i’ve been reading
for about a year now, and i think i get it.
time to start contributing!
come back in a week or two for a real site, maybe even an interesting one.
for now, here’s a script you may find useful. Run it from the
command line with two arguments, the URL of your site and a search phrase. If your site is in
the top 100 results for that phrase, it will tell you where in the results you are.
Good for egocentric or insecure weblogger types.
abe@coltrane:~$ ./googleRank.py fettig.net Abe Fettig
‘http://www.fettig.net/’ is currently ranked #1 on Google for the search phrase ‘Abe Fettig’.
abe@coltrane:~$ ./googleRank.py fettig.net Cheese
‘fettig.net’ is not currently in the top 100 results for the search phrase ‘Cheese’ on Google.
to install: download the file, rename it to googleRank.py, edit the “key=” line to have your Google
key.