For a couple of years now, the most popular single post on this site has been the one about Pedobear. It often represented 20% of the site traffic, pretty much all as a result of search engine refers.

Now that's mostly stopped. It's typically down below 5% these days. I'm glad for that, understand. Indeed, several times I've considered going back and deleting that post. I didn't want to have the distinction of being the go-to guy for info about Pedobear. (Ye gods; is that to be my fifteen minutes of fame?)

But I wonder what happened?

It occurs to me that Google has retuned their search ranking again (something they do a lot), and my relevance just dropped considerably. Or maybe there was something topical that made a lot of people curious about Pedobear, and now it isn't topical anymore and it isn't being searched for any longer.

There's supposed to be a page somewhere on Google where you can plug in a URL and get told what Google thinks its rank is, but I'll be damned if I know where it is.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Site Stuff at 09:25 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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1 Google it?

(Funny, that first monster Haruna kills in "Kore wa zombie desu ka?" sure looked like Pedobear, which was pretty straight on considering the type of monster he was supposed to be).

Posted by: Mauser at April 14, 2011 12:39 PM (cZPoz)

2 There's enough tongue-in-cheek about that series so that it was probably a deliberate reference. That's what I thought when I first saw it, anyway.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at April 14, 2011 01:12 PM (+rSRq)

3 Sorry if somebody already emailed you, but it probably isn't coincidental that Encyclopedia Dramatica, the wiki that tried to archive all 4-chan related phenomena, and was equally offensive due to its relative permanence, was taken down and repurposed on 14 April in an attempt to monetize the webspace.  Probably a failed attempt, as she's wayyyy behind TVtropes when it comes to sanitized memearchivery. 

Posted by: Gunther at May 10, 2011 02:52 PM (pDd43)

4 That's a shame.  Encyclopedia Dramatica was pretty awful, but in a cheerfully unabashed way that made it...  Cheerfully and unabashedly awful, I guess.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 10, 2011 10:46 PM (PiXy!)

5 "There's supposed to be a page somewhere on Google where you can plug in a URL and get told what Google thinks its rank is, but I'll be damned if I know where it is."

Try googling it?

Posted by: Mauser at May 12, 2011 12:44 AM (cZPoz)

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