Goo(gle)d News

Posted in News at 12:12 pm by Chris

Pardon the play on words with the title for this post. I had to make some reference to its content.

I logged into my e-mail this morning to find, as usual, a number of messages from my website letting me know what’s going on. Amongst some them was an ip address I recognized; that of Google’s googlebot. As it turns out, today was the day Google decided to pay me a visit. (Along with, apparently, every other web bot on the net going by the list of them in the Analog stats.) As a result, this website has a much better result when trying to find it by its main keywords.

For instance, if you go and search ‘Chris Braybrook’ at Google (or Yahoo), you will get this site at the top of the listings. ‘Chris Braybrook portfolio’ gets a slightly lower listing (3rd or 4th I believe). However, it’s still there. :)

For the last several months, my site’s ranking and keywords have resulted in some pretty poor traffic. Thus, I am happy to see that things have changed in that regard. (Before you had to use like 5 keywords to get a good search result for the site. Now, 2 will do it.)

This was such good news for me this morning, that I just felt I had to post something about it!