There Goes My Sitelinks

Oh nooooo! My Google Sitelinks seem to have disappeared! :cry…

Google History - Big Brother’s Watching?

Did you know… that Google keeps your search history? I didn’t till about a couple of days ago. As long as you have a Google account, all of your search history — including but not limited to web, images, videos, news, maps…etc. — is stored for your convenient viewing! For example, my oldest… Continue reading...

A Short-Term Blogging Goal

Here’s a short-term — and ambitious — blogging goal: to make myself appear on the 1st page of Google results for “Eastwood” and move one level up in Page Rank — from PR 4 to PR 5.

There’s a quote that goals like this: “a goal without a plan is just a dream”. I got a… Continue reading...

More Google Sitelinks

Now, I have 6 Google Site Links. Yeah! …

The Internet Fascinates Me

The internet is truly amazing. On the eve of my Organizational Behaviour midterm exam, I saw the following search queries on Google that led to my entry about UBC Exams:
comm 292 ubc midterm
comm 292 ubc midterm tips
ubc comm 292 midterm past
Something about the internet really clicks with me. Something about the ability that… Continue reading...

Interesting Changes in Traffic

So since my site redesign a couple of days back — during the Canadian Thanksgiving long-weekend — I’ve noticed a somewhat odd change in my traffic pattern:

Ranging from anywhere between one to two hundred visits per day (I know, not the most impressive — different for my exams collection though!) previously, now I get… Continue reading...

I Got Google Sitelinks!

I Googled myself — as I usually do — and saw the following:

Yes!! Google likes (more) me now!
Sitelinks are additional links Google sometimes generates from site contents in order to help users navigate your site. Google generates these sitelinks periodically from your site’s contents.

Because we generate sitelinks dynamically, this list can change from time… Continue reading...

Join the UBC Blog Squad Blogroll!

Phoebe Yu recently stated that she might
… just have to kill that LinkIn profile by the person who has [her] name then [SHE WILL BE] ON TOP FOR [HER] NAME SEARCH [on google]. WOOT.
So let’s help her and help each other out, shall we? Basically we link to all the Blog Squad bloggers… Continue reading...

Yet Again…

On a similar note to last Sunday (or, Monday morning, rather)… it is 3:00 AM, and I’m heading to bed after finishing Assignment 1 and Lab 3 of CPSC 111.

Good thing I got out of bed at 1 PM today after a week’s worth of sleep deprivation, a week’s worth of biking around campus fanatically… Continue reading...

UBC Blog Squad

I guess now I can say that I’m officially a part of the UBC Blog Squad.

Oh, on a side note: I wonder where this post would rank in Google for the search query “UBC Blogsquad”. The wonders of SEO

*Update* - As of Sept. 1, 08, this post ranks second in Google for… Continue reading...