Google results keep getting worse. I now do more searching on Yahoo! than Google. Here's another reason why.
I've been writing about the search "travel plan idea" for a long time now because of my travel blog which seems to be on Google's blacklist. Now a search for travel plan idea shows up two empty comment submission forms as results 4 and 5.
These are by far the most ridiculous search results I've ever seen. Why link directly to the comment submission form where people can't even read the blog entry they are about to comment on? It just makes no sense:
FamilyFun: Travel: Plan the Perfect Family Vacation
Great ideas and advice at Family Fun ... travel with kids, advice on planning last-minute
vacations, travel games for ... Plan your ultimate family spring break getaway, ...
familyfun.go.com/family-travel/ - 35k - 25 Feb 2005 - Cached - Similar pagesHonduras Vacation Travel - Plan the Trip
... You are in Section: 'Plan the Trip' Part 1 - Ideas for the Honduras Vacation Theme
Part 2 - Honduras Travel Guides Part 3 - When to Travel Honduras - Fairs and ...
sidewalkmystic.com/Honduras_vacation_plan_1.htm - 26k - Cached - Similar pagesTravelocity: Great Prices on Airfare, Airline Tickets, Hotels ...
... 3 days; Flexible dates. Search your choice of airports for the lowest prices.Compare
the best prices on and around your dates.Search a wide range of travel dates ...
www.travelocity.com/ - 71k - 25 Feb 2005 - Cached - Similar pagesTravel plan idea blog: Comment on Florida Travel information
Travel plan idea blog. Comments: Florida Travel information. Post a comment. Name:
Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? Yes No Comments:
www.esl-blog.com/cgi-bin/mt/nospam.cgi?entry_id=300 - 5k - Cached - Similar pagesTravel plan idea blog: Comment on Brazil
Travel plan idea blog. Comments: Brazil. Post a comment. Name: Email
Address: URL: Remember personal info? Yes No Comments:
www.esl-blog.com/cgi-bin/mt/nospam.cgi?entry_id=275 - 5k - Cached - Similar pages
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Even with my new directory other webmasters still manage to waste plenty of my time! I recently had to write this to someone who has submitted their link and had it approved by me:
The link is here - http://eslgo.com/language/Language-schools-Italian
Go look for yourself if you don't beleive me!
---------- Original Message -------------
Subject: Re: New link added
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:59:17 +0100
From: "Scuola Porta D'Oriente" <>
To: <>
we added your link in our link section
http://www.porta-doriente.com/italian%20language%20school/links.htm
but you didn't add ours in the Italian language school section and you
continue to send us e-mail confirmation as that below.
please, put a link to our website otherwise yours will be removed.
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Normally, my sites get indeed rather quicly when they are new, but www.buy-links.com seems to be taking forever. It's been in my sig links on V7N, sitepoint, and digital point. I also have several directory listings including UTN and thisisouryear as well as some reciprocal link directories.
Still, Google won't index my site. I suppose I'll try submitting to Google, but I've never had to do this before... Yahoo! has 64 pages indexed and that's probably about right... Yahoo has been outperforming Google in a few cases recently...
Sponsored by Puppies for Sale, a good place to look for puppies.
I'm not sure how many of you caught the Site Pro Newsletter in your spambox, but this latest one actually had an interesting idea:
1) I find other established sites that already have good PageRank and adequate incoming links.2) I make sure these sites add new content every day. Sites with frequently added content get visited by the Googlebot often... sometimes every day.
3) I then place an advertisement on these sites, promoting my actual web site. When the Googlebot pays these sites a visit, the ad itself (NOT my web page) is ranked in Google for the keyphrase I've used. On many occasions my ads have reached the #-1 position in Google for my targeted keyphrase, in as little as 48 hours.
Believe it or not, a handful (literally a handful) of classified ad sites fit the description to a tee. Backpage.com is one of them.
Sponsored by Autos for Sale, a good place to look for used cars.
Yhaoo! has sent over 5,000 people to my travel blog so far this month, helping to make it my most popular site! I'm up to #14 for "travel plan", #6 for "travel blog", and still #1 for "travel idea". My stupid Urchin stats aren't good at telling what yahoo! visitors are searching, but I know there must be other search terms at work here because travel blog and travel idea are not all that competitive....
Sponsored by Jobs Classifieds, a good place to look for job ads.
Some offshore spam recently came my way about paying for reciprocal links. I've heard about cheap offshore link building so I responded and got these prices:
USD 7 Per PR3 LinkFor one way links that's pretty good, but for reciprocal links? It seems too expensive.
USD 10 Per PR4 Link
USD 15 Per PR5 Link
USD 21 Per PR6 Link
A web search for "NFL Giants" turns up mostly old news articles:
NFL.com - Official Site of the National Football LeagueThe #10 site should clearly be #1 (which it used to be) and my poor Giants blog is ranked #24, 17 spots below a bowling ball site!
www.nfl.com/nfl-homeYahoo! Sports - NFL - Giants: Hand pulls groin
sports.yahoo.com/nfl/ news?slug=fanball-giantshandpullsgroin&prov=fanball&type=lgnsYahoo! Sports - NFL - Giants 20, Redskins 14
sports.yahoo.com/nfl/recap?gid=20040919019Football.com - NFL - Giants
www.football.com/nfl/giants.shtmlGoogle Directory - Sports > Football > American > NFL > Teams ...
... New York Giants News
directory.google.com/Top/Sports/Football/ American/NFL/Teams/New_York_Giants/News_and_Media/BostonHerald.com - Other NFL: Giants 28, Cowboys 24
patriots.bostonherald.com/otherNFL/ view.bg?articleid=61597&format= -BostonHerald.com - Other NFL: Giants struggling inside opponent's 20
patriots.bostonherald.com/otherNFL/ view.bg?articleid=50970&format= -Brunswick Bowling Balls. Brunswick NFL Giants (2004) Viz bowling ball.
brunswick/brunswick_nfl_giants__2004__viz.shtmlSI.com - NFL - Giants' Manning shines but Steelers hang on 33-30 ...
www.cnnsi.com/2004/football/ nfl/12/18/bc.fbn.steelers.giants.ap/The Official Site of the New York Giants - Giants.com
www.giants.com/
Here's an article that attempts (poorly) to differentiate between SEO and SEM.
They seem to be saying that SEO is more about designing a spider-friendly site and less about link building:
Generally, 90 percent of SEO relates to removing obstacles to the search engines finding and understanding the content's essence.Of course, you need a spider friendly site, but without a link building campaign there will never be good search engine rankings.
People say "content is king" and they say all kinds of crazy stuff about the importance on content and SEO. In reality, content does one thing - It makes your site worth visiting. Maybe your copy sells a product, or maybe (like this bog) you hope people like your content and come back for more. The more people who keep coming back, the more advertising revenue you're looking at.
Content has almost nothing to do with SEO. Abdillahi Abdillahi argues that fresh content "is very important" for increases in PR. I've been in this business for over 2 years now, and have never seen any evidence to support that claim.
SEO is about one thing - links. You need lots of quality links from external sites with keywords in the anchor text. Links from your own site help too.
So I'm #19 for "English as a second language" and #23 for "English as a second langauge" because of a typo on my new header. Who would have though that the mispelling would be so competitive?
Obviously I'll be fixing this one because I can't have language wrong on a language site...
http://www.seo-search-engine-ranking.com/ad_network_222.php