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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 10:44 | |
| Here's a list of phrases entered into Google in the last 30 days which resulted in people browsing Res Historica. Some of them are priceless, some of them just make one wonder about what's out there!
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Islanddawn Censura
Posts : 2163 Join date : 2012-01-05 Location : Greece
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 11:15 | |
| Flatulence seems very popular! And speaking of flatulence, PG is popular too.
Who would be looking for Catigern, I wonder? |
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Priscilla Censura
Posts : 2772 Join date : 2012-01-16
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 12:37 | |
| Ah! What a Google-giggle-list! Loved it. It's not all dull running a site , is it? I am concerned for those in search of a funeral director getting us, though. |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 12:57 | |
| The reason these search phrases are deemed to be important is that one is then meant to tailor one's site to accommodate the searchers' wishes and give them what they want, thereby increasing its popularity and "relevance".
Ok - so who wants to take the last one first and start a topic? |
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Triceratops Censura
Posts : 4377 Join date : 2012-01-05
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 13:21 | |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 13:23 | |
| The pictures don't work.
(maybe it's just as well....) |
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Triceratops Censura
Posts : 4377 Join date : 2012-01-05
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 13:34 | |
| That's strange, they were OK in the preview
Working now. |
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Islanddawn Censura
Posts : 2163 Join date : 2012-01-05 Location : Greece
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 15:21 | |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 16:59 | |
| Temp will be no doubt pleased that one of her threads is the one that shows up when some poor benighted fools enter "wolf hall by phillipa gregory" in their google box! |
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Islanddawn Censura
Posts : 2163 Join date : 2012-01-05 Location : Greece
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 19:11 | |
| A lot on the list is understandable from my memory of discussions here, but Tamasin Day Lewis, and twice? Who is she anyway? |
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Priscilla Censura
Posts : 2772 Join date : 2012-01-16
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 19:27 | |
| Come on own up - someone's led 'em here - so who went to the Quorn Hunt ball in '56, then?
If you want some variety of searchers to linger longer then we must up our game in topic content.
Anyone for Heterae? - I'll start one on that if you like. That seems to attract. |
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ferval Censura
Posts : 2602 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 23:08 | |
| Most of the searches could just about be linked to topics here but - winchcombe glos. nursery school 1940s: kelley o'hara boob grab: tight perm for young lady: stargroves east woodhay/sale? And since Quorn wasn't produced until 1985, '56 was a bit early to go hunting for it and I can't believe that the pack would run in full cry after a fungus anyway.
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Priscilla Censura
Posts : 2772 Join date : 2012-01-16
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Thu 06 Sep 2012, 23:51 | |
| And none of is posh enough to be of the Quorn Hunt, I venture. Keeping hunting hacks is a step up from quorn on the cob, ferv. |
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ferval Censura
Posts : 2602 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Fri 07 Sep 2012, 00:19 | |
| Indeed P, in my childhood days I used to read about the Quorn and such like, being one of the few tenement children in Glasgow who would avidly follow Pat Smythe and such like, as well as having a regrettable royal obsession. I never quite made it into those circles but my parents had friends, long since, who rode with the Renfrewshire hunt and who let me feed their steeplechasers and ride their old nags. |
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Caro Censura
Posts : 1522 Join date : 2012-01-09
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Fri 07 Sep 2012, 01:08 | |
| Pat Smythe must have been very famous. I wasn't a horsey girl (though I did read a few of Jill's pony stories by someone I will need to google. Ah yes, Ruby ferguson) and yet her name is very familiar to me, now that you mention it. Are the horse people of nowadays so well known? Mark Todd is in New Zealand, but that's understandable, but others?
I'm not altogether comfortable with the idea that what I google can be checked out. I am a little careful because of that knowledge - and because I don't want any more pulsating penises staring me in the face, as happened once (though doubtless nothing to do with my googling). |
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Islanddawn Censura
Posts : 2163 Join date : 2012-01-05 Location : Greece
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Fri 07 Sep 2012, 09:43 | |
| After that, I bet your googling had you goggling though, Caro! But yes, you have to be very careful with the words used when googling thesedays. |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Fri 07 Sep 2012, 12:28 | |
| There is a serious point about this list however. The overwhelming majority of queries submitted were genuine, if sometimes quite fanciful, historical queries and led people directly to content on our threads here. The implication is clear that the more diverse the topics we discuss here - both as topics opened and in the content of replies - the more such queries will be satisfied and therefore the greater the likelihood of attracting new members.
Just saying ... |
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Priscilla Censura
Posts : 2772 Join date : 2012-01-16
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Sat 08 Sep 2012, 00:26 | |
| So we must 'Up our game.' Useful phrase used on the Baking show contest. I mentioned it to the oven today.
I hope you get a better response, nordmann. |
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Islanddawn Censura
Posts : 2163 Join date : 2012-01-05 Location : Greece
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Sat 08 Sep 2012, 05:33 | |
| 'Onward and upward' we go then. |
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Priscilla Censura
Posts : 2772 Join date : 2012-01-16
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Tue 11 Sep 2012, 17:05 | |
| Can we have another "searchers' " list this month, nordmann? That one was revealing.
It is hard to think up areas that they might use to happen on use - ideas that are not off key, that is.
Somehow my website stats page - like it or not - is linked to thi s one now. It told me in glowing red that I had a message here - and one click and I arrived here - and did. So nothing is web sacred is it? The oddist things take people to my site - and for several times.... I might try one as a search myself and see if that tells me anything. On the otherhand, do I really want to know? |
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ferval Censura
Posts : 2602 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Tue 11 Sep 2012, 19:34 | |
| Could this be what they're looking for? |
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Vizzer Censura
Posts : 1849 Join date : 2012-05-12
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Sun 19 Apr 2020, 15:14 | |
| - Caro wrote:
- I'm not altogether comfortable with the idea that what I google can be checked out.
I think we probably overestimate our own importance in the greater scheme of the online world and also overestimate the power of the so-called ‘all-powerful’ players such as Google and Amazon etc. During the ongoing pandemic and with the house, the gardens, the outbuildings, the cars and our bodies having been varyingly clipped, filed, stretched, dusted, swept, painted, washed, polished, sewn, tightened, wiped, aligned, brushed, stripped-down, greased, sanded, patched, touched-up, pruned, vacuumed, pared, oiled, scrubbed, and trimmed to within half an inch of themselves, I decided to repair (excuse the pun) to Res Historica to see what’s cooking. Needless to say the Dish of the Day thread has not disappointed with an extensive and mouth-watering menu of fresh new entries. To my mind it’s the stand-out thread of the whole forum. Anyway, this got me to thinking just how many people during the ‘lockdown’ are able to avail of Meles’ wonderful postings rather than, say, the well-publicised offerings from Jamie Oliver and Nigel Slater etc promoted by the likes of the BBC and Channel 4. I decided to test various internet search engines to see if the Dish of the Day thread registers on them. It doesn’t. Here are my findings after having typed the phrase ‘Dish of the Day’ into search boxes: Yahoo/Bing gave 71 pages of findings but no Res Historica. Webcrawer gave 29 pages of findings but no Res Historica and seemed more interested in directing me towards eBay than anything else. Google gave 20 pages of findings but no Res Historica. Ask.com gave 10 pages of findings and (like Webcrawler) was primarily directing one towards eBay. Lycos gave just 1 page of 10 results and no Res Historica. Considering that over the years I must have typed the words ‘Res Historica’ into search engines hundreds of times, their algorithms are seemingly not attuned enuff to then match a search for ‘Dish of the Day’ with said forum. One wonders if nordmann, Meles (and the rest of us) should be concerned by this – or else feel relieved that Big Brother is not watching us and simply doesn’t care. |
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PaulRyckier Censura
Posts : 4902 Join date : 2012-01-01 Location : Belgium
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Sun 19 Apr 2020, 16:28 | |
| Vizzer, glad to see you once again on the board. And I can easely understand that you are more interested in rabbit with plums (or is it prunes?) than in my "Charles I" thread... I see now that I in MM's thread just translated lapin aux pruneaux by "rabbit with plumes" To return to your message, Vizzer, this is an example why I, when searching on google, with my specific search terms, many times bad English, came automatically via the mighty Google, on my own threads on for instance Res Historica, Historum or Passion Histoire... But I don't think those big brother robots searching for political or terrorist plots or just to help the merchandisers are bothered by my "mistake combinations"... No it is just on google the numbers of hits to a certain word that are primordial for the robot to classify you on the first window... I inserted once a perfect normal subject in google, but while occasionally a weird one of the show bizz, was popular on that time I had to wade through tenths of windows before I first encountered something "useful" Kind regards, Paul. |
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Vizzer Censura
Posts : 1849 Join date : 2012-05-12
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Tue 16 Mar 2021, 18:54 | |
| The Who is online? section on the Res Historica homepage is indicating that yesterday saw the most ever users. One wonders which thread(s) prompted that flurry. |
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PaulRyckier Censura
Posts : 4902 Join date : 2012-01-01 Location : Belgium
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Tue 16 Mar 2021, 19:59 | |
| - Vizzer wrote:
- The Who is online? section on the Res Historica homepage is indicating that yesterday saw the most ever users. One wonders which thread(s) prompted that flurry.
I guess it was one of us, who triggered it? ...I guess coincidentally... ... Kind regards from Paul to Vizzer. |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: How they found us ... Wed 17 Mar 2021, 09:29 | |
| According to Google Analytics 75 of them were human, even. Of the 75, 15 of the humans lingered for more than 10 mins on Meles meles' historical cooking pages. By internet standards that's good - even Wikipedia would rate that a significant "human engagement" score for any one of their pages.
Of the non-human ones employing search criteria a suspiciously large chunk of the trawling hit the front page and went no further having failed to find a match for "United States", I see. One can read many things into such bot-heavy trawling events, though I reckon in this case nothing more sinister than a rather badly executed marketing trawl was to blame. We obviously disappointed the bots terribly .... |
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