{"id":119,"date":"2011-10-05T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T03:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sijnstra.name\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2011-10-05T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T03:23:46","slug":"search-rankings-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sijnstra.name\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/search-rankings-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Search rankings update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to do another snapshot of where things are at. Bear in mind that rankings do bounce around a lot, and I am only viewing them from my own searching perspective (affecting locality). I am not logged in to Google when searching, so hopefully it doesn&#8217;t tailor the answers by detecting who I am some other way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">www.google.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Page 1: bad results at  #5,7 (out of 10)<\/p>\n<p>Page 2: #9<\/p>\n<p>Page 3: #5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/au.yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">au.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Page 1: #9 (out of 10)<\/p>\n<p>Page 2: #3, #9, #10<\/p>\n<p>Page 3: #2, #8<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.bing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Page 1: #9 (out of 10)<\/p>\n<p>Page 2: #3, #9, #10<\/p>\n<p>Page 3: #2, #8<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ask.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.ask.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Page 1: #3, #5 (out of 10; excluding my ads inserted between 1 &amp; 2, and at the end.)<\/p>\n<p>Page 2: #3<\/p>\n<p>Page 3: none!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/duckduckgo.com\" target=\"_blank\">duckduckgo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One continuous page: result #5, 6, 12 out of a total of 27 results. One less result here is a good thing in this context.<\/p>\n<p>Bing and Yahoo! are looking a lot better on the first page. Very happy with that. Ask has improved slightly on page 1, and Google has made no difference to page one. Duckduckgo has also improved a little, as all of the engines have improved at least a little in the lower ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, there are signs of improvement but still a lot more to do. First impressions count, so my focus is on the first page; but I still want to be more thorough than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to do another snapshot of where things are at. Bear in mind that rankings do bounce around a lot, and I am only viewing them from my own searching perspective (affecting locality). I am not logged in to Google when searching, so hopefully it doesn&#8217;t tailor the answers by detecting who I am some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sijnstra.name\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/search-rankings-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Search rankings update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[22,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sijnstra.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sijnstra.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sijnstra.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sijnstra.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sijnstra.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sijnstra.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sijnstra.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sijnstra.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sijnstra.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}