{"id":8,"date":"2004-06-23T00:43:50","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T06:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/?p=8"},"modified":"2004-06-23T00:43:50","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T06:43:50","slug":"here-comes-the-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2004\/06\/23\/here-comes-the-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For quite a while, I found that Google wasn&#8217;t indexing my site properly.  From the logs, it appeared that the Googlebot would come by, read my robots.txt, and my index.html, and then nothing else.  I couldn&#8217;t figure out why, my robots.txt was properly formatted as far as I could tell.<\/p>\n<p>Did some reading, and found out that Google has created a lovely little Catch-22: your site won&#8217;t be indexed unless somebody already in the index links to it.  So, who exactly is going to link to my site, if nobody knows it&#8217;s there?  I&#8217;m not asking for a great PageRank or anything, but c&#8217;mon!  At least put me in the index!<\/p>\n<p>I told my coworker Matthias about this at a BBQ on Saturday.  Next day, he linked to my site.  I was already mentioned on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentex.net\/~mwandel\/\">his page<\/a>, because of our potato cannon work.  Now he knows that I have a site of my own.<\/p>\n<p>Matthias&#8217; site is fairly popular, having been Slashdotted a few times already.  I have already seen an increase in the traffic coming to my own site.  Plus I&#8217;m finally in the Google index, so searches like &#8220;Craigmatron&#8221; will find me.<\/p>\n<p>So, thanks Matt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For quite a while, I found that Google wasn&#8217;t indexing my site properly. From the logs, it appeared that the Googlebot would come by, read my robots.txt, and my index.html, and then nothing else. I couldn&#8217;t figure out why, my robots.txt was properly formatted as far as I could tell. Did some reading, and found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}