Google Webmaster tools

anil@recoil.org (Anil Madhavapeddy) — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:04:00 +0000

The conversion of the Recoil web services to external FastCGI pinned our Trac installation at Melange as the source of the CPU hogging. It turned out the Google crawler was indexing the entire source tree via Trac, causing it to go ballistic.

I then stumbled on the latest cool Googlism: the Google Webmaster Tool, which lets you register your sites and displays options, diagnostics and statistics about how the Google crawler views your website. I turned down the frequency at which Google hits the Trac installation (as well as installing a suitable robots.txt file). This solved the immediate problem, but some of the search statistics were fun to check out as well.

It turns out the gallery is pretty highly ranked for image searches. My trips to Japan seems to have made it big, with popular searches including "Shibuya", "tokyo at night", and "japanese roof". My random pictures of indian buffaloes, smoggy skylines and fried ice-cream seem especially popular as well. It's a wierd old Internet eh?

The gallery has fallen a bit by the wayside in recent months. I'll update it when I get back to Cambridge!

"Google Webmaster tools" by Anil

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:46:00 +0000

Quality, not quantity I guess. Not something I believe in, from all the cameraphone shots in my gallery :)

"Google Webmaster tools" by Alastair Tse

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:16:54 +0000

At least your keywords are relevent, instead I get lots of hits for nintendo screenshots from google images. And I have only a grand total of 2. Go figure.

No Content, No Fuss: Google Webmaster tools

Google Webmaster tools

"Google Webmaster tools" by Anil

"Google Webmaster tools" by Alastair Tse