dickbaker - 4:49 am on Apr 29, 2008 (gmt 0)

Well, one small part of my mystery has been solved.

One phrase I ranked in the top ten for was "Acme widgets." I'm now on page two for that term. A couple of the sites that came out of nowhere to the first page are owned by a widget dealer who sold widgets to the fruitcakes who shot students recently at two college campuses.

The media has covered the owner of the site and his websites extensively, so it looks like the resulting increased traffic has propelled his two sites to the first page.

It will be interesting to see if he holds those rankings for long.

Pretty gruesome way to get rankings, though.