It’s official: we now Google-own the phrase “ken sarah walker.” This was quite intentional: I’ve been trying to up our Google ranking by setting ken.walker.net to automatically redirect, and encouraging friends to link back. It will be interesting to see what happens when ken.walker.net and kennsarah.walker.net expire.

I had also tried submitting our site to the Open Directory Project and Yahoo after hearing a rumor that these directories seem to have some sway over Pagerank. However, months went by since that happened and I haven’t heard back from an editor. Humans may catagorize better than computers, but they sure are slow.

Apparently, the Christmas letter didn’t hurt our page rank either, as I used third-person throughout. It scored its own #2 spot on the Google-search.

Interestingly, though, Google still doesn’t acknowledge our site when you type “ken walker,” though ken.walker.net makes the top 10. A search on “sarah walker” only brings our site up in the top-40. Apparently, Google is sensitive to context rather than just counting the number of words on the page. A search for “sarah posegate” will bring up the Engagement Story on kennsarah.walker.net, which I’m working on porting to here, as well.