Spring [1] has been looking for a program that will scan the webserver log files for pages served up by search engines—obstensibly for Disturbing Search Requests. [2] She hasn't found any, so today I quickly wrote one up for her.
The odd thing I noticed though, as I watched her use the program on her site [3] and my site [4] and my blog [5] is that my blog has way more search requests than hers does.
In fact, going over the three largest sites on this server (www.springdew.com [6], www.conman.org [7] and boston.conman.org [8]) that my blog/online journal here averages about twice the search requests as the other sites. I think that has something to do with the way this site works. Google (just to pick a search engine) will have indexed the same entry about five times—once on main page [9], once for day [10], once for the month [11], once for the year (don't want to bog down the server needlessly for that example) and once for itself [12].
I'm not sure how much that affects the final ranking of a particular page since they're all intrasite links but it does have to skew the results somehow. Somehow it feels like I'm Google [13] Bombing [14] my own site with my own site.
[2] http://searchrequests.weblogs.com/
[5] https://boston.conman.org/
[8] https://boston.conman.org/
[9] https://boston.conman.org/
[13] http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Googlebombing
[14] http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Google+bombing&spell=1