Kris Tarr

Last summer, for my 33rd birthday I created a search engine for myself. I called it Accelax. The site quickly got a PageRank PR1 and later PR2 ranking with most of its pages included in the Google index. The site was successful enough, but I felt that something was missing. So I developed a new search engine, knoole.com with more features, more functional and better looking design as well as the new SEO techniques I applied to the site.

I decided to redirect all traffic to Accelax over to the new Knoole site. As Accelax died, Knoole took off. All of the pages slowly disappeared from the Google index, so when I was doing a little domain inventory, I was planning not to renew the domain. A friend recommended me to keep the domain and hold it with a blog hosted on it. I did as he suggested: I moved the site (updated the DNS settings) to another one of my servers and installed a blank WordPress blog on it with a single article talking about the old search engine that used to be running on that domain.

I completely forgot about it for a couple of months and when I was just cleaning up my sites on the server (removed unlinked, unused files, old backups, spam comments etc.) I found out that the site has a PageRank of PR3. Now this was a site that lost all of its pages in the Google index because of a simple 301 redirect on the domain. The domain lost all of its pages, its PR and registered links as well and now just came back from death, recovered itself with not much help: same domain registration info, new IP, WordPress blog with only a single post on it.

I’m seriously thinking about marrying WodPress with my search engine by building a WordPress add-on. I wonder how quickly it would get indexed and ranked on the top search engines and drive my new site free traffic…