..So with only 2 days to go in seocontest2008, our big push is just coming online now.
If Google's caching timings are on our side we may breach top 30 or even top 20 in the next day or so, or our secret weapon could:
a) not even be strong enough to reach the top 30
b) come online properly, but too late for the deadline.
We will know this by watching to see if we surge next week. This will be interesting for us to assess the power of the techniques we're using in amongst what is some massive linkbuilding amongst the winners.
We hear tales of certain participants diverting "another 7000" forum links to certain posts. We would estimate our total link count into our post at less than 300, maybe less than 200.
But theyre good links, and from relatively few sites. The other thing that is interesting is that we are consistent in our performance, Top 40for Google, top 30 for Yahoo, and top 4o on MSN. All the engines seem to like our power-linking strategies fairly equally.
seocontest2008 has been very interesting for us, and we would like to wish all the real participants the best of luck, the mighty Benji, and the powerful French team Sphere look to be the ultimate winner / runners up, once they decide just who has the most seo power.
SEO Ibiza Long Range Recon Fighting Patrol..
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Superior SEO Counter Attack..
Reports are coming in from HQ that there has been a surprise counter offensive by the spamlords on Mount Superior SEO Services and the high ground has been recaptured. We honestly didnt expect to take it so swiftly originally so some kind of resistance was inevitable at some point.
This is kind of unfortunate thoough because we already sent the Bolivian Cavalry off with orders not to return until they've captured "Small Business SEO" & SEO by Design.
See this is the problem with trying to wage a campaign on so many fronts.. We fight this glorious campaign against the evil of the mass produced multiple spamworded domain names on behalf of ethical lazy SEOs everywhere.
don't worry, you just sit there, we'll do it...
This is kind of unfortunate thoough because we already sent the Bolivian Cavalry off with orders not to return until they've captured "Small Business SEO" & SEO by Design.
See this is the problem with trying to wage a campaign on so many fronts.. We fight this glorious campaign against the evil of the mass produced multiple spamworded domain names on behalf of ethical lazy SEOs everywhere.
don't worry, you just sit there, we'll do it...
Small Business SEO by Design
We have using Small Business SEO by Design principles on this one, and "incubating" a domain for a client whilst their main site is being built in Flash and are happy to annouce that the main Flash site is now live.
Check - Paintball Lounge Party - www.paintballloungeparty.com
The difference between this approach and if we hadn't already been working on the site's optimisation in the meantime, is that they now get to launch their new brand new site properly, with it already at a strongish looking Google No1 for their first target terms ** Paintball + Ibiza ** rather than spend the rest of the summer working to try to get these rankings, when the website should be actually working for them bringing in customers and returning it's investment, not struggling back on the 3rd page of Google.
We are also just breaching front page for Activities in Ibiza and should also be front page for Things to do in Ibiza within the next 6 weeks or so, just in time for summer proper.
Check - Paintball Lounge Party - www.paintballloungeparty.com
The difference between this approach and if we hadn't already been working on the site's optimisation in the meantime, is that they now get to launch their new brand new site properly, with it already at a strongish looking Google No1 for their first target terms ** Paintball + Ibiza ** rather than spend the rest of the summer working to try to get these rankings, when the website should be actually working for them bringing in customers and returning it's investment, not struggling back on the 3rd page of Google.
We are also just breaching front page for Activities in Ibiza and should also be front page for Things to do in Ibiza within the next 6 weeks or so, just in time for summer proper.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Music Business Sites
A good friend of ours Katie Brockhurst, who along with Tom Brown was the voice of the massively successful (iTunes download chart #2) "We Love" @ Space Ibiza Podcasts 2007 has finally taken the plunge, shaken off the corporate shackles and is going it alone with her new Urban Bookings & DJ Management Agency Kdotonline.com
This is a determined and very capable young lady and we have every confidence in her being a huge success. She sat down and wrote her new business website Kdot herself on her new Mac with no prior understanding of web technology, and it looks nice in a media / mac sort of way and works very well.
We're now going to give her the little helping hand, and little tweaks and tuning that the site needs to make it perform like she now needs it to.
best of luck Katie ;) xx
This is a determined and very capable young lady and we have every confidence in her being a huge success. She sat down and wrote her new business website Kdot herself on her new Mac with no prior understanding of web technology, and it looks nice in a media / mac sort of way and works very well.
We're now going to give her the little helping hand, and little tweaks and tuning that the site needs to make it perform like she now needs it to.
best of luck Katie ;) xx
Sunday, March 23, 2008
seocontest2008 lolz
Hahaha one tap with the big hammer and its +7 places to #32 in a day for our seocontest2008 post at the time of looking. :)
Er, shall we do that again? - its a good job we didnt start out like this, but then we weren't intending to try and and win, only to test some seo theories in the midst of stiff pressure, and I think we're showing that these ideas work, even if theyre not enough to beat 30 french spammers and the formidable Benji - (btw good effort dude, have one on us.. seocontest2008 ;)
Others need the $1000 more, especially the french boys who stand earn $33 each from it from 2 months hard linkspamming :) ..now wheres that hammer gone, lets hit it again and have a mad rush at the top 10 ....
mwuhahahahahah :)
Er, shall we do that again? - its a good job we didnt start out like this, but then we weren't intending to try and and win, only to test some seo theories in the midst of stiff pressure, and I think we're showing that these ideas work, even if theyre not enough to beat 30 french spammers and the formidable Benji - (btw good effort dude, have one on us.. seocontest2008 ;)
Others need the $1000 more, especially the french boys who stand earn $33 each from it from 2 months hard linkspamming :) ..now wheres that hammer gone, lets hit it again and have a mad rush at the top 10 ....
mwuhahahahahah :)
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Link-Spinner - Lateral -Thinking - Linking
We've known and been chatting with these guys for a little while now www.linkspinner.org the home of "lateral thinking linking" and have joined them as power members. There's some interesting ideas floating about inside.
It is all 100% ethical techniques but they're keeping the ideas inside for members only at present because it does seem there is somewhat of a "market advantage" when you start thinking like this.
We would also like to welcome our newest member Aries SEO onboard and look forward to working together and sharing the power, er - I mean knowledge sorry ... ;)
It is all 100% ethical techniques but they're keeping the ideas inside for members only at present because it does seem there is somewhat of a "market advantage" when you start thinking like this.
We would also like to welcome our newest member Aries SEO onboard and look forward to working together and sharing the power, er - I mean knowledge sorry ... ;)
seocontest2008 update
Ok, so approximately one week to go in seocontest2008 and the upwards pressure towards the top must be intense now, we dont forsee being able to climb much further now using only the "soft" internal combat arts we have been working with up until this point.
We have climbed slightly from #41-43 to #39 over the last day, and we believe this is still demonstrating the effectiveness of the techniques we are using, it's just that the hammer we are hitting with is not man enough for the job.
Hence now it's time for some Yang, the Big Hammer, the things we would have done at the beginning if we had been competing and not in testing /experimentation mode.
At least top 30 would be nice. we will see.
We have climbed slightly from #41-43 to #39 over the last day, and we believe this is still demonstrating the effectiveness of the techniques we are using, it's just that the hammer we are hitting with is not man enough for the job.
Hence now it's time for some Yang, the Big Hammer, the things we would have done at the beginning if we had been competing and not in testing /experimentation mode.
At least top 30 would be nice. we will see.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Small Business SEO & SEO by Design
On this day of days it has been decreed by the SEO-Jihad War Council's Tribe of Elders that further Holy War shall be waged on the terms
** Business SEO ** , ** Small Business SEO ** and ** SEO by Design **
It is only fair to give due warning to innocent bystanders to allow evacuation, anyone in the vicinity at the time of the attack will be treated as hostile.
The codeword is SEO War Room. This is not a drill, there will be no further warnings.
** Business SEO ** , ** Small Business SEO ** and ** SEO by Design **
It is only fair to give due warning to innocent bystanders to allow evacuation, anyone in the vicinity at the time of the attack will be treated as hostile.
The codeword is SEO War Room. This is not a drill, there will be no further warnings.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Superior SEO (Web Design) Update :)
We are pleased to announce that after a brief but decisive struggle the Superior SEO crown has now fallen & the pretenders have been driven from the stronghold into exile on the spamlands and into hiding in the hills of Superior SEO Services. ..we will have to regroup, R&R etc before we launch the final assault.
Our shock troops reported back that in the end though, it all happened much quicker than expected and was a bit of a letdown resistance-wise. Our victorious crusader page was first launched on the 9th March and took the title late on the 17th 8 days later, most of that time was actually spent in De-Index-amo Bay Interrogation Facility undergoing Google's caching procedures.
Our shock troops reported back that in the end though, it all happened much quicker than expected and was a bit of a letdown resistance-wise. Our victorious crusader page was first launched on the 9th March and took the title late on the 17th 8 days later, most of that time was actually spent in De-Index-amo Bay Interrogation Facility undergoing Google's caching procedures.
We may fluctuate a little yet, as the reinforcements gotten waylaid somewhere and have still not actually shown up yet, but when they do, as the link strength we still have yet to come online with this campaign is the rough equivalent of Gandolph and crew riding in from the East at Dawn, it's possibly better that the Spam King surrendered and fled now than later.
We are quietly confident we should now be around here for a while to come now, and will work hard at taking good care of all their lands & women, we promise :)
Edit 02-07-09Who would have thought that it would take this long for anyone to come and try to challenge this awesome trophy phrase? ..well, it did, but finally "superior SEO" has sprung alive again (well, sort of, a limp-wristed text drop challenge) on a couple of outlying longtails..
superior seo design, and superior seo web design.In all seriousness this ranking must be contested because the seo comedian currently spamming Google's index with superior seo web design articles, blogs and social media nonsense must not be allowed to promote this nonsense under this banner.
seocontest2008 update
It appears some people are taking this all rather seriously
There's a French brotherhood of 30 on the case in 2nd or 3rd place who stand to win $33 each prize money from their efforts, who have suffered a major hacking attempt if they are to be believed. This is all getting a bit serious for our liking.
There's some pozitiven . com scraper type thing (not linking to that) feeding every seocontest2008 tag on the web into itself and appearing in almost every other seo related term out there and some serious co-ordinated linking campaigns going on with some of them claiming 29k+ links showing on Yahoo. lol !
This makes the fact that we're still low 40's - #41-#43 from just a comparatively few links and a rolling system of constantly increasing the link pressure on the post from within our own site all the more interesting to us, as by comparison to the kind of effort others are putting in, we have only an very insignificant number of external links focused at the seocontest2008 post on this blog.
This is indicating to us that what we are doing likely does work, but its just not enough against the massive link drive everyone else is on. We think that there is a good liklihood that if we were doing this with a PR5 powerbase instead of our current PR3, that we would be in top 5 position slot. And because we have been working on powering our own site up and routing that efficiently through the site at the seocontest2008 post, tractor beam style, that by the next time the next one comes along, we just might be :)
There's a French brotherhood of 30 on the case in 2nd or 3rd place who stand to win $33 each prize money from their efforts, who have suffered a major hacking attempt if they are to be believed. This is all getting a bit serious for our liking.
There's some pozitiven . com scraper type thing (not linking to that) feeding every seocontest2008 tag on the web into itself and appearing in almost every other seo related term out there and some serious co-ordinated linking campaigns going on with some of them claiming 29k+ links showing on Yahoo. lol !
This makes the fact that we're still low 40's - #41-#43 from just a comparatively few
This is indicating to us that what we are doing likely does work, but its just not enough against the massive link drive everyone else is on. We think that there is a good liklihood that if we were doing this with a PR5 powerbase instead of our current PR3, that we would be in top 5 position slot. And because we have been working on powering our own site up and routing that efficiently through the site at the seocontest2008 post, tractor beam style, that by the next time the next one comes along, we just might be :)
Whilst checking the index just now the pages indexed by Google for the term seocontest2008 just changed from 1.3million to 610k and the french "brotherhood of 30" dropped from a top 5 position to #45, 2 positions below us.
Maybe the hackers got them after all. They should be busy trying to avenge the Google-bombing of "French Military Victories" really though, rather than messing about in some silly contest for $33 each ..further update no, sorry different post, sphere are still potentially on for the cash :)
Anyway we have some more mounting link pressure due online over the next few days and so may rise a little yet, hold steady some more, or maybe fall.. :) ...we shall see
..and oh yeah Oi hackers !!! NO!!!! ..c'mon there's no need for that now is there? play nicely.
Maybe the hackers got them after all. They should be busy trying to avenge the Google-bombing of "French Military Victories" really though, rather than messing about in some silly contest for $33 each ..further update no, sorry different post, sphere are still potentially on for the cash :)
Anyway we have some more mounting link pressure due online over the next few days and so may rise a little yet, hold steady some more, or maybe fall.. :) ...we shall see
..and oh yeah Oi hackers !!! NO!!!! ..c'mon there's no need for that now is there? play nicely.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
SEO by Design - What do you rank for? Our Full List
Ok, so we do a lot of shouting about the various terms we're targeting but well, we're a new business and at this point it's all about making a noise really. It might look like bragging and bluster and shouting about easy terms etc, but:
a) we prefer to think of it as aggressive marketing :) and
b) well, as we approach the 5 month old stage with the site it's now approaching completion and is present in what we feel is a good broad range of terms from our business and geo-related queries, through our special themed "publicity terms" and is now starting to make solid appearances in general 2 word SEO Queries, including Onsite SEO
We would like it borne in mind our SEO Demonstration Website has been built in our spare time whilst working on a fast expanding clientbase, constantly. We have mentioned the new "superior SEO" terms on the new blog HERE and now present the full list of terms targeted and obtained in the last 5 months for inspection.
a) we prefer to think of it as aggressive marketing :) and
b) well, as we approach the 5 month old stage with the site it's now approaching completion and is present in what we feel is a good broad range of terms from our business and geo-related queries, through our special themed "publicity terms" and is now starting to make solid appearances in general 2 word SEO Queries, including Onsite SEO
We would like it borne in mind our SEO Demonstration Website has been built in our spare time whilst working on a fast expanding clientbase, constantly. We have mentioned the new "superior SEO" terms on the new blog HERE and now present the full list of terms targeted and obtained in the last 5 months for inspection.
We should be representing pretty well across all these phrases.
- SEO in Ibiza
- SEO Consultant Ibiza
- Search engine optimisation in Ibiza
- Search engine optimisation demonstration website
- Microsoft's Free Websites
- SEO demonstration website
- SEO demonstration
- SEO Design Ibiza
- SEO Web Design Ibiza
- Small business Ibiza
- Small businesses Ibiza
- Small business Services Ibiza
- Business Services Ibiza
- Business Ibiza
- Businesses in Ibiza
- Business website Ibiza
- Domination in Ibiza :)
- Ibiza Domination - just for a laugh
- Search engine domination tactics
- Search engine domination in Ibiza
- SEO domination in Ibiza
- SEO SERP domination
- SERPS domination
- SEO domination tactics
- SERP domination tactics
NEW TERMS
- SEO experiments (Experimental Page new on 13 Feb 2008)
- SEO theories (Experimental Page new on 13 Feb 2008)
- seocontest2008 - fading fast. we may yet have an ace though, we shall see..
- SEO Engine Room - Added 15.02.2008
- SEO Power - Added 15.02.2008
- Superior SEO - Added 09.03.2008
- SEO Domination - Added 09.03.2008 - Google #1 overnight ;)
- Superior Small Business SEO
- Superior Small Business
- Superior SEO Business
- Superior Business SEO
- Superior SEO Consultants
- Superior SEO Consultancy
- Superior SEO Packages
- Superior Onsite SEO
- Superior Onsite SEO Packages
- Domination by Superior SEO
- Superior SEO Demo / Demonstration / Domination
- Demonstrate Superior SEO
- Superior Search Engine Combat Tactics
- Search Engine Combat Tactics
- SEO Combat Tactics
Saturday, March 15, 2008
SEOIbiza Web Design Ibiza
Our site has been constantly evolving since it's launch mid Nov 07, and after further modifications the last day or so we are nearly happy with it now.
We've just added a page run by a PHP script to scroll the last 10 (newblog) seoibiza blog post titles for ease of navigation and made navigation and colour/style changes.
But we are now fast approaching the point where we will simply not have time to work on our own site anymore and it will just have to fend for itself out there for a while. Hopefully we have built a winner and it will survive and prosper :)
** I should mention that we've been specifically neglecting one important aspect of the site on purpose up until this point, holding it back as a final trump card, seeing just how far it would go without using the obvious, and that is up until today our site has gotten this far with identical banner <> tags on every single page.
they are now all finely honed, and we think it will be like hitting the nitoous oxide in a dragster ;)
More on web design Ibiza & our SEO Design Services here
We've just added a page run by a PHP script to scroll the last 10 (newblog) seoibiza blog post titles for ease of navigation and made navigation and colour/style changes.
But we are now fast approaching the point where we will simply not have time to work on our own site anymore and it will just have to fend for itself out there for a while. Hopefully we have built a winner and it will survive and prosper :)
** I should mention that we've been specifically neglecting one important aspect of the site on purpose up until this point, holding it back as a final trump card, seeing just how far it would go without using the obvious, and that is up until today our site has gotten this far with identical banner <> tags on every single page.
they are now all finely honed, and we think it will be like hitting the nitoous oxide in a dragster ;)
More on web design Ibiza & our SEO Design Services here
Onsite SEO Packages & SEO Design
We've mentioned recently on the blog about two of our site's pages that have risen to Google Top 10 for their targeted phrases "naturally" ie. with no external links pointed at them whatsoever except from this blog.
This is an ongoing case study in what we term SEO by Design
SEO Packages and Onsite SEO are the pages in question, and whilst we really didnt expect these pages to be so competitive in the 2 word general SEO Phrases without any help, we did however intend that these and all the pages on the site, interlink and cross over in subject matter enough to cover phrase variations.
SEO Content should not only consider the pages themselves, but how they inter-relate to each other and crossover in so as to compliment each other, but not replicate.
When you get this right, you invariably find that by the time both the different pages are strong enough to compete on their own terms in their 2 word phrase, that the 3 word combination of the two different phrases, ie. onsite seo packages will be doing better still.
This is evident with these searches for us at present:
SEO Packages #80 ish (now, having been hovering around #10 - #20 for several weeks)
Onsite SEO #5 - #8
Onsite SEO Packages - #3 - #5
This approach is actually the reverse of the method by which we usually target keyphrases, i.e in the example used above, to obtain strength in SEO we would target Onsite SEO / SEO Packages giving us a natural overlap for SEO. Obviously this is just an example and we dont expect to be ranking for SEO anytime soon ;)
This is SEO Design in action, or as we have decided to brand our website, SEO by Design..
ps, please do try the Google search for SEO by Design ;)
This is an ongoing case study in what we term SEO by Design
SEO Packages and Onsite SEO are the pages in question, and whilst we really didnt expect these pages to be so competitive in the 2 word general SEO Phrases without any help, we did however intend that these and all the pages on the site, interlink and cross over in subject matter enough to cover phrase variations.
SEO Content should not only consider the pages themselves, but how they inter-relate to each other and crossover in so as to compliment each other, but not replicate.
When you get this right, you invariably find that by the time both the different pages are strong enough to compete on their own terms in their 2 word phrase, that the 3 word combination of the two different phrases, ie. onsite seo packages will be doing better still.
This is evident with these searches for us at present:
SEO Packages #80 ish (now, having been hovering around #10 - #20 for several weeks)
Onsite SEO #5 - #8
Onsite SEO Packages - #3 - #5
This approach is actually the reverse of the method by which we usually target keyphrases, i.e in the example used above, to obtain strength in SEO we would target Onsite SEO / SEO Packages giving us a natural overlap for SEO. Obviously this is just an example and we dont expect to be ranking for SEO anytime soon ;)
This is SEO Design in action, or as we have decided to brand our website, SEO by Design..
ps, please do try the Google search for SEO by Design ;)
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
hmm..
Do you ever wonder about the ever expanding rate of the internet? All these automated websites out there picking up other site's content and building themselves into a new site using it?
we stumbled across this (link nofollowed as who knows who may own the domain and site) today it's like an automated cyberstalker following you (or any keyword at all in fact) around the net.
Some people (and keywords) are happier than others about this kind of stuff, suffice to say some of my friends would be considering moving because of it..
but anyway it has 50k pages indexed with G and no PR. and maybe looks a bit MFA or maybe "black cat" to us so we're leaving well alone.
edit link was removed 11-04-08 after the page changed are we were left inadvertantly linking to some dodgy looking GOOGLE ADSENSE site.
we stumbled across this (link nofollowed as who knows who may own the domain and site) today it's like an automated cyberstalker following you (or any keyword at all in fact) around the net.
Some people (and keywords) are happier than others about this kind of stuff, suffice to say some of my friends would be considering moving because of it..
but anyway it has 50k pages indexed with G and no PR. and maybe looks a bit MFA or maybe "black cat" to us so we're leaving well alone.
edit link was removed 11-04-08 after the page changed are we were left inadvertantly linking to some dodgy looking GOOGLE ADSENSE site.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Yoga in Ibiza
A lot of our clients would prefer to do their own linkbulding to save money, and to learn themselves what the magic fairydust entails, and we are more than happy to go along with that due to our workloads.
We explain the best way to achieve what they need to do, set them up and send them on their way, with any help they need on the end of our livechat faciilty always available to them.
One such is our current "Yoga in Ibiza" search client and friend who is a published and accomplished yoga writer Jax Lysycia author of Yoga & Pilates for healthy Living who actually has a new book out soon, watch out for it all you Yogis I know are reading this ;)
So we've gone along with our own Business Blogging Advice, set her up a starter blog HERE and pointed her in the direction of a few of the best Yoga Forums we could find.
We explain the best way to achieve what they need to do, set them up and send them on their way, with any help they need on the end of our livechat faciilty always available to them.
One such is our current "Yoga in Ibiza" search client and friend who is a published and accomplished yoga writer Jax Lysycia author of Yoga & Pilates for healthy Living who actually has a new book out soon, watch out for it all you Yogis I know are reading this ;)
So we've gone along with our own Business Blogging Advice, set her up a starter blog HERE and pointed her in the direction of a few of the best Yoga Forums we could find.
Most small business searches do not generally need huge amounts of links to their sites to rank effectively, they need intelligent targeted and preferably relevant links, and using this approach is usually always enough unless you are up against heavyweight opposition or other SEO companies and their clients.
We look forward to helping Jax raise her own profile enormously over the internet in the next few months :)
Sunday, March 9, 2008
SEO Domination
Announcing the targeting of new SEO related terms.
We hereby declare war on the legions of spammy samey lamey domains blocking up the righteous SEO related search terms of Superior SEO & SEO Domination
We will march henceforth on their captors and wage war on their homelands until justice is done, and the enemy lays vanquished before us...
Friday, March 7, 2008
SEO Ibiza have Moved..
..Not from Ibiza of course, but the time has come to bring the blog in house for the greater control and benefits offered by Wordpress.
But we like Blogger and it has served us well, and well, who knows. We may change our mind and come back again (again) or hand this over to the apprentice, or maybe just use it as a source of secondary ramblings, so for the moment it gets to stay.
We're @ http://blog.seoibiza.com
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But we like Blogger and it has served us well, and well, who knows. We may change our mind and come back again (again) or hand this over to the apprentice, or maybe just use it as a source of secondary ramblings, so for the moment it gets to stay.
We're @ http://blog.seoibiza.com
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
SEO Power
Has anybody else noticed randomness from Google's indexing procedures recently? we have a new page SEO Power first cached on 27.02 that we are expecting great things from.
the last 2 such pages are SEO Experiments & SEO Engine Room ..which have both gone first page for those terms at the time of writing, within 2 weeks of initial indexing.
The SEO Power page is a bit frustrating because it is an seo experiment again, with one "strong" link focused on our seocontest2008 experimental post. Some of the best SEO minds we know from our travels dont think this approach works. Some including us, do.
To recap, we are not taking part in this competition but are using the stiff and ever increasing competition to test some cutting edge SEO Theories in, and it would seem to us at this point that this page alone dropping in and out of the index is responsible for a position variation of about 10-12 places in the seocontest2008 search.
Just as soon as it comes live properly and stays that way we will hopefully see more clearly.
the last 2 such pages are SEO Experiments & SEO Engine Room ..which have both gone first page for those terms at the time of writing, within 2 weeks of initial indexing.
The SEO Power page is a bit frustrating because it is an seo experiment again, with one "strong" link focused on our seocontest2008 experimental post. Some of the best SEO minds we know from our travels dont think this approach works. Some including us, do.
To recap, we are not taking part in this competition but are using the stiff and ever increasing competition to test some cutting edge SEO Theories in, and it would seem to us at this point that this page alone dropping in and out of the index is responsible for a position variation of about 10-12 places in the seocontest2008 search.
Just as soon as it comes live properly and stays that way we will hopefully see more clearly.
SEO Demonstration by SEO Ibiza - Google Yahoo & MS Live Number Ones ;)
If you scroll down 4 posts or click this SEO Demonstration by SEO Ibiza
..you will see where our Blog finally took the Google #1 position for SEO Demonstration a few days ago with the main site 2 positions below. At the time we said that this would reverse in a couple of days, it basically had to because of linking and PR considerations. This morning it did, screenshot below.
..you will see where our Blog finally took the Google #1 position for SEO Demonstration a few days ago with the main site 2 positions below. At the time we said that this would reverse in a couple of days, it basically had to because of linking and PR considerations. This morning it did, screenshot below.
If the blog manages to get above Youtube too, we will have shown that although PR is still a major factor in rankings without any doubt, it can be overcome in time by better content and relevance.
None of this should be news to anybody who knows what they're doing. And just to top it off nicely it's a hat-trick, a One two three across Google, Windows Live & Yahoo, with #1 positions across the board for SEO Demonstration, from zero to dominance in 15 weeks ;)
SEO demonstration on Windows Live
SEO demonstration on Yahoo
None of this should be news to anybody who knows what they're doing. And just to top it off nicely it's a hat-trick, a One two three across Google, Windows Live & Yahoo, with #1 positions across the board for SEO Demonstration, from zero to dominance in 15 weeks ;)
SEO demonstration on Windows Live
SEO demonstration on Yahoo
Ethics in SEO Competition 2008
By the title of this post we dont mean the seocontest2008 thing we are messing about with at the moment, but we mean the competition we face in the SEO arena from other SEO Companies operating in our marketplace.
We are now approaching full dominance (for the moment anyway) in almost all of our localised business target terms, except one. See SEO Demonstration for the list.
In this particular phrase however, we are amused on an almost daily basis lately by the antics of one of our competitors who despite being an extremely good web design company with a string of great client websites out there, and an excellent link profile inbound from those websites giving them a PR5 main domain, are up to all sorts of funny antics.
Most would likely not see this, but as we work across .com, .co.uk and .es we see a lot of different search results, and this company seem to have an identical domain for each engine and geographical location.
With the resources they obviously have at their disposal, they should really be able to wipe the floor with us across the board, so quite why they feel the need to have about 6 or 7 identical style homepages on different domains randomly and unpredictably cropping up in different searches is beyond us.
These floater domains are all identical to a casual user, with the companies logo in the middle of the page linking into their main PR5 site. What is strange about them though is that if you scroll down you come across a load of normally "hidden" text below the browser line that looks as though someone just copied and pasted a load of unformatted text on the bottom of the page and forgot about it. I mean really, it looks absolute rubbish.
Now we understand what theyre doing, basically they've bought a load of different domains, some with keywords, some not, and are testing different onsite SEO strategies, because on closer inspection the text on each is just slightly different, but all looks like it's been written using the Adwords keyword tool, definitely not for users. Google guidelines breach No1.
The point is that as no effort has been made to make the text look reasonable to a viewer, one really has to assume that they aren't intending to have the viewer see it? ..a reasonable assumption? Google guideline breach No 2.
So, an SEO Company, with six (or more) identical spammy domains with user-hidden content floating about (Google Guidelines breach No 3) - all of which link straight back to the main site?
This is SEO from 5 years ago lads, this is not creating the best site for the user you can, using content. The accessibility aproach may stand up if this was one domain, but as its 6 or more?
One would think it hardly engenders much confidence to their clients that they wouldn't spam on their behalf in an attempt to get results, thereby risking clients site and business, as you they blatently do it with their own? Obviously their clients wouldnt know this because they dont spend all their time seeing it as we do. ..Come on lads you can do better than that.
The funny thing is that as a 15 week old start up site, with a PRzero, frankly we should have had no chance against a years old established PR5 SEO companies site, if it were built correctly with SEO and content always written for users in mind, as ours was.
So to be totally dominant in all but one of our target searches leaving them to flounder in the land of random domain names and hidden text trying to compete is a source of almost constant amusement.
The ironic thing is that in Ibiza the standard customer profile does even not know what search engine optimisation is to search for it until it is explained to them, and as with everything in Ibiza, it's all word of mouth, and being here actually chatting to people.
"You have to be in it to win it.."
We are expanding very quickly and picking up clients on a daily basis at the moment, through word of mouth and customer referrals, when 2 weeks in when they see their own sites leaping into action they tell all their friends.
Our website is a long term project, and we have very much larger intended scope for it than just search engine optimisation in ibiza
We were never really expecting to be able to establish local presence quite so quickly, but rather it has come because of the way we're looking at the bigger picture which is something our friends cant really be accused of.
Possibly another case of SEO by Web Designers in Ibiza ? who knows..
We are now approaching full dominance (for the moment anyway) in almost all of our localised business target terms, except one. See SEO Demonstration for the list.
In this particular phrase however, we are amused on an almost daily basis lately by the antics of one of our competitors who despite being an extremely good web design company with a string of great client websites out there, and an excellent link profile inbound from those websites giving them a PR5 main domain, are up to all sorts of funny antics.
Most would likely not see this, but as we work across .com, .co.uk and .es we see a lot of different search results, and this company seem to have an identical domain for each engine and geographical location.
With the resources they obviously have at their disposal, they should really be able to wipe the floor with us across the board, so quite why they feel the need to have about 6 or 7 identical style homepages on different domains randomly and unpredictably cropping up in different searches is beyond us.
These floater domains are all identical to a casual user, with the companies logo in the middle of the page linking into their main PR5 site. What is strange about them though is that if you scroll down you come across a load of normally "hidden" text below the browser line that looks as though someone just copied and pasted a load of unformatted text on the bottom of the page and forgot about it. I mean really, it looks absolute rubbish.
Now we understand what theyre doing, basically they've bought a load of different domains, some with keywords, some not, and are testing different onsite SEO strategies, because on closer inspection the text on each is just slightly different, but all looks like it's been written using the Adwords keyword tool, definitely not for users. Google guidelines breach No1.
The point is that as no effort has been made to make the text look reasonable to a viewer, one really has to assume that they aren't intending to have the viewer see it? ..a reasonable assumption? Google guideline breach No 2.
So, an SEO Company, with six (or more) identical spammy domains with user-hidden content floating about (Google Guidelines breach No 3) - all of which link straight back to the main site?
This is SEO from 5 years ago lads, this is not creating the best site for the user you can, using content. The accessibility aproach may stand up if this was one domain, but as its 6 or more?
One would think it hardly engenders much confidence to their clients that they wouldn't spam on their behalf in an attempt to get results, thereby risking clients site and business, as you they blatently do it with their own? Obviously their clients wouldnt know this because they dont spend all their time seeing it as we do. ..Come on lads you can do better than that.
The funny thing is that as a 15 week old start up site, with a PRzero, frankly we should have had no chance against a years old established PR5 SEO companies site, if it were built correctly with SEO and content always written for users in mind, as ours was.
So to be totally dominant in all but one of our target searches leaving them to flounder in the land of random domain names and hidden text trying to compete is a source of almost constant amusement.
The ironic thing is that in Ibiza the standard customer profile does even not know what search engine optimisation is to search for it until it is explained to them, and as with everything in Ibiza, it's all word of mouth, and being here actually chatting to people.
"You have to be in it to win it.."
We are expanding very quickly and picking up clients on a daily basis at the moment, through word of mouth and customer referrals, when 2 weeks in when they see their own sites leaping into action they tell all their friends.
Our website is a long term project, and we have very much larger intended scope for it than just search engine optimisation in ibiza
We were never really expecting to be able to establish local presence quite so quickly, but rather it has come because of the way we're looking at the bigger picture which is something our friends cant really be accused of.
Possibly another case of SEO by Web Designers in Ibiza ? who knows..
Sunday, March 2, 2008
SEO for Google, and the rest will follow?
At SEO Ibiza we could reasonably be accused of concentrating exclusively on Google, and in a way thats kind of true, however there are a couple of good reasons for this.
- Google has 65-70% of the internet's search traffic. If you had to choose just one, you should choose Google, without a moment's hesitation.
- Google is generally the toughest Search engine to optimise effectively for.
- We very consistently find that by the time we are Google top 5, we are dominant in Yahoo, MSN Windows Live and not quite so consistently, Ask.
Search Engine Optimisation in Ibiza search on Yahoo
Search Engine Optimization in Ibiza search on MSN Windows Live
And finally Ask. We actually dont rate for the term Search Engine Optimisation in Ibiza at all on Ask, at least not back to the 5th Page and couldnt be bothered to look any further back than that.
However we are so strongly #1 everywhere for "SEO in Ibiza" now that we then tried that on Ask just to confirm we were still indexed. Now Ask's algorithym is said by some to be better than Google's but we have our doubts.
The search SEO in Ibiza on Ask curently recommends 3 of our current clients for SEO in Ibiza from only our link on the bottom of their page, and 2 of our clients actually rank higher than our nearest competitor, and the third is right underneath them.
A different kind of SERP Domination in action there, - rank all your client sites too for your search terms with your link on the bottom :)
However we are so strongly #1 everywhere for "SEO in Ibiza" now that we then tried that on Ask just to confirm we were still indexed. Now Ask's algorithym is said by some to be better than Google's but we have our doubts.
The search SEO in Ibiza on Ask curently recommends 3 of our current clients for SEO in Ibiza from only our link on the bottom of their page, and 2 of our clients actually rank higher than our nearest competitor, and the third is right underneath them.
A different kind of SERP Domination in action there, - rank all your client sites too for your search terms with your link on the bottom :)
this is a pretty typical of how effectively optimising for Google generally pays off across the board for us.
Google Geo Targeted SEO
Because we are based in Ibiza and are primarily (initially) targeting Ibiza and Spain with our services it is more important for us to be #1 on Google.es than Google.co.uk or even Google.com.
Hence we set Google"s Webmaster Controls geo-targeting to Spain a few weeks back after leaving it not set during the initial setup. The difference this makes is that it seems to give a slight boost on your chosen index, but at the expense of a slight drop on the others.
Hence we set Google"s Webmaster Controls geo-targeting to Spain a few weeks back after leaving it not set during the initial setup. The difference this makes is that it seems to give a slight boost on your chosen index, but at the expense of a slight drop on the others.
This can also be seen on our SEO demonstration searches currently, - compare the Google.es results with the screenshot on the previous SEO Demonstration Blog post.
And bizarrely enough, whilst the other indexes remain slightly harder to crack, this is exactly how we were ideally intending this search result should eventually look.
SEO Demonstration by SEO Ibiza
As you may or may not know we have themed our own new website (15 weeks old today) as an ongoing SEO Demonstration Website.
On the page (link above) is a full list of the terms we have been targeting, please do try the many search terms and let us know how we're doing, we focus on Google.com, .co.uk and .es
As well as our local business related searches and the Geo related SEO searches we have also gone after a variety of SEO related search terms, including ** SEO Demonstration Website ** and ** SEO Demonstration **
On the page (link above) is a full list of the terms we have been targeting, please do try the many search terms and let us know how we're doing, we focus on Google.com, .co.uk and .es
As well as our local business related searches and the Geo related SEO searches we have also gone after a variety of SEO related search terms, including ** SEO Demonstration Website ** and ** SEO Demonstration **
We conquered the term SEO Demonstration Website some weeks ago now, and are now approaching full-on SERP Domination (another of our terms, check it out ;) for SEO Demonstration Website across Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Live. The latest Google screenshot is below.
We thought that the screenshot showing the correct pages with dropdowns from both the site and the blog, talking about our whole SEO Demonstration Search project, and our thoughts on Pagerank's role in the matter wasn't a bad little SEO Demonstration in itself? :) ..what do you reckon?
As far as the tougher ** SEO Demonstration ** Searches go, our website www.seoibiza.com is at the time of looking #1 on both Yahoo & MSN Live for this but Google is showing the complexity of their algorithym and / or their preference for Blogs over static sites for fresh results by ranking this Blog Google #1 for the term, and our (higher PR website) is 3 positions lower, with other also higher PR competitors below us. This would seem to back up our assertion that if you build well optimised pages, you only need worry about Google, by the time youre doing OK there, the rest of the Engines will have taken care of themselves.
We do seem to have succeeded in overpowering (at least briefly) Youtube's vastly superior PR6 using content relevance, but for how long is anyone's guess. But this is also a bit unusual in that the blog links to the static website using this term a fair bit, but nowhere, have we linked into the Blog for this term whatsoever.
Some may say this is a clear demonstration of the lack of influence of Pagerank in rankings, but we disagree. We think that as the blog fresh content boost fades, things will level out to a more Pagerank orientated layout.
We are still conducting further tests with "Pagerank optimisation" along these lines on our SEO Experiments page and search (try that one too) although the page has been dropping in and out of the index for no apparent reason, (maybe its just to hot for them to handle without gloves ;) so if it's nowhere, when you look, tray again in a day or two, we're sure it'll be back to stay shortly.
We are also now starting a new phase of testing looking at Image search optimisation. Keep tuned for more developments
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