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August 24, 2006

Google as a Top Five List

Conduct a search on five seo excuses and the top five five results in Google are listed excuses. Pretty cute SEO trick by this guy. I assume all it takes is a bit of linkage pointing for that anchor text to make this happen, but kudos for thinking the concept up.

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posted rustybrick in Google Optimization at August 24, 2006 8:46 AM Comments (8)

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You really should have given the guy a link to his blog. The googlecache.com

 

Posted by Jon at August 24, 2006 10:20

Clever, with those subdomains; kudos to him for getting them in that order :-)

 

Posted by Robzilla at August 24, 2006 11:10

Clever - but I would never use them to help me use SEO to become more competitive. I guess I am old fashioned, but I wouldn't trust anyone who spells competitive wrong (five times in one paragraph-at least he's consistent) to help me. In fact, when you Google "competetive", Google returns: "Did you mean: competitive ?"

 

Posted by Leon Schwartz at August 24, 2006 16:54

Hey Dad,

SEO's target those misspelled keywords some time - or at least they say they do after the fact. ;-)

 

Posted by Barry Schwartz at August 24, 2006 17:08

Posted by somebody at August 24, 2006 21:34

Interestingly enough, non of the sub domains have any PageRank at all. Only the Virante (to which you are redirected when you visit ajaxle.com) site has currently a 4. No backward links to the subs either. Only the sub sites are links to eachother. I am just a beginner on the SEO front, but I thought is would be more complicated to get ranked high in the search engines

 

Posted by Marie-Louise at August 27, 2006 12:00

I think it's a pretty entertaining tactic. The question is: does this scale to more competitive keywords? Is it a plausible strategy to aim for not only the first ranking, but the first five rankings? Or the first 10?

 

Posted by SEO Montreal at September 6, 2006 23:33

Y'know, I actually find this pretty damn clever. In terms of return on effort invested, it's dubious but I give him props for planting a very neat gimmick in the Google results (an "Easter egg" of sorts!). But points off for the misspelling.

 

Posted by Name Here at October 20, 2006 17:18

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