I used to find it helpful to track the visitors to my blog and to see which search words they were using to find me. This exercise was quite illuminating but it's no longer so easy to do as so many people now use the personalised Google search and Google encrypt these searches: http://googleblog.blogspot.ie/2011/10/making-search-more-secure.html It's very frustrating to see that you are ranked at number 3 or number 4 for a particular keyword combination and you can no longer see what it is. You can use either Google Analytics or StatCounter to look at your visitor stats on your website or your blog: http://www.google.com/analytics/ http://statcounter.com/ I seem to get greatly inflated stats from Google Analytics. Google provide you with more detailed reports but I like the simplicity of the StatCounter interface. It's worth checking out your search engine rankings on other platforms such as Altavista, Bing, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, etc as each one returns different results. You also get different results depending on which version of Google you are using (Google.com, Google.co.uk. Google.au, etc). There's a list of country codes for Google search engines here: http://www.genealogyintime.com/GenealogyResources/Articles/genealogy_guide_t o_google_country_search_engines_page3.html If the link breaks here is a short URL: http://tinyurl.com/lryz55n One thing that does seem to help to increase your chances of showing up in search engine results is to ensure that you have a lot of content on your profile page. I've just looked at John's profile page for the Commins surname and there are currently only a few lines of text. The algorithms take into account all sorts of factors but it seems that they do look for multiple occurrences of a key word on the page. The more you write the more people are likely to find you. Best wishes Debbie Kennett Member no. 4554 Cruwys/Cruse/Cruise one-name study http://one-name.org/name_profile/cruwys http://cruwys.blogspot.co.uk https://www.familytreedna.com/public/CruwysDNA