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August 02, 2006
How Does This Work, Exactly?
I've always maintained that much of science and technology are PFM, and this, I think, is proof.
In checking my stats, I've discovered this odd anomaly. A number of visitors (more every day) are coming to me from a google search that shouldn't bring them anywhere near my site. I kept seeing this url that had nothing to do with me, and it took me a while to figure out the magic formula.
People who do a google image search for lilacs receive, as one of their options, a link to this image. Only, when they click on the picture, they are sent here. I have no idea why. Nothing on that page has anything to do with lilacs. And I'm sure it confuses the visitors who click expecting a pretty picture and instead get a rant about my torn ACL.
While I appreciate the increased site traffic, I'm not sure this is helpful to me in the long run, as I suspect those poor, misdirected souls assume I've somehow hijacked them. It would be like getting on a bus for Topeka and ending up in L.A.
I would just like to state for the record that I have nothing to do with this. I don't even know who these other people are. Although they seem nice enough.
My mad html skillz are limited to cut and paste. And then typing the new message over the old. Oh yes. I can also do italics and bold face. And last week, I figured out how to change colors in Blogger. Whooo. I have no idea how to make something like the above situation happen. Even my technology geek whiz kid husband has no idea how to make something like that happen.
Ergo, it's Pure Fucking Magic.
So for those of you who are visiting via the Appleseed Enterprises lilac photo link on Google Image Search, I'm sorry for your confusion. And welcome. Feel free to look around. You might decide to stay a while. And that's fine too.
Posted by sally at August 2, 2006 10:17 AM
Comments
Oh, easy. Down near the bottom of that page (which has more than one entry on it, since it's an archive page) you say: "And did I mention that it's planted between lilacs so that in the spring, you cringe every time you look into the backyard because they do not work well with the scarlet leaves on the beech tree?" And you've linked the word "lilacs" to the image mentioned above. And to Google? This is a linkbait perfect storm. The word lilacs linked to a picture of lilacs? So you are helping the Google search spider find a picture of lilacs. In return, it is showing folks your page when they click, to see the context of the link. Most folks, when linking a picture, will also include the picture on the page. But it obviously isn't necessary, so it can look a little odd and be confusing when there's just a link. But Google loves you for nudging them toward lilacs.
Good lord. I'm such a geek.
Posted by: Terry Bain at August 2, 2006 03:09 PM
Ah. And thanks to our Shakespeare site (tptt.org), and the popularity of several of my own images (hello foot fetishists!), image links from Sallyacious.com are more popular. (Image Google Polyphemos sometime for an example. Or levitation.) Which means that this link appears higher up the list than it otherwise might for the site I linked to in the first place.
I get it now.
Thanks Terry.
Posted by: Sallyacious at August 2, 2006 03:33 PM
And yet, no-one has found my urine on face post via google yet.
I do not understand this inter of the net.
Also? It is not like getting on a bus for Topeka and winding up in LA. It is like getting on a bus for the local sewage plant and winding up someplace infinitely more wonderful. I love your blog, and your pictures.
Posted by: desiree at August 2, 2006 03:47 PM
On the other hand, you show up on page 5 of a Google search for Desiree.
That's not too bad.
Posted by: Sallyacious at August 2, 2006 05:12 PM
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