Another couple months have passed and not much new has happened in my life. I am still looking for a job. I am still not doing well, and I don't think people get it.
Previously I listed some keywords and phrases that I decided to monitor which were related to a subdomain I have online concerned with a hobby that I don't really actively participate in anymore. In addition to the search terms I checked last time I've added Deathguard as I've decided I should endeavour to rank a little higher for that phrase if I can. All these searches were performed on July 6th, 2006 from Deep Bay British Columbia.
| Keyword | Google Ranking | Yahoo Ranking | MSN Ranking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plaguemarine | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Plague Marine | 16 | 25 | 12 |
| Plaguemarines | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Plague Marines | 1 | 37 | 2 |
| Chaos Space Marine | 9 | 37 | 9 |
| Chaos Space Marines | 7 | 100+ | 33 |
| Nurgle | 1 | 10 | 4 |
| Deathguard | 10 | 51 | 29 |
My lack of updates to nurgle.muschamp.ca combined with the ever increasing size of the internet has resulted in the rankings of my pages decreasing for a number of keywords. This shouldn't come as a surprise and when you were previously ranked first there is no where to go but down. Although I've ceased blogging for a while, I started to write about some of my hobbies which may have a positive effect on my rankings eventually.
Since I have several subdomains that eat up an ever increasing amount of my bandwidth I decided to remove the www. prefix from the domain searches. This may have no effect but in all likelihood it will result in significantly more pages indexed and incoming links to my domain. Maybe the bigger numbers will appear more impressive to the average reader. I've stopped checking Baidu, they seem to have removed my site from their index and I'm tired of struggling with websites in Chinese. I've added in Clusty to replace it.
| Search Engine | Pages Indexed | Search Term | Links to | Search Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ask | 194 | Muskie site:muschamp.ca | - | - |
| 742 | site:muschamp.ca | 79 | link:muschamp.ca | |
| Yahoo | 1470 | site:muschamp.ca | 997 | link:http://www.muschamp.ca |
| MSN | 850 | site:muschamp.ca | 615 | link:muschamp.ca |
| Clusty | 850 | host:"muschamp.ca" | 30 | link:"muschamp.ca" |
All the way back in my original article I wrote about wanting to do better in Google Image search. Like everything to do with search engine optimization patience plays a big role. I also wrote how you could monitor how many images are indexed in Google for your domain and even figure out where you rank for a specific keyword, but I never made a table detailing the results of these queries.
| Images in Google | 408 | |
|---|---|---|
| Images in Yahoo | 292 | |
| Google ranking for "nurgle" image | 27 | "Nurgle" image |
| Yahoo ranking for "nurgle" image | 6 | "Nurgle" image |
| Google ranking for "Plaguemarine" image | 3 | "Plaguemarine" image |
| Yahoo ranking for "Plaguemarine" image | 1 | "Plaguemarine" image |
| Google ranking for "Sauder MBA" image | 1 | "Sauder MBA" image |
| Yahoo ranking for "Sauder MBA" image | 1 | "Sauder MBA" image |
| Google ranking for "Tsinghua MBA" image | 3 | "Tsinghua MBA" image |
| Yahoo ranking for "Tsinghua MBA" image | 1 | "Tsinghua MBA" image |
| Google ranking for "her huge calves" image | 1 | "her huge calves" image |
| Yahoo ranking for "her huge calves" image | no results | |
| Google ranking for "massive calves" image | 1 | "massive calves" image |
| Yahoo ranking for "massive calves" image | - |
Note how for Nurgle and Plaguemarine Google and Yahoo ranked completely different images. I've recently added another gallery of miniatures I painted which I suspect will lead to more pages and images being indexed. I'm not sure if it will increase traffic that much. I actually get most of my traffic from Google as this graphic from Google Analytics shows. The graph is for traffic to Muschamp.ca for the week of June 29th to July 5th 2006. According to the graph 67% of my referrals come from Google. These referrals come from a wide variety of keywords. I've written about some of the odder phrases people have used in search engines and ended up at Muschamp.ca.
I eventually decided to do another follow up piece.
