Browser History and Gender
Wow, haven’t posted in a while. I’m sure all 3 of my readers are very upset. Haha.
Anyway, I was surfing around the net today and found this cool little online application. It takes a look at your browser history and attempts to determine whether you are male or female based on the sites you frequent.
So, if you’re not one of those people who clears their browser history every 30 seconds, you might get a kick out of this:
Using Your Browser History to Determine Gender
In case you were curious, it said I have an 83% chance of being female and a 17% of being male. I’m gonna have to man up now and start visiting more manly sites I guess.
Stay safe. I’m out for now.
The Second Page SERP Theory
The bane of the whitehat SEO.
I have a site that I am trying to rank in Google for a certain keyword phrase (whitehat only) that is constantly shifting. One hour I’ll be at position 6, the next hour I’ll be 15, then 11, then 9, then 3, etc. I have done everything in my power to properly SEO my site to rank for this keyword phrase. I also have plenty of inbound links from sites in my niche with this keyword phrase as my anchor. In fact, I have far more backlinks than my competition. I just don’t get how Google decides to rank at times…
It frustrates me to no end that it won’t stay in any one position for more than a few hours at a time despite the fact I add relevant content on a regular basis and keep my link building campaign steady. But, it’s not all bad.
You see, in all this SERP bouncing, I have discovered something that I found rather interesting. It’s probably not the case in every niche, but for this niche it seems to be pretty consistent.
I get more traffic when I’m at the top of page 2 (rank 11) then I do when I’m at the bottom of page 1 (ranks 7-10). Maybe surfers browse through the first few results on page 1 and then get impatient and click over to page 2. I’m at the top so they just click it. Who knows?
So, to break it down:
- Great traffic = Rank 1 to 6
- Good traffic = Rank 11
- Okay traffic = Rank 7 to 10
- Bad traffic = 12 and higher
As you can see, this doesn’t occur when I’m in position 12, 13, etc. It ONLY happens at 11. I just find this interesting and thought I would share.
So kids, if you can’t be number 1-6, be number 11.
