May 12, 2003
SEO Update
In an earlier posting, I carried out a couple of keyphrase searches at Google and MSN for two search engine optimisation projects - let’s see how they’re doing…
Scooterway at MSN:
- scooters walsall - #3
- scooters west midlands - #2
- malaguti scooters uk - #8
- aprilia scooters uk - #7
- go-peds uk - #15
Scooterway at Google:
- scooters walsall - #2 (whoops! THIS page is number 1!!)
- scooters west midlands - #1
- malaguti scooters uk - results p3 (whoops2! SubRosa Blog’s #5!)
- aprilia scooters uk - results p5 (Noooo! I should NOT be #8! It’s Scooterway that sell aprilia scooters!!!)
- go-peds uk - results p5 LOOK! I don’t know ANYTHING about Go-Peds - Scooterway do! If you want to buy Go-Peds in the UK, why not go there!! (Is that TOO obvious!?!?! ;)
agentBase at MSN:
- sales agents uk - #1
- commission sales agents - #1 (#1 with agent too!)
- sales agent opportunities - #3 (still behind their previous, slightly spammy version! ;)
…and finally, Google:
- sales agents uk - #2
- commission sales agents - #11 (#4 for commission sales agent)
- sales agent opportunities - #5
Generally, I think they’re doing pretty well - I think the principles that I’ve attempted to follow here (useful content, displayed in an identical way to both Search Engines and human browsers, cleaning up the page code as much as possible, utilising basic html tags for layout (header tags for headers!), and providing alternate <noframes> content without packing it full of heavy, ungrammatical, <meta keyword…> - derived crap, etc.) have proven to be the way to go!
Thanks for all the useful SEO info to:
- 1stSearchRanking.com (great newsletter!)
- Axandra (a little obsessed with selling their products, but still some good info in the newsletter)
- Search Engine Guide
- The incredibly useful Search Engine Watch
- The Tagline Newsletter
- …And finally, last (and probably most importantly, with no offence to the folks above!): Jill Whalen’s superb High Rankings newsletter. I cannot recommend this highly enough - if you want to find out how to carry out your own search engine optimisation, or maybe you’d just like to find out a little more about this so-called ‘mysterious black art’, then just get yourself over to this site!
Apologies if this seems slightly obsessive regarding search engine results - you do find yourself wondering (constantly, sometimes!) just how your SEO ‘magic’ (!) is progressing…
