Marcia - 8:47 pm on May 16, 2002 (gmt 0)

I emailed on April 16th to a webmaster with the first few minor (and only so far) changes for a site. I checked Teoma early yesterday morning for the first time, because there were some Direct Hit entries in the stats, and there was the new title and the description taken right from the brand new noframes - there was nothing there before, and there are no meta tags yet.

That one site is updated as of yesterday, others I checked are still months old. It's Extreme Tracking with only the last few s/e referrals and it's just getting started, not having ranked for anything that gets searched for, but this is the proportion on the last 10:

Askjeeves:
Yahoo:
Altavista:
Google:
Askjeeves:
Askjeeves:
Google:
Askjeeves:
Yahoo:
Google:

Even with no Google traffic or rankings (until today, it's just gotten a daily refresh with brand new Google update, yesterday's date), that's not a bad relative number for AJ without having ranked for decent keywords. But it gave a bit of a suspicion - even though it's very miniscule and the odd search terms were irrelevant to what the site's got, all the keywords were and are 100% female searcher oriented. Guaranteed, no man would ever look for any of those keywords.

I could be wrong, but I've got a strong suspicion that it's largely women who use AskJeeves. This site is now ranking very high on a keyword that's got 75,264 Overture searches (some household items) and another that's got 2480 (a type of dolls), so it's just liable to be getting a bit now that it's been updated there with decent keywords. If I see anything half-way promising I'll try a paid page on another site that's also 100% female-oriented.

I can't figure why this was just updated and the others I checked are older than dirt. Not a clue.