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ecchi · 2014-07-05, 07:41 AM

I tend to use descriptive domain names with keywords embedded (eg http://women-in-bondage.info , http://www.science-fiction-stories.info , http://www.genuinemagicpower.com , http://sorority-initiations.com , etc.) and when I find Google sends me traffic almost as soon as I upload the site I assume that at some point in the past someone has had the same idea as me and used that domain name before me, then given up the site, let the domain slip, and I have had the same thinking as them when I have set up my site. For example http://www.detective-fiction.info is a blindingly obvious URL for a site about or containing detective fiction, what are the odds on me being the first to think this? So I assume the quick Google traffic is because they still have listings for the old site, and I am getting that residual traffic.

However, more recently I have been wondering how every single new site I think of has been thought of before. Particularly as some are a little too specific to the subject. For example I chose http://planetdominatrixbooks.com for a site publicising my series of sci-fi books about Planet Dominatrix. What are the odds on someone else having used that combination of word for their site? But my first Google hit was two days after setting up. Also some of my sites are heavily Perl driven so I'll put up the shtml pages and bugger with the scripts for days, sometimes even weeks, before the "going live". Usually the shtml pages get Google hits long before I have finished, and BEFORE I HAVE EVEN GOT A SINGLE LINK TO THE SITE anywhere on the Internet.

Now it has crossed my mind that I have the Google Toolbar on IE, and I use IE to check my sites after uploading. So I am wondering, does Google use the toolbar to find new sites to list? Am I, by having the toolbar installed, giving Google an instant "list my site please" message when I first visit my own site after uploading?

Does anyone know if this happens? Or am I just mad?

2014-07-05, 07:41 AM	#1
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Google Toolbar I tend to use descriptive domain names with keywords embedded (eg http://women-in-bondage.info , http://www.science-fiction-stories.info , http://www.genuinemagicpower.com , http://sorority-initiations.com , etc.) and when I find Google sends me traffic almost as soon as I upload the site I assume that at some point in the past someone has had the same idea as me and used that domain name before me, then given up the site, let the domain slip, and I have had the same thinking as them when I have set up my site. For example http://www.detective-fiction.info is a blindingly obvious URL for a site about or containing detective fiction, what are the odds on me being the first to think this? So I assume the quick Google traffic is because they still have listings for the old site, and I am getting that residual traffic. However, more recently I have been wondering how every single new site I think of has been thought of before. Particularly as some are a little too specific to the subject. For example I chose http://planetdominatrixbooks.com for a site publicising my series of sci-fi books about Planet Dominatrix. What are the odds on someone else having used that combination of word for their site? But my first Google hit was two days after setting up. Also some of my sites are heavily Perl driven so I'll put up the shtml pages and bugger with the scripts for days, sometimes even weeks, before the "going live". Usually the shtml pages get Google hits long before I have finished, and BEFORE I HAVE EVEN GOT A SINGLE LINK TO THE SITE anywhere on the Internet. Now it has crossed my mind that I have the Google Toolbar on IE, and I use IE to check my sites after uploading. So I am wondering, does Google use the toolbar to find new sites to list? Am I, by having the toolbar installed, giving Google an instant "list my site please" message when I first visit my own site after uploading? Does anyone know if this happens? Or am I just mad?