Alister Cameron // Blogologist

Changing the world. One blog(ger) at a time.

Tag: search-rankings

Linking to Wikipedia is lazy and a disservice to someone else who really deserves the link!

13 July 2007 – 11:40 am

Imagine you’re Google for a moment (I accept that’s not an easy challenge!). Your job is to do the “right” job and fairly and wisely and correctly rank web pages from all across the internet on any given search term. What a job!
So you refine, refine, refine and refine some more a funky-as “algorithm” that [...]

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How to get on Google’s front page within a few hours. No joke!

11 April 2007 – 10:40 pm

About three hours ago, I posted my Case Study on RemodelingMySpace.com. Then, looking at my stats just now I noticed someone coming to my site from a Google India search on the phrase “case study”. And I figured it had to be a glitch in the matrix, because Google a) doesn’t index that fast, as [...]

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When Google forgets about your blog

11 April 2007 – 3:09 pm

Last week, for a day or so, Google pretty much forgot about my blog. *gasp*
Keywords and keyword phrases that I ranked really well on… well, they just disappeared. And my referral traffic from Google slowed to a pathetic trickle.
I was more than a little worried. Yes, I know Google can do weird things for short [...]

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