Friday 8th January
First page of google? Yes I am. Or am I?
On [December 3rd], Google made the biggest change that has ever happened in search engines, and the world largely yawned. Maybe Google timed its announcement that it was personalizing everyone’s search results just right, so few would notice. Maybe no one really understood how significant the change was. Whatever the reason, it was a huge development and deserves much more attention than it has received so far.
It seems that I see my own site as the first entry because I click on it quite often. Other people don’t see it on the front page. How misleading! But what’s interesting is the number of queries coming in – that suggests that a lot of people are also seeing it on the front page (three weddings, two family portraits, one commercial and two fashion/headshot). But now we can’t be sure what anyone is seeing.
So I just have to keep up with taking good photographs, and providing a service people will come back for and hopefully recommend.
An interesting development for sure!
Page 3 for me, Stu, searching on ‘photographer leics’
The website is looking great!
Mwah!
Maris
8 Jan 10 at 1:35 pm
Second to last on first page searching for ‘photographer loughborough’ (no quotes!)
Second entry on second page when searching for ‘wedding photographer loughborough’, but also maps letter G on the first page
Roger
8 Jan 10 at 3:01 pm
It is, of course, very nice to hear what other people type in, too!
Stu
8 Jan 10 at 3:04 pm
In the olden days, when everything was in black and white
lordhutton
8 Jan 10 at 10:51 pm
To add to the confusion, it will give you the “normal” results for your region if you are not logged in to a google account.
(oh, and you’re on the first page for photographer loughborough here).
Alistair
9 Jan 10 at 12:15 am
“photographer leicestershire” 2nd page. Are Google messing with your mind?
lordhutton
9 Jan 10 at 4:25 pm
I got confused by this too. The other day I searched for something and was shocked to find pages from my own blog as the first three results. The content on those blog pages wasn’t even related to what I’d searched for!
Then I remembered your post, and all became clear. Grr.
Jonathan
12 Jan 10 at 8:11 am