Maya
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Post by Maya on Dec 31, 2008 18:24:02 GMT -5
I was doing a little research and discovered that subversify.com is not available on major search engines. I typed the following keywords: subversify and subversify.com, to my realization, yahoo was the only search engine that revealed a link to our magazine.
Now, aol and google give us links to our own blogs which have the keyword subversify in them but nothing to the actual site. This is quite odd, since subversify is not a popular term nor keyword and it should show up. When I list items on ebay that other sellers have not offered my merchandise usually shows through simple search engine inquiries. Do we have to pay to have the mag listed on other search engines?
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Post by karlsie on Jan 2, 2009 15:59:42 GMT -5
I've noticed that too, and have wondered about it. Maybe it takes a little while for a new site to co-ordinate with search engines. A lot of web sites come and go quickly. Three months isn't much time to become firmly established as an active site. Nor is the word, "subversify" one that a reader would specifically type in during a search unless that reader already knew the name of the magazine. Since search engine prompts are largely based on the number of times viewers use specific words in their inquiries, my guess is that it hasn't been used enough to create an automatic response from the ingenuity of search engines.
My other guess lies in the individual make-up of personal computers. I've noticed that typing in key words on other friends' computers will bring up a separate listing of sites than my own brings up, or if they are the same sites, in a different order of appearance. Personal computers attempt to anticipate what their owner wants. Bringing up new sites according to new desires is a learning process for them. While i can't say any of this is the reason- i avoid the corporate mentality like the plague- i do acknowledge that the advertising media is dependent on a certain practicality. Subversify isn't exactly a household word (yet) so the word would be very low on the list of search engine priorities.
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Post by Mr. Subversify on Jan 2, 2009 17:43:55 GMT -5
Um, you guys must be smoking crack out of the same pipe cause I see subversfy as my #1 hit on google. Evidence:  |
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Post by Mr. Subversify on Jan 2, 2009 17:46:57 GMT -5
fyi, the rome.homelinux.org IS subversify. Don't let the title in the link fool you either, because we are using a CMS the google spider is grabbing whatever it finds first and indexing it - in our case whichever article was posted most recently. I could make a nice meta "Hello and welcome to Subversify" but it ( the google spider) is grabbing us first. As there is no page number in the hyperlink, the home page is what is being selected, not the article in the humor section.
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Post by karlsie on Jan 2, 2009 18:22:18 GMT -5
Hey, it worked this time! I swear it didn't when i tried it a couple of weeks ago from a friend's computer in Anchorage. My pipe doesn't contain chemicals so maybe it's the purple haze.
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Maya
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Post by Maya on Jan 3, 2009 0:52:37 GMT -5
FYI stacy says. Freaking know it all.
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Post by karlsie on Jan 3, 2009 20:07:59 GMT -5
Guess how long it took me to figure out FYI didn't mean, "fuck you, idiot". Ah well. It could still mean that, couldn't it?
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Post by stacystec on Jan 4, 2009 9:55:57 GMT -5
I like it! I'm going to start using FYI in this manner all the time. When I speak with my clients, I'll just start out with FYI. "Wow, Stacy is just so informative" bwahahahaha
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Post by The Late Mitchell Warren on Jan 20, 2009 19:26:33 GMT -5
Yeah i think i found a few of my stories in Google News by typing in certain keywords.
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