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Showing posts with label Off Topic. Show all posts

Tuesday 4 September 2012

SEO Gone Mad (oh, and link bait for the Paralympics)

G'day:
OK, this is the weirdest one yet.  I was wondering why the hell my blog was so popular today - it's been my biggest day ever so far with a mammoth 600 hits - and I started looking at where the traffic was coming from, because basically unless Ray Camden mentions me on his blog, I don't get much attention.  I promote myself via Twitter and ColdFusionBloggers, but I basically don't exist on the 'net except for that.

Here's the weird thing.  At the moment, if one searches on Bing for "paralympic medal update", this blog ranks first. "paralympics medals": still above the fold @ 6th. Search on Google for "paralympics medal table", and I'm 8th (ie: on the first page).  What?

Monday 3 September 2012

Paralympic Medal Table

G'day:
This is just a quick one.  You'll've noticed I've put a medal table for the Paralympics up over on the right there.  During the Olympics I had a coupla tables there, which I have now retired and posted the final state of the table along with the code, here.

During the Olympics, I was maintaining those tables by hand: I had to run a script, generate the mark-up, edit the blog widget and paste the mark-up in, and update the timestamp.  Tedious.

Now that I have access to a CF server, I've updated the Paralympic table to run automatically.

Monday 13 August 2012

Olympic tables

G'day
Right, so that's the main Olympics over and done with, so I'll get rid of the medal tables from the right-hand-side of the blog page, and will just post them here for posterity.

Below are all the countries my readership comes from (with the top three placings for the given metric as well), with their total Olympic medal tally, adjusted for population: