Why does my lousy little blog Rank number 1 on Google?
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Search "Google Places Changes."
My Blog, www.salesjumpstart.net/blog is ranked first. Has been for a week. Why? Makes no sense. I have been getting many first page Google results for 3 and 4 word keyword searches. The site or Blog just isn't that strong.
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Hi Seomoz, i'am new on seo and i have 1 blog hosted on blogspot.
Few 2 weeks i host my blog (unlock-all-phone.blogspot.com) to domain (http://unlockboot.com/).
My page rank on *blogspot is 1, but on the new domain is 0
Any solutions?
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Interesting. However, as Ryan points out you still have perhaps the best content, and only slightly below Google for "change" - nice work.
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Chnage the Title to "change" from "changes". Now ranked 2nd for Change, and 5th for changes.
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Chnage the Title to "change" from "changes". Now ranked 2nd for Change, and 5th for changes.
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Thanks Boulder! I used the browser in Natural search, so it shows what the national results are.
I just changed the title to the singular to see if that changes the ranking.
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Thanks Boulder! I used the browser in Natural search, so it shows what the national results are.
I may change the title to the singular and see if that changes the ranking. I am sure it well... right?
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Thanks Ryan... right on the Mark n this one. The site does well in Bing and Yahoo, I just think it takes them (it) a while longer to get the individual pages index. I will add and see. You are truly one of the Guru's on here.
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After checking the various SEO factors there is one glaring difference between your page and 8 of the other 9 results on the first page.
Your page is one of only two results that actually uses the phrase in your content.
The only other page to do so is the YouTube result who's total content is 3 sentences. I am willing to be if the YouTube result offered a transcript, it would outrank your page.
I checked Bing/Yahoo. Your site is indexed in both of their results but the page is not. It would be interesting to see if you submitted the page to Bing in WMT how it would ultimately rank.
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Good long authoritative sounding post and showed for me as I'm in Boulder and you are in Denver - have you tried searches from other geo proxies?
A couple other things to consider:
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Google loves fresh content - as long as the article keeps getting traffic/attention it will stay, update us in another 30 days
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You do rank for "google places changes", but are no where for "google places change" so it is all about the long tail as I'm sure you know....
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That particular page has a pagerank of 2 and I would believe a few links. Good post by the way.
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