On Site SEO Update

Posted on January 31, 2008
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I just couldn’t resist this… After posting about On Site SEO three days ago which was, unsurprisingly all about on site SEO and only seeing the post make it onto page three yesterday, I just checked Google.com for the search term on site SEO and after all my initial concerns that we might not make it to page one, I was presented with this absolute gem that really made my day!

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That’s us, highlighted in yellow. So now I don’t have to eat my hat, for as you can plainly see, we made it to number seven on page one of google.com (the one that matters)!!!

There’s undeniable proof that on site SEO works better than many people think.

How many keyword anchored back-links does that post have, by the way?

One.

I linked to it from my PR3 Make Money site on the same day I posted it here. Unless anyone else linked to it, then that was the only back-link which sort of shows how important getting the on site SEO right really is.

Ok, we won’t be breaking out the champagne just yet, but it shows what can be done with long tail keywords. Griz mentioned this in a comment - that we could do well with this site by targeting some vaguely related long tail keywords and doing some good on site SEO to rank for them. He’s right of course and this is something I’ll be thinking about now - what other easy targeted keywords should we attack? Whatever, it will start to bring in a trickle of organic search traffic to begin with and build up to a flood!

So here’s raising my glass (ok, cup of coffee this early in the morning…) to on site SEO!

Terry Didcott
Blogging Web 2.0

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11 Responses to “On Site SEO Update”

bloggingzoom.com on January 31st, 2008 3:44 am

On Site SEO Update…

This post is a nice update on the original a few days ago that was more an exercise in using on site SEO to prove a point. That was that it is possible to get you site onto Google’s page one for a long tail keyword with less effort than may people bel…
On Site SEO Update — Seo on January 31st, 2008 4:14 am

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Terry (72 comments.) on January 31st, 2008 5:24 am

Nice not have to eat my hat! This is so cool…
Grizzly (31 comments.) on January 31st, 2008 7:27 am

Very cool indeed Terry. Don’t you love it when a plan comes together!

btw… what type of hat was it?
Terry (72 comments.) on January 31st, 2008 7:45 am

LOL! A double chocolate cream and pistachio come to mind… mmmm chocolate….
Bryan K on January 31st, 2008 11:40 pm

Terry,

When I do a search in google with “on site SEO”, the result from 1-5 return exactly same as your, but, from 6 onwards is different.

Is it due to my location is different or anything else?
Terry (72 comments.) on February 1st, 2008 2:10 am

Hi Brian,

Google search pages differ from day to day, and also from different geo locations too, so what might have been on page one yesterday can drop down a page today. That’s because other sites put up relevant content and depending on how many there are and how strongly they rank for their given keywords, they can overtake other sites in the SERPs. Often, you’ll find that the top three or four sites stay fairly static as these are the best SEO’d for their keywords.

As for the geo location thing, Google will rank a local site higher than some international ones as viewed by surfers in that locality if it chooses to rank for a particular keyword and is properly SEO’d.

Sometimes, however a high PR site can be worked hard to rank for different keywords and can eventually displace the number one site. Griz has done this on a number of occasions with his sites - using similar methods to those I used to get us onto page one.

Actually I just checked and we have moved up to number 5 position as at 08:07 CET (07:07 GMT).

Terry
Bryan K on February 1st, 2008 8:51 am

Terry,

Thanks for the explanation.

Just wondering why google make it so complicated. I can’t find your post on the 1st 10 pages over here, whereas your submission in bloggingzoom rank position 2 over here.
Terry (72 comments.) on February 2nd, 2008 12:56 pm

Google works in strange ways (now where have I heard that before…)

I’m wondering about the geo thing, as the blog is hosted by Monika in Australia, at her server which is based in the USA and I’m in Spain!

Ha! It doesn’t matter as I just looked and we have collapsed onto page 3 for on site SEO! The BZ post is on page 2, by the way so there is no justice!

Well, it was nice while it lasted - now to work on some more long tails and see what occurs…
Along the Lakeshore News (2 comments.) on February 3rd, 2008 7:30 pm

So I take it you are trying to build keyword authority for SEO, since there are no adsense ads showing for “On Site SEO”? Just wondering.

Denise
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