SERP report - Month 3.

I don't know about you, but I'm a regular statistics addict. I check stats every time I sit down at the computer.  I just can't help myself.   So I figured that some of you might find it interesting to see what kind of traffic this new blog is getting without doing any of the usual SEO stuff, such as exchanging links, buying traffic, spamming forums for backlinks, blah blah and blah.    None of that good stuff going on here!

Ok, enough idle chatter - lets get on with the SERPS. We've gotten hits for a whopping 8 key phrases. W00t! Heading the list is one hit for the curious phrase:  " how to get scraper site spidered ".

The other 7 phrases SEO Ranks snared in it's web with one hit apiece:
- seo dynamic pages
- adsense serps
- google seo static dynamic
- age of a domain name
- get million backlinks
- seo dynamic urls
- google seo dynamic urls

And that's it for November so far. I'm going to keep track of this and post it once a month until the list is so long, I won't be listing every phrase.

Raise your hand if you think I've used this post as an excuse to repeat the phrases to strengthen the serps. :)

SEO Ranks in the sandbox

SEO Ranks has made it into the google sandbox!

I started this blog partly to experiment with pristine, white-hat SEO. I haven't given links out to anything or anyone because they asked, I've added links add value and interest to this blog.

I also haven't asked for any links - except that I have added the blog to a couple blog directories so that the search engine could find me. I haven't formally submitted this url to any search engines.

About a month after Google first spidered SEO Ranks, it appeared on the first page of results for "seo ranks" - it's own name. And not a bad phrase, if you ask me. Course I didn't get any traffic at all for "Seo Ranks", but some traffic did come in from google for some search strings that matched some content here.

As of two days ago, I do believe SEO Ranks has been firmly packed into the sandbox. It'll be interesting to see how long that lasts.

At the time of writing, Yahoo has SEO Ranks at #7, and MSN #1 and #2 on a search for this blog's name, SEO Ranks.

Yahoo! loving link spam - still.

I keep track of highly competitive phrases on the search engine. Every day I check out the serps for holy grail phrases in areas where webmasters are fierce and ruthless in their quest for serps.

Yahoo's serps seemed pretty reasonable until today. I checked out a couple phrases and found a huge shift in some areas - and a lot of crap in the results. Redirected sites and link spammed sites almost took over the top 20 in some areas.

I checked the links for a couple of these garbage sites and found them to have over 15K backlinks, according to yahoo - some of them were to internal pages! Over 15K links to an internal page (and a page which had no original content to speak of).

Yahoo, you suck. Just a couple months after you got rid of batches of these sites, they've been replaced. Yahoo needs to take a page out of Google's book and give incoming links a thorough going over. Maybe then Yahoo's search engines will give searchers some relevent results.

Reciprocal Linking 101

The jagger update is done, leaving some sites in its dust and elevating other sites to new highs. Something that has become very clear is google's refined link credibility: Quality of the pages who are linking to you are of the utmost importance if you want to do well with google.

- Avoid site-wide links and links that the search engines can easily identify as paid links. i.e. links under titles such as "Sponsored Links".
- Check the pr of the page a link partner would put your link on - consider exchanging links only if there is some pr on the actual link page.
- Link to good neighborhoods in your category - there are many tools to help you do this, such as Hub Finder.

What to do with all that recip linking spam in your inbox? Here is a very good article to help webmasters select link partners, and delete the crap: Link requests that should be deleted.