It’s been a while since my last post.  What can I say?  I’ve been busy building the future of the internet… or at least trying.  I’ve got some pretty great stuff in the works - some that I can’t reveal yet, because it would invalidate the data I’m compiling, and some that I won’t reveal, because it could increase competition in the market I’m attempting to dominate.

Anyway, here are a few quick search-related tidbits that I’ve found interesting since my last post:

• An amazing 9 out of the top 13 terms that this blog was ranked for in the past week included the term “sex” in them.  Thankfully, most related to the actual topic discussed in my previous post Sex Sells - But Does It Sell This?  Some, however, were not.  Favorite non-related search term: sexy sex.  Indeed, that is the best kind of sex and certainly worth searching for, no?
• I need to proof-read more effectively, as I have found that I’m ranking (quite well) for a lot of typos… not exactly something to be insanely proud of… but it’s better than not ranking at all.
•  Oddly enough - YouTube doesn’t rank number 1 in Google for video or online video.  That strikes me as very bizarre.  Seriously, if a site ever deserved to rank number 1 for a term, it would be YouTube and “online video.”  Note that I wasn’t actually conducting a search for online video, nor was I attempting to rank for the term - it just occurred to me one day to check to see if YouTube held the top spot for the search term.
• I’ve been getting a TON of error 999 responses from Yahoo when doing backlink queries lately.  That company is falling apart.

I’m in the process of doing a few experiments right now to track traffic generation as well as SERP impact.  Final data is still a ways off, but I think we’ll see some interesting findings.  Also, on perfectly new domains, I’m seeing Google indexing (partial) in as little as 4 hours.