A few months ago I put up a brief fun post about dung beetles, surely one of the most comical creatures on this particular planet of ours. Sure enough, Google now considers me the second most authoritative site for the search term Scarabaeidae Scarabaeinae (the scientific Latin name).
How did that happen? It appears that if Google takes a certain site seriously, it takes all content on that site seriously, even if it’s on a topic completely unrelated to the rest of the site.
The good folks at SEOMoz have an interesting post about how “parasite hosters” take advantage of this quirk in Google’s algorithm.
Here’s my question to you: What is the best off-the-wall example you have from your own site of Google considering you an expert on something? Pat Kitano’s TransparentRE.com is considered an expert in transparent something or other — I’ll let him reveal the exact details; Mike Simonsen of Altos Research, on the other hand, apparently gets some traffic from the search phrase, “I married my brother.”
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Image courtesy of wildlife-pictures-online.com
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1 Loren Nason // Apr 6, 2007 at 10:26 pm
I come up third for the search “winforms for vista”
the first 2 results are not relevant to winforms but are links to blogs at MSDN and are about a program for making forms on windows
Sweet!
Loren
2 Sinster Sock Puppet // Apr 7, 2007 at 7:22 am
http://search.earthlink.net/search?q=eskimo snow words 50&area=earthlink-ws&FD=0&
#2 on that search on the old blog
3 John Lockwood // Apr 8, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Interesting article. Who do we know in Santa Cruz so I can do something with particlewave.com?
4 Anonymous // Sep 10, 2007 at 10:07 am
ive seen this type of bug at my house before!!!
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