June 01 2005, VAB Creative Urges

The Visual Arts Brampton website is doing well in search engine results.

For starters, a search for "arts Brampton" on major search finds VAB in top spot. A search for "Brampton arts" in Google finds a fair bit of results regarding Brampton, England; the first site about Ontario is our's. In other search engines, we place highly with that term. However, some strange and forgotten news clippings about our "new logo" in the Brampton Times newspaper are the first to appear.

A search for "Ontario College of Art and Design" (the college's name actually has an ampersand instead of the word) reveals VAB's minor page on the college in 6th place, one ahead of the actual institution. An MSN search brings us in at #1.

Note that this ranking is partially due to the college actually using an ampersand (&) instead of the word "and"; the word "and" is generally ignored in Google search queries.

This room at the top is courtesy of webmaster Nicholas Moreau's constant addition of content related to the group. He generally takes a "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" approach, finding connections in the group to all kinds of schools (Croydon School of Art), galleries (McMichael Canadian Art Collection), mediums (mezzotint), television shows (Little Bear) and movies (Peter Pan: Return to Neverland), children's books (Gummytoes) and comic strips (Life's Lighter Side), and more.

VAB would like to thank marketleap.com for the above statistics.

Search engine results are as variable as stock prices, and may fluctuate between the time of reading this, and the original June 1st search date, so don't think we're lying about this if you try these searches yourself, and find different results. Knock on wood that this news story doesn't curse us!

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