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January 18, 2006

Back to the Top of the Charts!

For several months now ISOU has been invisible to Google. Since the site went down last year and was rebuilt, Google has not been indexing the site. I had the google search function implemented, followed the same processes I used before to get ISOU up in the rankings, and yet I could not even find current articles on Google.

Last week I set forth to fix this problem. I joined a Google Usenet list and posted about my problem. Answers ranged from, "you've been blacklisted," to "Make sure you dont use a robots.txt, file." After asking my web mistress to remove the Robots file, I went back to google and created a site map for my site. Slowly but surely, the big ole' Google Monster woke up to my presence. Today I finaly reached a milestone...

We're BAAAAACK!

That's right, ISOU is first on Google and Yahoo when you search for the term, "ISOU." Right On!

Update: What's funny, and AWESOME is that the search term "Utopia" on MSN search results in ISOU coming up as the second site listed.

Posted by David A at January 18, 2006 09:32 PM
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Dayum! You're tool bar is seven levels deep. heh he.

Posted by: Ray at January 18, 2006 11:32 PM

I guess the strategy worked Ray. hehe....

Posted by: David Anderson at January 19, 2006 12:03 AM

What sucks is I would have probably been over 2 million hits by now if this had not happened. As the pages get indexed my hit counter is climbing daily.

Posted by: David Anderson at January 19, 2006 12:15 AM

Yeah, but David ... those hits are search engine hits. They are not actual visits. They are robots indexing your site and not just by Google. That is why I have always told you that hits don't mean anything, especially if you are letting every robot on the internet in your site.

Posted by: Angel at January 19, 2006 08:15 AM

I don't think so Angel. I carefully analyze trends on ISOU, and each of the google hits are actually looking for something specific and the track leads back to a specific user who found that page based on google. They were not finding them before. And I dont see anything in my logs for other search engines except Yahoo and occassionaly AOL.

Posted by: David Anderson at January 19, 2006 08:24 AM