Comments on: Why blog?

By: Falafulu Fisi

Falafulu Fisi — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:54:17 +0000

I agree blogging increases the number of pages that link to a specific blog and as a consequence, the Google PageRank works very well (in other words ) to rank pages with top outward links very high. Also, the other effect is the frequency of the appearance of Rod's name being quoted in other sources but not linking to Rod's blog. Google works to rate higher pages that have higher outlinks & also frequencies of terms in pages, in which Rod seems to catch both simultaneously. I have noticed that more and more people are linking to Rod.

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Buy Lance T’s! « Lance Wiggs — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:08:06 +0000

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By: lance

lance — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:57:01 +0000

Rod D is Rod #5 from here in Australia using Google.com. Impressive.

By: Surfarama

Surfarama — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:31:54 +0000

Get Morgo

I had the very great pleasure of attending the Morgo conference Thursday/Friday last week. Morgo is “an annual recharge for executives of high growth companies”, and I was there representing Netconcepts sans our CEO, Nigel, who was held over states…

By: Not Fake Rod

Not Fake Rod — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:46:05 +0000

Well that was embaressing

By: Andrew Coy

Andrew Coy — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:46:08 +0000

Rowan, I noticed that your Google had switched to .co.nz at Morgo conference.

If you click “go to google.com” and search “Rod” still comes in 3rd or 4th, but is probably using your IP number to give NZ relevance.

I just tried an anonymiser service (some foreign IP number) and went to google.com and Rod has unfortunately disapeared down the list.

Still very impressive that Rod beats all the other Rod’s in NZ. World famous in …?

By: Glen Barnes

Glen Barnes — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:34:23 +0000

Well apparently I paint Civil war reenactments! The Google NZ vs. Google international one is interesting. I'm sure they serve up different results based on your location that is why I am more into .co.nz addresses these days as they seem to have higher rankings when searching in New Zealand.

By: Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:59:46 +0000

Ahh Rowan things were looking so good there for a minute. Your basic premise is good but now all people can see is the sad fact that Rod isn’t number one galactically.

Oh well give Xero a few more years and that might change!

By: rowan

rowan — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:26:00 +0000

Interesting. Thanks for your comments.

I’m sure Rod will be gutted to hear that. He was very excited when I showed him it working.

I tried this over the weekend at the Morgo conference on a laptop which wasn’t mine and it worked. I typed in google.com but it might well have re-directed under the covers to google.co.nz.

Independent of that, I think the point still stands: it’s great to be able to write your own Google profile.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:14:24 +0000

I too get Alex Rodriguez. My guess is that the reason Rod is No1 for you is because Google knows you frequently visits Rod’s page (by sneakily capturing your web history?). Or, it’s surruptitiously switching you over to the .co.nz results because of your IP.

By: Mike Riversdale

Mike Riversdale — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:56:10 +0000

Helps if you use google.co.nz and are sitting in NZ … think you’ll find that Rod is the #1 “Rod” in NZ for Kiwi’s.

If you go to Google.COM I got a Wikipedia page about Alex Rodriguez … curious