Saturday, February 14, 2009

Bubblegum Heaven Creates A New Lens

In January of 2009 The BOMB Squad set out on a new and exciting project. It was an attempt to correct the "Google bubblegum search" problem talked about in the last blog.

We created a "Squidoo lens" at the website Squidoo.com.

What is unusual about these websites is that they have a ranking system which ranks your lens (which is a webpage about your topic) that compares your lens against all others in the system, and gives your lens a pagerank. It also compares your lens against all others in the category that you put your lens in and gives a pagerank compared to all of them.

The object here was to, in a certain amount of time, try to see how high in the rankings our lens could be driven, as a way to compare the performance of that against the fact that Google would not rank our page.

Now I'd read that there are over 1,000,000 lenses, with more being added every day, so one million is a good number to compare your results to. The highest ranking we achieved with our lens was #545, and #14 in the sports category. Needless to say we are #1 in a search of Squidoo under the search of the word "bubblegum."

So that's not bad, huh? #545 out of over a million? Thats proportional to being less then #6 out of 10,000 websites. And that includes websites of every subject they have on that website!

A little further proof of what a shame it is Bubblegum Heaven isn't on the bubblegum search for Google!

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