Comments on: Search Engines… http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/07/04/search-engines/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=search-engines Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)... Fri, 24 May 2013 21:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tim... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/07/04/search-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-24578 Tim... Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:27:31 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/07/04/search-engines/#comment-24578 None of the other search engines even register. The other traffic is made up of a few forums, that my stats considers search engines and unknown sources.

Cheers

Tim…

]]> By: Andy C http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/07/04/search-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-24519 Andy C Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:07:55 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/07/04/search-engines/#comment-24519 If Google is 80% and Yahoo! just 0.6%, which other well known search engines send you the remaining 20% ?

]]> By: Andy C http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/07/04/search-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-24517 Andy C Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:45:27 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/07/04/search-engines/#comment-24517 Yes. The only ‘SEO’ optimization I applied to stock WordPress was the ‘OptimalTitle’ plug-in which simply transposes the blog name and article title (which now comes first).

As for StumbleUpon, I got massive traffic spike last November from a Stumble. I was genuinely surprised at how many people use it.

]]> By: Jeremy Schneider http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/07/04/search-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-24502 Jeremy Schneider Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:16:46 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/07/04/search-engines/#comment-24502 The same thing is true of my website (ArdentPerf). In fact I never submitted it to any search engines – yet somehow google found it almost right away and started indexing. And it keeps surprising me how high google ranks many blog posts in general – not just mine – compared to other engines. If I were to guess I’d say it’s related to (1) using good blog engines like WordPress which are standards-compliant and structure the document pages well (e.g. separating all layout into stylesheets) and (2) being linked from other sites with solid technical content. I feel like there’s still a decent gap between google’s search algorithms and anyone else’s… and when I’m looking for Oracle-related technical content I still seem to consistently get better results from google.

And then there’s the random fact that someone added one of my pages to stumbleupon… and I still get a rather large number of hits each month from there… weird. :)

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