{"id":1444,"date":"2008-10-16T13:47:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T12:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/10\/16\/the-google-monopoly\/"},"modified":"2008-10-16T13:47:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T12:47:51","slug":"the-google-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1444","title":{"rendered":"The Google monopoly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just looking at my <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Google\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a> Analytic figures for the past 30 days:-<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 457px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" title=\"Search Engine referrals Sep15 - Oct15 2008\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/search-engines-google-analytics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"252\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Search Engine referrals Sep15 - Oct15 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Looks like Google has a bit of a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Monopoly\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monopoly\">monopoly<\/a> to me!<\/p>\n<p>The real reason for looking at my <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Analytics\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Analytics\">analytics<\/a> was to see if the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepavlina.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/personal-development-for-smart-people-book-reviews\/\">link Steve Pavlina <\/a>gave me has made any difference to my readership.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 362px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" title=\"Referrals from stevepavlina.com\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/referring-site-google-analytics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"163\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Referrals from stevepavlina.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Looks like about 160+ folks wandered over to see my <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/09\/17\/truth-love-power\/\">Wordle review of Steve&#8217;s new book<\/a>. So not as many as I thought would.<\/p>\n<p>Will be interesting to see if the link from such a high PR (<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"PageRank\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PageRank\">Page Rank<\/a> not PR like <a href=\"http:\/\/elleeseymour.com\">Ellee<\/a> does) page will make any difference to my Google <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ranking\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ranking\">rankings<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/\">Geoff <\/a>which has been suffering lately \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Here is the\u00a0 corresponding data from <a href=\"http:\/\/sallyinnorfolk.com\">Sally&#8217;s<\/a> site. She gave me 7 links last month resulting in 47 visits.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1455\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/sallyinnorfolk-referrals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1455\" title=\"sallyinnorfolk-referrals\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/sallyinnorfolk-referrals-300x45.jpg\" alt=\"Referrals from SallyInNorfolk.com\" width=\"500\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/sallyinnorfolk-referrals-300x45.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/sallyinnorfolk-referrals-1024x154.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/sallyinnorfolk-referrals-768x115.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/sallyinnorfolk-referrals.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Referrals from SallyInNorfolk.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"scribefire-powered\">\n<p class=\"scribefire-powered\">Powered by ScribeFire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just looking at my Google Analytic figures for the past 30 days:- Looks like Google has a bit of a monopoly to me! The real reason for looking at my analytics was to see if the link Steve Pavlina gave me has made any difference to my readership. Looks like about 160+ folks wandered over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[56,90,193,194,297,342,343,369],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-analytics","tag-blogging","tag-google","tag-google-analytic","tag-pagerank","tag-search","tag-search-engines","tag-steve-pavlina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}