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Google Trends

I remember playing around with google trends awhile back. Penny sent me an email this evening trying to figure out what keywords would be better for a site she was working on, and I remembered about google trends. Basically the way it works is you separate the keywords you want to trend using commas. Google returns the trends (search volume) for those keywords and gives you a nice little graph.

A couple I was playing around with

boy, girl

cat, dog

big, little

I know these are irrelevant just some interesting information.

Google weirdness

I was talking with someone the other day about google people's names. I used to google my name when I first started blogging just to see what would come up. It had been a while so I decided to google my name today. I am lucky, as Damon Ledet seems to be a pretty unique name combination, so to my knowledge the results usually pertain to me. Any other "Damon Ledet"s out there? I would love to know if someone else has the same name. Back to the google weirdness, It returned 7670 results for a search of "Damon Ledet" I could not see how this was possible, I start going thought the results and at page 91 google stops returning 901-909 of 7670 results. I took a screen shot below. So really I have 909 results but for some reason the index thinks I have 7670. What is up with that?

Google screenshot

Export Categories in Blogcfc Google Sitemap

Not anything really fancy but add this little bit of code to your blogcfc googlesitemap.cfm to have google also learn about your categories. The way I figure it you can never tell google too much about your site :)

<cfset cats = application.blog.getCategories()>
<cfoutput query="cats">
<url>
<loc>#application.blog.makeCategoryLink(categoryid)#</loc>
<priority>0.3</priority>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
</cfoutput>