A co-worker/friend of mine is tracking himself through googlerankings.com, trying to get his site listed as the number one search on Google, Yahoo! and MSN for his name. Out of curiousity, I manually searched my full name on each of the search engines to see what my years on the internet have reaped.
Google Top 5:
Comic Book Commentary
comiccommentary.blogspot.com/loudpoet productions
www.loudpoet.com/BUZZSCOPE :: Establishing Shots #4: One Year Later
www.buzzscope.com/features.php?id=1209Blogger: User Profile: Guy Gonzalez
www.blogger.com/profile/1165003louderARTS Project
www.louderarts.com/poets/gonzalez/
I’m a little surprised by the last three searches as they seem rather specific, especially the Buzzscope column and my louderARTS page. I’d have expected my staff page on Buzzscope to have ranked higher than a specific column, but that column does include my Top 10 list for 2005 and had a lot of links to it so it illustrates the importance Google places on incoming links, but at the same time, it makes the Blogger profile and the louderARTS bio page seem odd as I doubt there’s more than a handful of places those are linked from. Also suprising is the absence of this blog, my most consistently updated internet presence over the past 3 years, despite the recent lull.
Yahoo! Top 5:
Comic Book Commentary
comiccommentary.blogspot.compairNIC – Domain Name Registration
www.loudpoet.comloudpoet.com: guy stuff
loudpoet.blogspot.comGuy LeCharles Gonzalez: About
www.loudpoet.com/Guy/about.htmla little bit louder
www.geocities.com/loudpoet
My comics blog and personal site get top ranking here, too – though Yahoo!’s seemingly not updated the description since loudpoet.com went down for a week last month when I was fixing my spam problem on the account – but the rest of the results differ greatly, not recognizing Buzzscope at all, and double-dipping on loudpoet.com. Most surprising is my old GeoCities site for a little bit louder ranking so highly, which must partly be due to Yahoo! owning GeoCities and ranking their pages a bit higher than they realistically should be.
MSN Top 5:
Blogger: User Profile: Guy Gonzalez
* www.blogger.com/profile/1165003loudpoet.com: guy stuff
* loudpoet.blogspot.comComic Book Commentary: Review: DEMO #1-12
* comiccommentary.blogspot.com/2005/03/review-demo-1-12.html
BUZZSCOPE :: Establishing Shots #4: One Year Later
* www.buzzscope.com/features.php?id=1209
Guy LeCharles Gonzalez: Appearances
* www.loudpoet.com/Guy/appearances.html
MSN comes in with the oddest rankings, with my Blogger profile on top of the list, and specific pages from the comics blog and Buzzscope beating out my personal site. Even weirder is that loudpoet.com is represented by my appearances page, instead of the main page, the about page, or even the writing page which gets listed as a secondary result. MSN is also the only one that doesn’t give direct props to my poetry-related sites.
