*enters doing the running man dance* Oh yea ~ I’m awesome ~ I rock ~ I did it ~ uh huh ~ uh huh! I’m excited because I got a site to bump from #4 to #1. This site has never even been #1. Since it launched in January 2010 it was at #8 and at one point in April I got it to #2. Of course when the mayday update hit it, it was severally sandboxed not even showing up in the first 10 pages. In August I managed to get it to #11 where it stuck for a few weeks and then slowly crept up the past 4 weeks. I have added some ezine article submissions to it over the weekend but they are not showing up in YSE just yet and there are 2 article submissions sent out through Article Ranks so I am hoping when those reflect, they will help stabilize the position. The funny thing is that my site has a PR0 and only 7 back links. Another strange thing is that even though I can see there is a PR0 on my site, when I use SEO Quake, it says I have a PR2 in the SERPs. *shrugs* All the other sites on page 1 have a PR 2-3 with only one site that has a PR0 besides mine. My site is finally beating the .com and there was even a .us that was beating me before. I think maybe Google is catching onto the review sites that just scrape amazon reviews without having any genuine content on them. Did I mention I am happy?! haha!
The past few days I have been working on getting 1-2 unique articles written for either ezines or hubpages, then spinning them and submitting them to Article Ranks. After I did my writing for the day, I spent the remaining of my work day blog commenting through commentLuv’s homepage. James wrote a great post that reminded me of using commentLuv for do-follow backlinks. I actually found blog commenting through this method to be quite pleasant. Its a great feeling when you can improve your blog comments stickiness but acting generally interested in the topic at hand and its more encouraging to see the approved comments before yours so you know what is expected of you to get approval.
Anyhow, I just had to report in with my happy dance! Now I am off to get my work day started.
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Yes, got to love commentluv. I think this just goes to show none of us really know how Google works. I have a site with 0 backlinks showing in yse and it’s #1 in Google. Granted the competition is low but it’s ahead of Amazon and other stores with greater page rank. I’m not complaining, just saying.
Wait, I thought the Cabbage Patch was the more celebratory dance?
Good work. Hopefully that win will help keep you motivated.
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Oh I can bust out in the cabbage patch too! *does the cabbage patch*
Just curious, what does webmaster tools say about your backlinks?
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Webmaster tools is showing 16 back links to the home page. 6 of those being ezines. Funny because YSE is not showing any ezine backlinks. It just might be too early though since the ezine submissions have just been approved the past few days.
You know, YSE is really strange right now and not showing backlinks for most of my sites. There’s a whole thread about this over at the Backlinks forum (http://backlinksforum.com/showthread.php/2638-My-25-domains-lost-more-than-half-their-backlinks-last-night..-WTF), but right now I wouldn’t trust YSE for any reliable information regarding how many backlinks your site has. That said, it sounds like regardless of the # of backlinks showing, you’ve hit on a winner!
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YSE just dropped a bunch of links from their index, there was a to-do about it in Webwirenews or some other SEO rag I “read” (before hitting “delete” more often than not).
They’re funkytown, now I wish I had read the article so I can quote the source.
The good news is – Sara’s DANCING?
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Woo nice work Sara!
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Well done Sara,
As they say, hard work does pay off!
Have you noticed any major difference in earnings at all?
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So, for the record – that ROCKS. And thanks for the backlink!
So I’m guessing you’re domain age and your recent high quality linking helped? Or have you done your image magic, too?
(Which is such a hot idea!)
Can you post a how to video on how to cabbage patch, and how not to confuse it with the running man? And end it with a Kid n’ Play jumprope thing, with a super eraser-head fade goin’ on?
That would get you some mad traffic. Keyword: SEO Boogie, for the video tag, I mean.
JamestheJust on Elance recently posted..How To Determine Market Value Online
It is impossible to figure out how Google works. I have seen PR0 sites on page 1 in what would seem to be fairly competitive words. Bottom line is that it is a mystery to me but congrats are in order nonetheless.
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That’s great, I’m doing a moonwalk for you!! Didn’t know about CommentLuv – will try and thanks for tip
That’s great! It sounds like your methods are working to recover from the Mayday update.
I agree with the others as I have lost about 40%-50% of my backlinks in YSE. Not sure what is going on with them. I also heard there was a small PR update from Google but I haven’t seen any of my sites move so I am not sure if it is true or not?
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That’s awesome Sara! Congrats on the results! Is that site showing any increased visitor numbers / uniques and earnings? It’s always exciting to see your site showing up #1 in Google.
As far as the PageRank goes. Google only updates their official PageRank stats once a qtr at most. Sometimes only 3 times a year. The next major update is scheduled for late December I believe. In other words, PR isn’t a fluidly updated statistic like many other factors we use to gauge our success. The site you are using to check that is showing a PR2 may be pulling from a “projected PR” database, which there are certain Google servers you can query (and certain known parameters that are used) in order to created “projected PR”, you just have to understand that they aren’t 100% accurate or a guaranteed result.
There is no real way to gauge backlinks, PR, or any other factor with 100% certainty. The only thing you can know for sure is where you rank in Google, and you rank #1. So rock on!
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I’m jealous. One of my websites (after submitting to quite a few web directories) is not even indexed yet. And it’s been 3-4 weeks. Hopefully it’s not banned or something…
Getting indexed is easy, just simply submit your post to twitter, facebook, stumble upon , digg and delicious and I bet it will get indexed in 24 hours.
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Dear Sara,
I also working with micro niche but I have question regarding this :
1. How many days for you to become #1 ?. one week ? one month ? several month ?
2. I just calculte niche from allintitle, no other . it is correct ?
Thank you
The thing with backlinks is a lot of the links you have just don’t show up. YSE may not even have indexed some links but google has. I have checked literally hundreds of my links in Google and many of them are indexed and cached but never show up in YSE or any of the other backlink software like market samurai, SEO spyglass etc as they simply call on YSE. The bottom line, it is safe to say that there is probably a lot more links to a page than what you see in YSE, I have some No 1 positions that show only 70 or so links but have literally over 300 indexed links in Google.
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