because that’s the number one site linking to me.
Google in a distant 3rd…..come on Google, update your indexes! This little exercise sealed my loathing for Microsoft Live search, beta or not, it’s a piece of garbage. Anywho, hope I didn’t bore you too much with all those stats!