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Google search engine rankings (new title)

This post is based on some SEO history with ESL go.com:

1. My Yahoo and Google rankings as of April 30. I was #65 for ESL.

2. My experiment with repeating the same keyword three times in the title.

3. How Google treats keyword stuffing.

4. My comparison of two similar keywords: On April 27 I was #18 for "English as a second language" and #8 for "English second language".

Anyway, what I did was change my title again, this time to "ESL go - free English as a second language: learning & teaching ESL" because I wanted to do better for "English as a second language". It didn't really work out as planned. From #18 I went to #22. For "English second language" I went from #8 to #11. But for "ESL" I went from 65 to 59. This craziness means that I didn't learn anything from adjusting the title, possibly because Google changed its algorithm. One possibility that wouldn't surprise me is that Google didn't appreciate me keyword stuffing the title (although one site in the top ten has "ESL" in the title three times).

Posted by James Trotta at May 16, 2004 11:09 AM