{"id":268,"date":"2003-12-05T01:56:39","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T06:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/referrer_appreciation\/"},"modified":"2003-12-05T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T06:56:39","slug":"referrer_appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/referrer_appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Referrer Appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Site Meter, visits to this weblog during November increased 50% over the October total. Thanks to everyone who has been stopping by. And a special thanks to the folks here<\/a> and here<\/a> for making this growth rate possible. I sometimes feel for all the people who click on search results link with such high hopes . . . only to end up here. 8^)
\nSpeaking of Google, not everyone<\/a> is happy with the company these days:<\/p>\n

Many businesses are angry that changes to the Google search engine have made it difficult for customers to find them.
\nFor internet businesses – or any company trading online – it’s vital that they can be found easily through web search engines.
\nThe search engine operators want users to get the most accurate results, so websites must often comply with exacting rules.
\nBut Google’s changes have puzzled computer users – no-one can work out what they are or why they have been made.
\n. . .
\n“How it works is a bit of a mystery – it’s like knowing what goes into a can of Coca-Cola,” says Andrew Craig of Webuser Magazine.
\n“People are constantly trying to guess what’s going on inside Google and trying to manipulate their sites so their ranking is as high as possible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe those people should just set up blogs. I haven’t done a thing to manipulate my site’s rankings and people seem to be findng their way here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Site Meter, visits to this weblog during November increased 50% over the October total. Thanks to everyone who has been stopping by. And a special thanks to the folks here and here for making this growth rate possible. I sometimes feel for all the people who click on search results link with such […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}