I was pleased to find that searching for the phrase "JoKeR's Blog" returns my blog home page as the first result. Unfortunately, if you search for "JoKeR's Blog" without the quotes so that Google is searching with those as separate terms, my home page comes up as about 7th (does one of those indented "similar results" count when determining Google rank or not?). But looking over the other results returned by these two searches, I was led to some random, useless speculation. Figuring that not everyone will be interested in such trivia, I'll put the rest of my thoughts below the fold.

I started this a few days ago and now I find that I've dropped to 10th on the first Google page. If I drop any further my own blog will not even be first page when searching for my blog's name. At least I'm still number one when searching for my blog as a phrase.

I've had some pirate friends link their blogs up to mine, so I thought that my rank would increase. Instead it seems to have fallen since the links on my friend's pages are now being listed and their popularity exceeds mine so their mention of my blog ranks higher than my own blog does. It makes a sort of sense as I think about it, but it certainly surprised me when I first noticed it.

Another oddity I noticed is that the page on BlogHop which is shown when my blog is rated has a higher Google rank than me. Has Google's spider crawled over my rating links and thereby affected my rating on BlogHop? If so, why does it use the middle rating instead of the high rating? I guess I should be glad it hasn't given the low ranking link a higher Google rank than me.

Well, I'm not sure I've anything else to add. I'm feeling a bit frazzled after a busy day yesterday and a full morning at church today. Besides I want to get this up. I've already been working on it a couple of days.