{"id":1412,"date":"2007-02-06T23:26:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T03:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2008-02-07T21:22:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T01:22:33","slug":"a-closer-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"A closer look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">S<\/span>o<a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1411' rel='attachment wp-att-1411' title='Statistics'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/traf_fic_re-port.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Statistics' \/><\/a>meone was curious about the current (running) statistics of this domain, and particularly, this blog. I&#8217;ll let you do the math.\n<\/p>\n<p>Some side comments: about the majority of traffic comes from search engines, as you could have told from the extra category I set up just to cover those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?cat=40\">specific (popular) keywords<\/a>. There&#8217;s obviously (and this totally surprises me) interest for particular information about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=pico-salax&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a\">&#8216;pico-salax&#8217;<\/a> (imagine that), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?hl=en&#038;q=Toshiba+P100+sd3&#038;btnG=Search&#038;meta=\">P100 SD3 review&#8217;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=lyrics+the+people+are+heroes&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a\">&#8216;The People are heroes lyrics&#8217;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?hl=en&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&#038;hs=dvc&#038;q=OdbcDatareader%2Bexample&#038;btnG=Search&#038;meta=\">&#8216;OdbcDataReader+example&#8217;<\/a> and others. These hits are consistently found in the logfiles (particularly the Pico-Salax one), which makes me highly doubtful about these search-engine optimization &#8216;techniques&#8217; claims (this is not going to make everybody reading this happy). Primarily, it seems, that the web is about sharing useful information (and obviously media) and not for your paid-by-whoever info-advertisements. There was a time in the early 90s that the web was all about finding specific information too.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not all hope is lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone was curious about the current (running) statistics of this domain, and particularly, this blog. I&#8217;ll let you do the math. Some side comments: about the majority of traffic comes from search engines, as you could have told from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1412\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}