{"id":609,"date":"2007-08-10T01:15:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T06:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/10\/googles-index-is-broken"},"modified":"2007-08-10T01:15:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T06:15:42","slug":"googles-index-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/10\/googles-index-is-broken","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s index is broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just listening to an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com\/\">G&#8217;Day World<\/a>, and Cam was mentioning that he owned Australian culture (Google g&#8217;day and his podcast ranks #5 or #6). So I thought I&#8217;d Google myself.<\/p>\n<p>I hit up google.com, entered Colin Charles, and to my dismay, my blog ranks number 3 in the list. Its preceded by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colin Charles Award Winning Wedding and Portrait Photography &#8211; it has the domain colincharles.co.uk and has a PageRank of 1<\/li>\n<li>Music Books, Charles Colin Publ Brass &amp; Jazz Methods&#8230; &#8211; it has the domain charlescolin.com and has a PageRank of 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And then my blog, which has a PageRank of 6. The above two websites have got the strings colin and charles highlighted in the URL, of course. So am I to understand that if I wasn&#8217;t bytebot.net and had my name in my domain name, I&#8217;d rank higher? Or is Google&#8217;s index just broken?<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/web\" rel=\"tag\">web<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/google\" rel=\"tag\">google<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/search\" rel=\"tag\">search<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/index\" rel=\"tag\">index<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/pagerank\" rel=\"tag\">pagerank<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/domain\" rel=\"tag\">domain<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/name\" rel=\"tag\">name<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just listening to an episode of G&#8217;Day World, and Cam was mentioning that he owned Australian culture (Google g&#8217;day and his podcast ranks #5 or #6). So I thought I&#8217;d Google myself. I hit up google.com, entered Colin Charles, and to my dismay, my blog ranks number 3 in the list. Its preceded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-9P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}