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Quotes – Famous Quotes – Cool Quotes

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Suicide’s Note
by Langston Hughes

The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.

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Greatest Quotes of All Time – Great Quotes – Movie Quotes

Greatest Quotes of All Time – Great Quotes – Movie Quotes

AFI – The American Film Institute issued a list of the Top 100 Movie Quotes of all time.  This Greatest Quotes list was topped by this one:

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn
- GONE WITH THE WIND – 1939
There is a story here: AFI’s Greatest Quotes of All Time and the entire list can be seen here: Great Movie Quotes
The rest of the top five greatest quotes from films include:

2 I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.
- GODFATHER, THE 1972

3 You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
- ON THE WATERFRONT 1954
4 Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
- WIZARD OF OZ, THE 1939
5 Here’s looking at you, kid.
- CASABLANCA 1942

Quotes – Famous Quotes

Quotes – Famous Quotes

Blog Boost Status – Report on Blog Boost XXI

The target for this week was My Famous Quotes Blog Quotes – Famous Quotes

I put up a special post with a bit of history explaining how and why it came about called “Bill Austin Quotes“

I was glad to see that some of the boosters found that item and made good use of it.

There was an increase in traffic due to the boost but it is difficult to quantify.

The percentage could easily be lost in normal daily changes because the site is ramping up in traffic rather quickly 

The numbers look like this:

Traffic in Page Views (GMT)

Monday July 24th       = 4,091
Tuesday July 25th      = 4,905
Wednesday July 26th = 4,912
Thursday July 27th     = 5,084
Friday July 28th         = 4,727
Page Views During the Prior Week:

Monday         = 2875
Tuesday        = 3064
Wednesday   = 3471
Thursday       = 4597
Friday           = 3478

* Technorati Rank increased nicely.

Prior to Blog Boost:
Technorati Rank: 144,068 (65 Sites from 23 blogs) or

After Blog Boost:
Technorati Rank: 92,784 (101 links from 34 blogs)
* On the official “Blog of the Day site for WordPress.com, http://botd.wordpress.com/ the site was around #11 or #12 Tuesday and only #27 by Friday.  This is mostly due to a couple of important news items which caused a huge increase in traffic to some wordpress.com blogs which wrote about those topics.

* Impact on Links and Site pages indexed by search engines. 

This was quite positive for all three search engines.

Prior to Blog Boost:
Google Links 17
Pages Included in Google Index via Site command: 537

After Blog Boost:
Google Links 17
Pages Included in Google Index via Site command: 600

Prior to Blog Boost:
Yahoo Links 65/1740  (listed/counted)
Pages Included in Yahoo Index via Site command: 32

After Blog Boost:
Yahoo Links 88/2710  (listed/counted)
Pages Included in Yahoo Index via Site command: 214

Prior to Blog Boost:
MSN Links 3814
Pages Included in MSN Index via Site command: 859

After Blog Boost:
MSN Links 4473
Pages Included in MSN Index via Site command: 1119

* Impact on search rankings - these are short term results and in the longer term this should change in a positive way.

MSN Search Engine Ranking Prior to Blog Boost:
#9 on MSN for quotes
#11 on MSN for famous quotes

MSN Search Engine Ranking After Blog Boost:
gone on MSN for quotes
gone on MSN for famous quotes

These may be due to filters which were triggered in the US only and they may fix this over time as they realize how silly it makes tthem look.  In Malaysia and India the site ranks #4 for Quotes on MSN and in South Africa it is #8.

Google Search Engine Ranking Before Blog Boost:#95 on Google for quotes
Google Search Engine Ranking After Blog Boost: #119 on Google for quotes

Google Search Engine Ranking Before Blog Boost:#16 on Google for famous quotes
Google Search Engine Ranking After Blog Boost: #18 on Google for famous quotes

* Truth Laid Bear (TLB) Ranking was 14571 and did not change
TLB Shows only one inbound link
TLB Shows only two outbound links
[Something is rotten in TLB]
* Nine members registered their blog boost this week.

Jennifer Irving at http://blog.execadminsolutions.com/archives/quotes-to-motivate-you
Anita Cohen-Williams at http://searchguru.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/useless-quotes/
Ariane Benefit at http://www.neatliving.net/blog/2006/07/the_happiness_p.html
Jessica Duquette at http://www.its-not-about-your-stuff.com/2006/07/george_berbard_.html
Des Walsh at http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/blog/_archives/2006/7/27/2167021.html
James Durbin at http://durbinmedia.com/brandstorming/2006/07/famous-quotes.asp
Jim Belshaw at http://belshaw.blogspot.com/2006/07/finding-right-quote-aside.html
Erin Banister at http://www.erinbanister.com/2006/07/27/george-w-bush-education-quote/
Susan Reynolds at http://susanreynolds.blogs.com/artist/2006/07/what_makes_a_bl.html

Thank you to all who participated.  There were some interesting comments and I will try to re-visit and comment on your posts as well.  We are living out of suitcases while the floors are torn up.

Thank you,

Bill Austin / Kathee Austin / Thelly Reahm
http://quotes.wordpress.com/