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How to Improve SEO Ranking

April 19th, 2009 · by David Bradley >> 13 Comments

How to improve SEO ranking.

A unilateral experiment. You work it out. Wayne, did it work? You now #1? Or is it Sciencetext?

About an hour ago (on April 19) I saw Wayne’s post announcing that he was 2nd in Google for the phrase “how to improve SEO ranking”, which is apparently an important phrase to rank for. So I wrote a test post, linked to his post, and went to the Cottenham Yesteryear Road Run.

On my return, I Googled the SEO ranking phrase and gratifyingly this Sciencetext post is now ranking 3rd just below Wayne’s post. It’s possible that after a couple of spiderings of this post, Wayne’s item on using Google Webmaster Tools to help with SEO ranking will actually be nudged into the #1 slot perhaps even draggging with it this Sciencetext post. Let’s see. Give it till Wednesday and I’ll update you.

The SEO ranking lessons are intrinsic in this post, its title and the URLs of this page and the anchor text to Wayne’s post.

Twenty minutes after updating this post I now see that Sciencetext has usurped Wayne’s post and is now ranking #2, apologies Wayne…that was not deliberate.

13 responses so far ↓

  • David Bradley // Apr 19, 2009 at 9:29 am

    How to Improve SEO Ranking: How to improve SEO ranking.
    A unilateral experiment. You work it out. Wayne, did it .. http://tr.im/jaCy

  • Mr. Gunn // Apr 19, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    Nope, you’re now second and he’s third. Heh.

  • Mark Edmondson // Apr 19, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    Hi, I work in SEO in the UK so offer an IMHO – Give it a month and I bet blahblah will be number 1 – at the moment Sciencetext is benefiting from the “freshness” part of the Google algo – blahblah has many more backlinks to the specific page, even more than the number one slot.

    However #1 site(Outsource strategies) has lots of SEO related websites linking to the domain so it’ll be interesting to see if their relevance beats out blahblah’s overall number, I suspect a lot of those backlinks are “nofollow” comment links so won’t help. (20,00 vs 3000 backlinks according to yahoo)

    Weighing it up though, I reckon your anchor text weight, from a very related URL/page-content will be the deciding factor.

  • David Bradley // Apr 19, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    Yes, the novelty factor swings it for Sciencetext today…but by the end of the week/month it will likely have swapped places again with Wayne’s post and be either #3 or out of the SERPs altogether.

  • David Bradley // Apr 20, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    Okay. As of April 20, my post is #1 in Google for the phrase “how to improve SEO ranking”. How did that happen? ;-)

  • Mark Edmondson // Apr 20, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    I think all these on-topic comments will help, since its fresh content that Googlebot will come back to check.

    Its known Google also consider click through rate, so us searching for it and clicking through may also be effecting the result – a case of the observer affecting the experiment? :) .

    Perhaps we should stop commenting to get rid of some variables :)

  • David Bradley // Apr 21, 2009 at 11:11 am

    Actually…I’m not so sure about this novelty comment. I just searched some of the very old titles for Sciencetext posts and discovered that even for fairly generic key phrases those posts are still ranking on page one and mostly in the top four slots only coming further down if some of the really big guys are outranking…

  • Mark Edmondson // Apr 21, 2009 at 11:35 am

    Typically on my clients blogs I see a new blog post rank well for a week, then drop as the freshness algo becomes less pertinent, then rise again as the domain age/authority kicks in over the next few months.

  • David Bradley // Apr 21, 2009 at 11:42 am

    Okay…that’s interesting. I guess there is a bounceback period sometimes…I don’t keep a close enough eye on it with this site to know for sure.

  • Chaunna Brooke // Apr 30, 2009 at 9:45 am

    Though others may say that search engine optimization is a hard project to do, you still need to make sure that this is implemented.

  • mynameisntimportant // Apr 30, 2009 at 10:02 am

    simplicity + functionality – complexity x creativity deployed consistantly =
    A. your rear end taking the shape of a chair
    B. increased site visibilty
    C. better seo
    D. clicks not cash
    E. all of the above

  • Bhatti soyeb // May 16, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    Just give the clear and cut idea of how to improve the ranking of our site

  • David Bradley // May 16, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    Bhatti, sure thing. Drop me a line and I’ll work out a strategy for you at my standard consultancy rates.

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