Other Stats
Other search engines find us too! Sympatico, DMOZ, AOL and AltaVista. Here’s how people find us…
Sympatico, DMOZ, AOL and Altavista, aka the lesser search engines that people still use en masse.
Other search engines find us too! Sympatico, DMOZ, AOL and AltaVista. Here’s how people find us…
Sympatico, DMOZ, AOL and Altavista, aka the lesser search engines that people still use en masse.
More malaise for Gastown. Evan (one of the owners) leaves Curious on Powell Street and now people are speculating to its demise. and now… One Restaurant appears to be closed.
RIP One Restaurant. We a great event there but I feel that there could’ve been more engagement from their side on the promotions angle.
Now they’re closed for the count. Looks like the screens have been pulled out and the place vacated. A notice on the front door depicts an apology for being closed. The notice on the inside appears to be a notice of termination of lease.
So… now that you’ve looked at the Google and Yahoo! stats, what are people typing into MSN to find us? Well.. interestingly you can definitely see the variance in what people do to get to us based on the search engines’ algorithms.
I still feel that Google’s searches are most relevant to find information. I see alot of people trying to find out specific event information and they do wind up getting what they want based on what they see on our site.
Yahoo! stats as always are a bit harder to decipher. The biggest issue I have is that the Yahoo mail referrals appear to be search engine hits on the stats. They clearly aren’t.
So, here’s what people have been typing in to find me on Yahoo!
I’m in process of updating the Urban Mixer website architecture to accomodate multiple cities. In doing so, URLs for my sites have changed. I had concerns about the Google Sandbox and losing our page rankings but it seems things are as strong as ever.
All of the content we had on the Urban Mixer sites (whether it was WWW2 which was the primary Plone site or WWW3 which was a Squid front-end for the Plone site on a completely different server and ultimately the place where most requests going to WWW were being redirected were geared to Vancouver.
In the new site for Vancouver, vancouver.urbanmixer.com I made some changes to structure. Firstly, the data was imported from the old site and nothing else. Secondly, the directory structure changed – Plone is case sensistive and I opted for lowercase directory names in the new site. (In the old site the directory name’s first letter was capitalized so /Events would now be /events). I did some fancy footwork with the 404 asp script on www.urbanmixer.com to compensate (by making directory requests lowercase then redirecting them to vancouver.urbanmixer.com) and then proceeded to redirect WWW2 and WWW3 to this site.
Okay, enough technobabble – if you want to know how to do this you can contact me. The end result is that our Google ranking is still strong and unhindered. The spiders are finding the content where they think they saw it last.
So here’s what people have been using to find us lately on Google:
I haven’t blogged much lately but have been focusing on my flickr site… here are some photosets that I’ve put together lately in the last couple months.
Over 4000 photos and more to go!
I keep uploading right up to my 2GB limit on a monthly basis.
My favourites tend to be the artistic stuff I am doing, only a couple experiments so far but you can check them here.
