Note: This post is from an old Pelican blog I used to have at simonh.me, which I found on a backup drive on 2025-01-07. It's probably of no use, but reposted for posterity!
Background
I haven't done much website stuff for quite a few years. So I set myself the goal of creating a few websites to get back into the swing of things. After a bit of research, I decided to use Pelican as it's fairly easy to get going with.
I don't really have a plan for this site (yet), but I was pleasantly surprised to see my site listed on the fourth page of Google for the search term 'simonh' (after submitting it, of course). This was yesterday. Today, I'm the third result! I wondered how I'm doing for the term 'simon harrison'...
After going through fifteen(!) pages of search results, I gave up. I can only conclude, I don't exist. Boo hoo. Now, I know that certain organisations that provide results for web searches have changed things to avoid sites from appearing disproportionately high, but my name actually is, simon harrison. So why am I nowhere to be seen? It probably doesn't help that this domain doesn't have simonharrison in it. I noticed that the first four results do have the search term in the domain.
The Plan
I'm sure the many other Simon Harrison's are just chuffed to say to their friends "Google Me". Hopefully, soon, I'll be saying the same thing :)
