Getting Listed on Google

There are a number of ways to get litsed on the Google search results:
1. If you blog, use Google Blogger ~ you will show up in a blog search and maybe a web search, but that depends on the key words.
2. Use Google Page Creator, for your web site. That's a Google site, so you will show up in a Google listing
3. Use the Google add a link to insert your link to the Google data base. Add your link to dmoz regardless.
4. Hit the Suggest a link out in dmoz.
5. Use Google Site Maps to get your site listed

Google Analytics Report

One of the reports that Google Analytics provides is a graphic of a page and the percentage of what link is clicked on. So for people reaching the index page of interfacebus.com these are the odds that one of the 8 main links are visited

Part Distrubutors = 1.99%
Components = 12.61%
Equipment = 3.85%
Software = 2.42%
Standards = 8.08%
Buses = 12.06%
Design = 4.90%
Reference = 4.59%

Pushing into the Components page, I find the follow click-thru's;
Semiconductor = 26.34%
Passive = 11.29%
Mechanical = 10.0%
Alphabetic Listing = 4.37%

Pushing into the Semiconductors page [three levels deep], I list the top 5 clicks;
Memory = 7.35%
Specialized IC's = 6.95%
Programmable Logic = 5.92%
Standard Logic = 5.05%
MicroProcessor = 5.04%
FETs [General] = 4.32%

Pushing into the Memory page [four levels deep];
Flash Memory = 8.46% [I just up-dated that page]

Checking my server stats:
Memory = 790 viewed pages for April
Specialized Logic = 153 viewed pages for April
Programmable Logic = 227 viewed pages for April
Standard Logic = 263 viewed pages for April

So the drill down from index to a specific page, does not tell how often a page is visited. I could spend days looking at these reports. This is one example of people finding my index page and clicking the links to get to the page they wanted, one example. I have 1200 pages, or 1200 different ways for a person to navigate the web site. Most visits start at some page other than the index page.

Site Traffic

Its been a while since I've posted the graphic showing the site traffic to interfacebus.com
The graph shows Unique Visitors to the site. A separate person showing up, and not re-counted if they come back.
Other stats; 'Number of Visits' = 1.32 visits/visitor, 1.89 pages/visit, 14.71 Hits/Visit

The chart covers Jan. 2001 to March 2007 with the highest point being 149,184 Visits in March. The large dip in 2005 occurred when I changed the site counter to my server.

More site data my be found on the FAQ page. So the site is still growing, and while being at a Page Rank of 5 for the last 8 months [after years with a PR of 6].

Total page impression for the year: 1,152,577.

AMD Pricing

The price for AMD processors are at an all time low. I saw an article the other day indicating that AMD had reduced your prices around 40%. So I got around to checking.

I pasted their list of dual core X2 processors as of today. I omitted the FX series [high end gaming PCs] and non-dual core [budget PC] series to keep the graphic from becoming to large. I assume these prices are in lots of 1000, and I don't think the PC makers are passing on the price yet. I would think they have a inventory to draw down first.

I think it's almost time to get a new PC, with a Dual-Core AMD processor..

Google Crawl rate

Here is a graphic for how Googlebot crawls the web site for the first 4 months of the year, interfacebus.com at an average of 325 pages a day, and a maximum of 723 pages crawled in one day. The site has around 1200 total pages. Click on the image to view a larger picture. The left axis shows the number of pages crawled per day. The top display shows the first three months of 2007. There are at least 48 other spiders [robots] that visit my web site.

This next graphic shows Apr to July of 2007, which was added 8/3/07



These pictures are from Google Site Maps

Web Stats

88% of the incoming hits [to interfacebus.com] from search engines are from Google. Yahoo is the next highest at 4.4%.

79% of the visitors are using Windows XP.
48% of the visitors are using MSIE 6.0.
28 different Robots hit the site just last night. The four using the largest amount of bandwidth for the month are; Inktomi Slurp, Google Adsense, MSNBot, and Googlebot. Total bandwidth consumed by the four spiders ~ 202.98MB
The top eight referring sites are all from wikipedia.
Total number of visits so far 86,286 with 162,817 page views using a bandwidth of 5.38GB

Analytics

Just a few details for site vists for the last seven days;
77.75% New Visitor, 22.25% Returning Visitor
By source;
79.28% Google, 6.10% direct, 3.77% Yahoo, 2.63% from MSN.

For the year, the numbers are all about the same ~ with in a 1/2 %.

For the year interfacebus.com had 642,023 visits, and 1,349,995 page views.

The attached pic shows the location most of the people come from....

IPMI Bus

I added three new pages tonight to cover intel's IPMI bus.
The Intelligent Platform Management Interface has been released for a few years now, and I don't know how I've missed it. I'll cover the topic now. The three pages are just a copy of the I2C bus for now, as a place holder. But over the week end I'll gear them up and address the topic. The new pages are located at these page addresses;

IPMI
IPMB
SMIC

The pages are just place holders....

Unrelated ~ I hear AMD is reducing the price of their processors next month. Must be time for a new computer. I think I run a dual core 4800 now ~ still over an AGP interface.

I need a PCIe 16x interface, SATA 2.0, flash hard drive, Windows Vista ~ I'm two years out-of-date......

Gmail

Just in case any one missed it Google has opened Gmail up to every one. I've been using Gmail for about a year, and I really like it. They catch a lot of spam in their filter. A calendar is also available.

The Gmail address aren't so bad either ~ interfacebus.com at gmail.com

You get 2831MB of space with Gmail......

Engineering Links, Employment, and Career Development Resources

A buddy of mine started a web site to cover Career Development
Seneea.com

New grads can start by checking out this page 'Start My Career', people already working can start by checking out 'Manage My Career'

I also listed that link on my Job listing page;
http://www.interfacebus.com/Engineering_Job_Search_Listing.html

My main page is located at:
http://www.interfacebus.com/
Which includes many engineering related topics.

Highest page hits in a month

Jan 2007 had the greatest amount of unique hits; with 148633 hits.
The previous high month was march of 2006, at 143841 hits.

http://www.interfacebus.com

Update; 1/30/2010, I just came across this posting and it needs an update. As of yesterday, Jan 2010 there have been 174,409 unique visitors to the web site, or 20,000 then when this posting which was made three years ago.
Here is one of the recent posts on page data: Web Stats Increasing. [Jan 20 2010].
Of course the data changes all the time, but the data from 2007 is out of date regardless.

Hit comparison

I just posted the hits for the year to the FAQ page of http://www.interfacebus.com
I noticed that the Unique visits up to Jan 7 of 2007 were 32,028 and the Unique visits for all of 1999 were 32,100. So in just 6 and 1/2 days I received as many visits as I did for all of 1999. In eight years the site has increased 50 times over. The FAQ is listed here; http://www.interfacebus.com/Faq-interfacebus.com.html

2006 Web Stats

www.interfacebus.com ended 2006 with 1,550,092 web visits and 3,688,317 page impressions. That's an increase of 381,770 visits from what the site received in 2005.

Over the year I've added a number of new pages, many during the last 6 months, so I expect 2007 to be even better. Of course I'm always trying to enhance the existing pages.

HTML Coding

I just noticed the other day that some of my HTML coding was only working in Explorer and not Firefox.

The code "font face ="symbol"" which I use to display the symbol for Ohm, or what ever, only works with Internet Explorer. In firefox, the alpha character and not the symbol is displayed.

Any how, I'm not going to fix it, because I don't know what the fix is. Not yet sure if this is invalid code or just an issue with firefox.....

Web Site Growing in Size

The web site is growing each day. Currently http://www.interfacebus.com has 1097 individual pages. There are also 68 old or orphaned page adderesses out there. With another 92 pages to redirect people from some of the more common mis-spelled addresess. This blog contains an additional 161 pages of information. My seconday page out on Google has another 30 pages for a total of over 1400 web pages.

Web Spider

Crawed Pages

This picture shows how the Google spider [googlebot] craws www.interfacebus.com over the last three months. It appears that most pages are hit and spidered with-in one day, than are spidered again during the month. The site has about 1040 pages as determined by the cached pages on Google; “site:interfacebus.com”. Those spikes appear to reach 800 to 850 pages.

Page Views

interfacebus.com passed the 3 million page view mark today with 3,004,376 page impressions for the year.

I estimate an additional 700,000 page views for the rest of the year.

The FAQ for interfacebus.com is located here;
http://www.interfacebus.com/Faq-interfacebus.com.html

Site Visits

I missed the day, but www.interfacebus.com passed last years unique visits of 1,168,322 for a new total of 1,200,959 unique hits so far this year, with two full months to go. The page views for this year so far are 2,870,317 different pages.

The difference is unique views are from different people, page views include the number of pages those people may have seen. Or, one person may click to another page on the site to double the page views....

So 1,200,959 people came by and looked at a total of 2,870,317 pages.....

Dual PCs

Now that I have the HP computer connected to the 28" LCD TV I started to use it more.
Having the two 19" monitors in front of me and the 28" TV off to the right is working out. I don't have to switch views as much with 3 screens.

More than once I have started to type on the wrong keyboard....

CableCARD

CableCARD from what I have found so far is a 16-bit PC Card in a PCMCIA format. CableCARD was designed to replace the cable box from the cable company; any company could produce a CableCARD from the standard so you were not locked into renting from the cable company. This was a government thing, I guess the FCC.

CableCARD appears as a PCMCIA slot on the back of HDTV sets.

Any how version 1.0 came out last year from I understand and it has a few draw backs. Information only flows one-way with CableCARD. So with CableCARD you are not able to use Pay-per-view because the card only receives signals from the cable company it does not send information out to them. Seems like a lot of people are already waiting for CableCARD 2.0 to come out to address the short comings of version 1.0.

So CableCARD from a hardware view is just another implementation of the PCMCIA card. Why they used the out-dated PC Card interface escapes me.

Here is the new CableCARD listing.