Using ColdFusion I look for the referring web page that sent a viewer to my site. Then I split that traffic up into two categories: 1) Searches 2) Links. If a similar search term was seen before, I incriment it's weight. Same goes for domains of links. The result is a Referer cloud, very similar in look to a Tag Cloud:
I was worried of the new site launch, hearing stories of site falling off of search engines because of the new navigation. Pages have move. To a spider, the page disappeared. And a new page exists. Therefore any benefit of that file over time is lost. So I made some provisions to my site to overcome this obstacle. And so far so good, webveteran.com is doing so much better than it ever has - in all major search engines.
I received an interesting contact form submission one evening, by a Yahoo! talent scout.
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:53:26 -0600
Subject: Form Submission
To: jules@webveteran.com
From: <XXXXX@yahoo-inc.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”iso-8859-1″
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
——————————————————
Name: Teddi XXXXXXXX
Email: XXXXX@yahoo-inc.com
Phone: (408)XXX-XXXX
Company: Yahoo
Website: www.yahoo.com
City: Sunnyvale
State: CA
Question:
Hi Jules,
My name is Teddi XXXXXXXX and I’m a Talent Scout with Yahoo.
I would like to discuss Front End Engineering roles we have
with Yahoo. When might be a good time to speak?
Thanks,
Teddi
So... that was nice!
Later that night I spoke with Teddi on the phone. Being very good at
her job, she knew right away that my resume was formatted from a
Monster.com template. And then she gave me advice about resume writing.
I showed her some of my front end work, both of my own site and live examples of sites I’ve coded. She was very impressed.
