ranking

Can the power of blogs remove ranking restraints?

Posted by robwatts on April 19, 2007 at 7:23 pm

I’m looking for people who would be prepared to participate in a ranking experiment, with the specific aim of determining whether blog power can unshackle domains that have sat with ranking restraints over a prolonged period of time.
The minus 31 penalty is the phenomenum whereby a site doesn’t rank for its site name, [...]

Run a local business? Get directorified!

Posted by robwatts on April 3, 2007 at 11:31 am
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John Andrews posted today about MFA (made for adsense ) sites appearing in #1 place positions in competitive SERPS (search engine results pages)
One of his commenters remarked
A lot of our customers are small, local area businesses that serve their niche market very well, but the top SERPs are dominated by directory knockoffs [...]

Google Ranking – Want to perform well? Bring on the subs.

Posted by robwatts on January 17, 2007 at 3:05 pm

If you’ve ever launched a new website, especially since 2005, then you’ll know that it can take quite some time to be found for your target kw’s and phrases within the search engines.This is a little look at Google and how it treats new domains and how trust and authority are bestowed from parent domains [...]