Sabrina Dent: Freelance web designer, developer and internet marketer living in Cork, Ireland with one dog and a husband in no particular order.
The Devil Wears Green
The interpipes have decided to irritate me today. Which is unfortunate, as apparently I own them. Having discovered that, I’m thinking of firing the lot. After all, I’ve read the whole thing anyway.
First of all, Technorati is lying to me. It is insisting that only seven people in the whole wide web link to sabrinadent.com, and I know that’s bollocks because I’ve seen inbound links from other blogs* in my referrer stats. I’m telling you, the devil wears green.
(Given that WordPress is a little, shall we say, weak in this regard, does anyone have brilliant suggestions for monitoring who is linking to a site? My vanity curiosity knows no bounds.)
Also we bumped into Mulley yesterday at Nosh + Coffee in Cork, and my husband surprised me with the announcement that I am the #1 Google result for the term interpipes. Now if I could only learn to leverage that into something profitable, like Damien has with Irish slut.
I mean, even Google asks me “Did you mean enterprises?”
No, but duly noted. I hereby resolve to be more enterprising in 2008. Now stop nagging me. You sound like my mother.
Finally, my logs also indicate that a number of people are searching for me by name, which is always disconcerting. Probably hitmen and bill collectors. Even more disconcerting, however, is that because I’ve been silent for almost two years, Google has basically lost track of me and is digging into the deepest depths of historic hell to come up with any results. It’s pulling mailing list posts from 2004 and newspaper articles from 2005, and even more embarrassingly, a link to a webmail client interface I “designed” in, umm, 2002 holy shit, 1999. Possibly with a crayon whilst wearing an eye patch. Or drunk. Or both.
Please reboot the internet. Thank you.
*PS: If you’re on that list, thanks a bunch. It’s hard being new!
03 Jan 2008
| In: Crankypants |
Would changing the permalinks to name/date based help? I note Beaut.ie have the same problem in Technorati, but they too use the p= format. Will also help on google hits! Just a thought!
03.01.2008, 10:07 amI’d deffo change the permalinks to be post based as in sabrinadent.com/the_devil_wears_green.html – it’s easy enough to do in WordPress.
I must have a gander and see if I can’t find a plugin for wordpress that can see who’s linking to you.
03.01.2008, 11:19 amSeriously? You guys think it’s a permalink thing? OK well I asked for advice and I’m happy to take it, so I’ll try that. Thanks a lot!
03.01.2008, 12:41 pmPS: Also plugins ++ so thanks :)
03.01.2008, 12:48 pmYour site is very entertaining and funny so I wouldn’t be surprised if more than 7 people linked here but two things to consider:
– I’m not very computer-literate but I’ve had similar problems with Technorati. I think it’s something to do with the way it sees websites. You and I might see http://WWW.mysite.com but technorati (& rss feeds) sees (I think) http://mysite.com. Sometimes it gets confused??
– Re the inbound links: I also think there’s an irishblogs.ie sidebar widget that you can put on your site that scrolls the latest posts to irishblogs.ie as they happen. Someone might click your link in the widget and you think someone’s linking to you.
Finally, I don’t link to you directly, but I have you saved in my rss feedreader so maybe technorati doesn’t count me, and others like me, who do most of their blog-surfing via their feed reader (eg FeedDemon).
Finally, finally, if you’re looking to increase traffic &/or your profile, maybe you could release this wordpress theme, it’s pretty cool.
05.01.2008, 8:11 pmThanks, guys. After some help from you folks, an email correspondent and my husband, I’ve got exceedingly ugly, unbearably long, Technorati-preferred URLs now. I’ve got good RSS stats via FeedBurner and good page view stats from my logs, so I have a vague handle on my traffic, it’s just the technorati thing was p’ing me off :)
05.01.2008, 8:34 pm