{"id":59,"date":"2006-08-24T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2006-08-24T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T07:54:00","slug":"new-and-amazing-stuff-google-and-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/new-and-amazing-stuff-google-and-and\/","title":{"rendered":"New and Amazing Stuff- Google and And"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3385\/179\/1600\/google.0.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3385\/179\/400\/google.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Google Search for New and Amazing Stuff\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This blog has been a bit lean as I&#8217;m concentrating on developing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeparking.co.uk\/\">Home Parking<\/a> website (not yet live) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/portent.org\/\">New Amazing Stuff<\/a> which has just had it&#8217;s 50th blog entry since August 9th. <\/p>\n<p>Just out of curiosity I did a google search for &#8220;new and amazing stuff&#8221; (without quotes) and found portent in 4th place out of 117 million. Google pointed out that the and was superfluous so I searched for &#8220;new amazing stuff&#8221; again without quotes. Portent was now down to 26th place and the other results were different as well.<\/p>\n<p>So my conclusion. And does make a difference, and you are best to avoid having it in any phrases that you are optimising for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has been a bit lean as I&#8217;m concentrating on developing the Home Parking website (not yet live) and the New Amazing Stuff which has just had it&#8217;s 50th blog entry since August 9th. Just out of curiosity I did a google search for &#8220;new and amazing stuff&#8221; (without quotes) and found portent in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}