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Dumb Google Luck
I like to keep track of the search terms that send people to BBspot. More for entertainment purposes than any business reasons. I'm proud to be near the top for "gay porno", "adult PC games" and "Microsoft antispyware" all related terms, obviously. Those terms don't send a ton of traffic, maybe a couple hundred hits a day between the three, but traffic is traffic.

So yesterday, I'm looking at my logs and see "Google rtg" has replaced the big three at the top of the charts. I'm wondering why the heck people are searching for it, and why BBspot would be linked for that. It turns out there was an article posted on Slashdot which had the term Google RTG in it, but nobody seemed to know what that meant. In the article the guy says ""He notes that Google’s RTG feature already implements some 70 percent of the functions of Microsoft Office." As luck would have it we have an article about Google's new search formula which has the phrase having the sequence of letters "rtg" alone or within a word more than once on a page."

Talk about dumb luck. I put some random letter sequence in an article about Google and then some guy uses the term in an article about Google that gets posted on Slashdot. Of course, now I'm linking the article and using the phrase again, so our search relevance should go up even more. Filed under Musings by Brian - Mon Oct 3, 2005 @ 12:00 AM (Permalink - Discuss)

  
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