Updated: 29/11/2002; 7:47:19 AM.
Victor Echo Zulu
A city slicker moves to the bush
        

Friday, 8 February 2002

GoogleStak - BurningBird makes a great point about how Google doesn't seem to cater for the "when I need the information" sites [like ours]. 7:59:50 PM    Comments ()  

Web Stats - I often take a moment to look at the statistics from my web server. It has this little interface that lets you see who is currently connected to your server.

What I see in my stats...

Kind of like looking over someone's shoulder, as you can see what pages they are viewing, and hence know what they've clicked on. I just itch to say "May I help you?" or "Everything ok?" or "You'll love our courses!"

Could my ISP be persuaded to add a "whisperBox" that pops up in their browser and let's me chat with them.

1:59:29 PM    Comments ()  

GoogleStak Update #2 - Well the home page (the subject of the GoogleStak) was refreshed by Google again just now, and the changes I made to the page last night were reflected in the new entry in the cache [of course]. The exciting thing is that for my selected keywords we are having some great success.

What seems to have happened is that rather than forcing a higher page rank [as my hypothesis stated] - which is still 4/10, the GoogleStak gave me the opportunity [by providing a daily refresh] to massage the text on my page and update the copy to try and rank higher in searches.

New search results:

  • flash training sydney - #1
  • dreamweaver training sydney - #1
  • ultradev training sydney - #1
  • fireworks training sydney - #1
  • macromedia training sydney - #3
  • flash training melbourne - #4
  • dreamweaver training melbourne - #3
  • ultradev training melbourne - #1
  • fireworks training melbourne - #3
  • macromedia training melbourne - #1
  • flash training australia - #3
  • dreamweaver training australia - #1
  • ultradev training australia - #1
  • fireworks training australia - #5
  • macromedia training australia - #1
12:20:04 PM    Comments ()  

GoogleStak Update - even though my idea was not taken up by a large number of people, we have seen some results. The home page of http://www.standouttraining.com was refreshed in the cache on the 5th and the 6th February. I will be very interested to see if it is updaterd on the 7th as well. Previously it was on a 4 - 6 week update cycle. PageRank remains at 4/10. 4:02:09 AM    Comments ()  

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