Comments on: Number 1 Ranking In Google. Is Your Site Good Enough?

By: wigwam advertising agency

wigwam advertising agency — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:00:23 +0000

good stuff. Anyone interested in seo should be a regular visitor to this site.

By: Ryan the New Zealand Website Designer

Ryan the New Zealand Website Designer — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:47:41 +0000

“The number 1 reason a lot of sites get number 1 places in Google listings areâ€¦.
â€¦they are good enough. It really is that simple.”

Corny but true. Great post I learnt some new things.

By: MrFlicks

MrFlicks — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:04:28 +0000

Could’nt agree more with original post nor the last in most all

That’s why we are here ON Google Page 1 or 2 quality text/copy content – forward thinking and excellent inuition – an insight into human behaviour and a flair for knowing what ITt is that IS the happy balance between writing for search engines and for human surfers to.

Engaging the both – Insight

By: Shaun Anderson

Shaun Anderson — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:48:26 +0000

Michael, that’s a great idea. And I think that’s exactly what seo is. A part of it at least. Adding good quality content, or rather encouraging the addition of good quality, relevant, content to any site (your own, a client’s, or in this case another site altogether, is one of the single most important aspects in developing a successful website, and of course, generating that odd link or two

By: Michael SEO

Michael SEO — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:41:01 +0000

I have an SEO site, and the question was asked – why would anyone link to it? Interesting blog articles are certain one part of what makes a site linkable, like this article. The question is, how do you have the same on clients websites? How do you encourage the owner to post random musings about their industry and then market that to their peers? At least with SEO, we are inherently internet savy.

I advised a new hotel client to email each of their clients the day after they stayed to make a blog post about their experience, and to make a blog post on their own blogs linking to the hotel. The Hotel will also have a video booth that gets fed to itube… Intelligent use of social media. Will be interesting to see how it works out once implemented, and when they replace their flash based site… http://www.hotelso.co.nz

By: BlogOxide

BlogOxide — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:26:27 +0000

Rightly said, knowing about DONTs sometimes work more than that of the knowledge of DOs.

By: James

James — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:40:07 +0000

Chilli, I would guess that depends on the type of blog and what the blogger does to promote there website. As mentioned by imjuk aslong as you have the ping settings working you should be indexed pretty fast. Most new posts I make on 2 newish blogs get indexed within 24 hours. Google seems extremely fast at indexing at the moment, I have seen some of my reddit submissions be indexed in minutes recently.

By: chilli

chilli — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:08:37 +0000

iÂ´d like to know what these “minor changes” are. but i donÂ´t know if so many blogs appear in a normal google search at all…

By: geri

geri — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:31:42 +0000

So often it is a few minor changes that make a huge difference

By: Shaun Anderson

Shaun Anderson — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:27:04 +0000

IMJUK – I heard that one too. I think the guy got $40,000 dollars as a fee to get a site indexed by Google (years ago) that had previously resisted all efforts by the client to get listed.

In the end, it was a few lines of code in the Robots.txt file that was actually preventing Google from indexing the site and once fixed the site was, sure enough, indexed by Google.

Not a bad return on 2 minutes work. An expensive lesson for the client (who probably still doesn’t know) but who in the end hopefully made the money back through sales from his new google friendly website.

By: imjuk

imjuk — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:52:45 +0000

Goyin – If you’re having trouble getting your blog indexed in Google make sure you’re pinging the right places. In the default setting you’ll be using pingomatic which should be fine. You’re in technorati etc so you should be getting spidered. If you increase your ping list you may be able to get mroe links for each post increasing the rate at which your site gets spidered.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:23:41 +0000

Number 1 Ranking In Google is not enough if your site doesn’t have good content. Yes I agree. Better sites content tends to keep rankings than a sites having a poor content. Better content plus good Link building Strategy and good On-page optimisation, I think these will help in making a better sites.

By: DolphinPromotions

DolphinPromotions — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:20:30 +0000

Yes I totally agree, I use Digital Point a fair bit and some of the sites people moan about not ranking are just awful. Ok so Google doesn’t penalise you for having a rubbish design but it has to effect the number of people wanting to view your site and also linking to your site. I don’t really do the whole reciprocal linking thing much but I personally would never link to a site that looked bad or generally had poor content.

By: goyin

goyin — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:18:24 +0000

i hope you’re right, i just finally found a focus for my blog and so i changed the title tags, and they barely got indexed by google, but no change in rankings yet. ho hum.

By: imjuk

imjuk — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:29:35 +0000

Sometimes all you have to do on some sites is change some title tags and alter some content and away the site flies – best I’ve ever heard about was someone who fixed a robots file and walked out the door SEO cheque in hand and the site ranked like no ones business. Generally all a site needs is a bit of TLC and a bit of gentle push in a certain direction to start it going. Once you get your site kicked off well it should keep going. A solid foundation and your website will have the best chance of survival