How To Search
- The web is a really big place.
- It even includes pages about more than one person named “Vanessa”.
- While you don’t want to write an entire essay in your search query, the more specific you are, the better the search engines will know what you’re looking for.
- And they’ll give you the page you want, rather than this site, which despite ranking #1 for “vanessa nude”, does not contain the pictures you are looking for.
- Including the person’s last name will narrow things down a bit.
- No, I’m not going to link to the query for you.
- Or to the photos.
- Or approve all of your comments, wherein you are all helpfully sharing where to find the real deal.
- It’s rather charitable of you to want to help each other out like that though.
- Sweet, really.
This post brought to you by a recent Disney actress-related scandal, which has caused the traffic on my site to more than quadruple in the two days since the news broke. Sadly, I don’t think any of the visitors are actually looking for me. Possibly there is a lesson here about capitalizing on current events, writing about the subject matter, and monetizing in creative ways. But it’s a sunny day at the beach, so there’s really just no time.
Capitalizing on current events? I think a search engine certainly should return relevant results to just the search term ‘earthquake’ if one has just taken place. A search for ‘Fossett’ might normally lead to a biography but these days it should lead first to a page dealing with his plane being lost. I think search engines will eventually develop a current awareness of jargon such as might be used in pop culture.
There was tremendous resistance when the phone company first tried to get people to ask for a certain number rather than asking the operator to place a call to a named individual. It may be that people will have to change their search habits or else websites may have to wind up paying for alot of ‘wrong number’ traffic.
I’m not really up to date on Disney scandals, so I don’t know which Vanessa you’re talking about.
However, I remember when my family first got cable TV in the late 70s, there was a weekend only channel called something like “Escapade” which would run action and soft-core “adult” fare. One of the classics that showed up on the channel pretty often was called “Vanessa,” your basic Emmanuelle meets Story of O tale of a young innocent raised in a convent but sent out into the big bad world when somebody dies and she receives her inheritance.
You can guess the rest. There were, of course, plenty of shots of Vanessa, nude.
I used to get a plenty of hits on a few pages of a computer programming manual I wrote, thanks to people looking for an actress named Vanessa. No, really. I was writing about a… I guess nowadays you’d call it a User Interface construction kit, a UI skinning or theming system. Back then we were all Real Programmers so to use this thing, you had to use a bunch of weird C preprocessor macros and a homegrown OO inheritance model. This required explanation; this required sample code. So we had DemoUI, the Demo User Interface. Then there was this actress “known for her Occitan French features and nude pictorials” named Vanessa Demouy. Close enough. One of the pages in that computer manual mentions both the words “demoui” and “pictures”. Thus my site generated many hits and, I’m sure, much disappointment. Nowadays, thank goodness, the webmasters of the world think about typos and Hamming Distance and things like that so there are plenty of higher-ranking, less-disappointing places with demoui pictures.
FoolsGold, when I was talking about capitalizing on current events, I meant that bloggers could use opportunities like this to make better use of all the traffic than I am doing. The whole issue of search engines taking current current events into consideration in their ranking algorithms is an entirely different barrel of monkeys. (In this particular case, a search for both “vanessa” and “vanessa nude” brings up a news story about the current controversy above the web search results in Google, so they seem to be accounting for it fairly well.)
qwerty, I hadn’t even heard of this actress until I saw that she was ranking #1 for vanessa. I’m not so much with the ways of pop culture these days. I, like you, know more about soft core porn than Disney. What does this say about us? Heh.
Larry, haha.
Now imagine trying to explain all of this to two girls under 10 who know who the other Vanessa is and don’t get all the hubbub why it happened and why it’s important
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 10, 2007…
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web…….
Now see, Vanessa you don’t have to do any work at all. You just put up an affiliate link to the Vanessa DVD (safe for work) and Google helps deliver the desired results. It’s what the DVD seller wants. It’s what the affiliate program wants. It’s what the visitor wants. Why get in the way of all that desire??
Vanessa You’ve got a great point about how to search, and the issues legitimate non-porn (not that porn isn’t legitimate in certain circles) site owners face.
I’ve got another take on this whole issue. As an up and coming SEO demi-god (in my own mind at least), I routinely traverse the plethora of SEO related sites like most in our industry do. Over time, I bookmark any site I’m drawn to and gain insight from more than three times. Thus I have vanessafoxnude.com bookmarked. And now you’re on my blogroll.
So it was odd the other day when the head of our company meandered over and I had your blog home page open. I found myself, in a panic, clicking open another browser window, lest he think I was surfing a porn site, given that in big, bright white fonting there sits “Vanessa Fox. Nude.” at the top of the page.
Now, why I couldn’t just be calm and comfortable in that moment, knowing full well that he’d appreciate my desire to stay up to date by routinely surfing to the blog site of one top-notch Googler?
Or should site owners be responsible for such nonsense going on at their visitor’s offices? (Nah - personally, I LOVE your wit, and your human-ness just the way it is!)
Not surprisingly I’ve recently had a business client in the eco-friendly product arena say that she wants to find a way to incorporate words like porn, erotic, and other such surf-magnet words into her site, just so she can build traffic! I did my best to explain the benefits and the downsides to just getting a million people to your web site based on such methods.
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