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A new mystery to unravel
I'm used to seeing the daily visit from the blogdex spider now, but how pray tell did I get 45 referrals from blogdex in the past 24 hours?
According to the link info, my main page has never broken the top 20,000 on their indexes. It would take a lot of very patient readers to travel that low in the index listings.
Has anyone seen a specific story URL of mine on the top indexes there recently? This is really mystifying.
Either it's a bug in blogdex, a bug in antville, or something I said recently is becoming quite popular. And how likely is that?
Aha! A touch of Google enlightenment!
I figured it out!
Remember when I added the "googlebait" content in the upper left corner, because Google was doing a very poor job of summarizing my site? And then it automagically fixed itself, to my utter bewilderment?
It turns out that my obsessing about this annoyance coincided exactly with my admittance to the dmoz directory, which is also the Google directory.
So if you, like me, have problems with Google's inability to properly describe your site, I highly recommend that you submit your site to dmoz with a quality description.
It will do wonders for the quality of your site summary, at least when people are searching for it by name.
Other searches will still show snippets that demonstrate the occurrence of whatever keywords they are seeking, which is all well and good.
I think I'll leave the googlebait there anyway, though. I'm kind of getting to like it.
