B
Blast
About a month ago, I decided to learn Delphi, and one of the programs I
made was MLA Auto-Generator. After the user entered the Author's name,
Title, Publisher, etc, MLAGEN would output a correctly MLA-formatted
works cited entry.
I got a SourceForge project for this program
[http://mlagen.sourceforge.net/], and things were slow in the beginning,
like 20-30 hits per day. Then all of a sudden, there was a 250-hit spike.
I looked at my Dataplain counter, and it showed ~150 referrals from
Google, and I think ~50 from Yahoo.
Sure enough, when I typed various combinations of "MLA" "generate"
"works" "cited" "bibliography" into Google, MLA Auto-Generator was
consistently in the top 10. Then about 3 days later, my hits plummeted
back to ~50-70 per day. It turned out I wasn't on Google any more.
It was like that for about 2 weeks, then the day before yesterday, MLAGEN
was featured in LockerGnome's newsletter, and I've been getting thousands
of hits(10,000 yesterday).
I don't really expect these astronomical numbers to continue, but why did
Google take me off their index? I believe I have a very useful program
that fits a certain niche. When I Google similar products, none of them
are free, and only a week ago I was made aware of another free
bibliography generator by my friend who said he used AlltheWeb.
Does Google have something against me or what? I applied for AdSense and
was rejected. Combined with "weapons of mass destruction" and "french
military victories" [although they are very humorous], it makes me tend
to believe that Google is selective about things? Maybe it has to do with
the site's popularity, but many high-ranking sites are extremely
outdated..
made was MLA Auto-Generator. After the user entered the Author's name,
Title, Publisher, etc, MLAGEN would output a correctly MLA-formatted
works cited entry.
I got a SourceForge project for this program
[http://mlagen.sourceforge.net/], and things were slow in the beginning,
like 20-30 hits per day. Then all of a sudden, there was a 250-hit spike.
I looked at my Dataplain counter, and it showed ~150 referrals from
Google, and I think ~50 from Yahoo.
Sure enough, when I typed various combinations of "MLA" "generate"
"works" "cited" "bibliography" into Google, MLA Auto-Generator was
consistently in the top 10. Then about 3 days later, my hits plummeted
back to ~50-70 per day. It turned out I wasn't on Google any more.
It was like that for about 2 weeks, then the day before yesterday, MLAGEN
was featured in LockerGnome's newsletter, and I've been getting thousands
of hits(10,000 yesterday).
I don't really expect these astronomical numbers to continue, but why did
Google take me off their index? I believe I have a very useful program
that fits a certain niche. When I Google similar products, none of them
are free, and only a week ago I was made aware of another free
bibliography generator by my friend who said he used AlltheWeb.
Does Google have something against me or what? I applied for AdSense and
was rejected. Combined with "weapons of mass destruction" and "french
military victories" [although they are very humorous], it makes me tend
to believe that Google is selective about things? Maybe it has to do with
the site's popularity, but many high-ranking sites are extremely
outdated..