{"id":2534,"date":"2002-10-26T15:20:58","date_gmt":"2002-10-26T09:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/26\/search-engine-optimization\/"},"modified":"2002-10-26T15:20:58","modified_gmt":"2002-10-26T09:50:58","slug":"search-engine-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200210\/search-engine-optimization\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine Optimization!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have decided to change my tagline to <br \/>&#8220;The Examined Life  &#8211;  your  one-stop source on the web  for information about average heights of men and women&#8221;.<br \/>Why does it look as if all over the world, anyone who is interested in heights of men and women land up at my site?<br \/> These are some search strings through which people came to my site in the past <b>one week!<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;q=average+height+of+woman+man&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">average height of woman man<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=women+taller+than+men\">women taller than men<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=woman+height+6&#37;275&#37;27&#37;27&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">woman height 6&#8217;5&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=average+height+men&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;hl=en&#038;btnG=Google+Search&#038;meta=cr&#37;3DcountryUK&#37;7CcountryGB\">average height men<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=&#37;22average+height&#37;22+men+women&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;safe=off&#038;start=20&#038;sa=N\">&#8220;average height&#8221; men women<\/a>\t<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aolsearch.aol.com\/dirsearch.adp?start=&#038;from=topsearchbox.&#37;2Fdirsearch.adp&#038;query=average+woman&#37;27s+height\">average woman&#8217;s height<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and some guys who can&#8217;t do maths landed up too. <\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/bin\/search?p=5+feet+and+6+inches+is+how+many+metres+in+height\">5 feet and 6 inches is how many metres in height<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=what+is+1.77+metres+in+feet+height&#038;btnG=Google+Search&#038;hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8\">what is 1.77 metres in feet height<\/a> (My site came first for this and gave him an answer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These search queries form the <i>majority<\/i> of search requests in my referrer logs. All because of one stupid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/?Requestid=13\">puzzle<\/a> which I posted and no one answered <img border=\"0\" src=\"images\\sad.gif\" \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have decided to change my tagline to &#8220;The Examined Life &#8211; your one-stop source on the web for information about average heights of men and women&#8221;.Why does it look as if all over the world, anyone who is interested in heights of men and women land up at my site? These are some search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}