{"id":136,"date":"2006-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-07-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T00:00:00","slug":"its-nice-to-be-popular-a-search-result-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/its-nice-to-be-popular-a-search-result-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s nice to be popular: A search result analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<\/div>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">Google seems to like us! For some reason, we&#8217;re ranked very highly for some topics that we probably shouldn&#8217;t be&#8230; Here&#8217;s a quick sampling. (All results current as of the 20th of July, 2006):<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/wwoof.htm\">Farmstay WWOOF<\/a>: #1! (We do indeed have a WWOOF Japan-approved farmstay course, but in all honesty we probably shouldn&#8217;t be number 1, you know?)<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=39&amp;catid=8\">Nippon versus Nihon<\/a>: #1!<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=42\">Fukuoka Olympics<\/a>: #1! (given which, perhaps we should remove some of the sarcasm from our post&#8230;)<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=52\">Ijou ika<\/a>: #2<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=48\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=48\">Gookon<\/a>: #4<br \/> Goukon: #5<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/index.php?catid=11\">Weird Japanese customs<\/a>: #8<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=36\">Fukuoka 2016<\/a>: #9 (yup, another Olympics one?c)<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=24\">Pottery classes Japan<\/a>: #11<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=45\">Indoor snowboarding<\/a>: #12! (We wrote a single blog entry about visiting an indoor snowboarding arena several months ago, it&#8217;s true. Hardly a googlebuster, though&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>We hadn&#8217;t really realized until recently how easy it seems to be to be highly ranked in Google for even slightly uncommon subjects. Now, if we could just figure out a way to improve our ranking for &#8220;Japanese language school&#8221;, then we&#8217;d be happy! Any webmasters out there care to help??<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| Google seems to like us! For some reason, we&#8217;re ranked very highly for some topics that we probably shouldn&#8217;t be&#8230; Here&#8217;s a quick sampling. (All results current as of the 20th of July, 2006): Farmstay WWOOF: #1! (We do indeed have a WWOOF Japan-approved farmstay course, but in all honesty we probably shouldn&#8217;t be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Genki Japanese and Culture School - It&#039;s nice to be popular: A search result analysis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"News and commentary from GenkiJACS, a Japanese language school in Fukuoka, Japan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/its-nice-to-be-popular-a-search-result-analysis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Genki Japanese and Culture School - 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