Netscrap top queries

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Netscrap top queries


I was plunking around the Google Webmasters tool the other day and noticed that they provide some details about the query terms that include netscrap in the results. 

Here are a few first place finishes: 

 
Stuff and Things
 
If Microsoft Made Cars which links to the ever popular 689
 
Netscrap (of course)


Some top 10 hits that I didn't expect to find: 

 
Saduki which refers to the 1999 Darwin Awards
 
Bill Gates Hometown which hits the classic  Bill Gates' house tidbits
 
Diamond Necklesses for a Rap Translation
 
Pub Quizz a typo! Ha! 
 
in kentucky usa it is illegal to carry "ice cream" in your back pocket -- huh? Some trivia about American Law


In any case, it's nice to see that there there are a bunch of high-scoring pages. Remember, this site has been basically untouched for 10 years. I attribute these high-ranking pages to a few simple practices: 

 
consistent use of basic meta tags: keywords especially. 
 
longevity of the domain: goog is supposed to goose the pagerank for domains that aren't fly-by-night
 
consistent urls: for the past decade there have been a pile of sites that link to netscrap.com. I never changed my urls! So every ancient hello-world page that some pimply kid (who now runs facebook et al) linked to netscrap.com still collecting dust on some (geocities, tripod, etc.) server still links to a valid page. It's still helping! 


Yes, I could still beef up the meta tags, use of the title="" element in links, and clean up urls to be more seo-friendly to boost pagerank further. And sure, the site isn't in the top slice of sites on the net anymore. But it's trucking along with a marketing budget of $0.


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