Googling Your Web Site
Have you ever Googled yourself? You go to Google search engine
and put in your name and see how many hits come up and whether
any apply to you (assuming you're not the only person with your
name or necessarily even the most famous person with your name).
Well, you can also Google your website. Go to www.google.com and put in your
domain and suffix, for example, joeblow.com, leave off the www.
Mine is geercom.com. You can go to Google and search for that.
When the results come up, click the link that says "contain the
term". You will see something like the following in the upper
right hand corner in the blue-shaded line:
"Results 1 - 10 of about 17,000 for "geercom.com". (0.12
seconds)".
In this case, the number 17,000 is the number of pages on the
Web that are registered in Google that have published a link or
reference to that domain name.
For me, this number helps to gauge my exposure, my marketing
efforts. For you it can do the same, or simply fill up some time
if you're bored or curious.