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Old 10-20-2009, 10:11 PM   #1
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Default Finally made it to no.1 position in Google after 8 years!

My first site "Wong's Virology" has finally made it to the first result of Google for the term "virology" after 8 years. This is a very proud moment for me as I never imagined that my site would be ranked high than Wikipedia, virology.net and various virology journals for that term. It had been flipping between first and second places and so it may not last long.

There is absolutely no secret in terms of promotion. I last promoted the site 8 years ago by submitted it to the Yahoo, ODP, and Looksmart directories, and also exchanged links with 2 important virology sites.

There are few backlinks listed in Google to the homepage but what has been happening is that people have been linking to the inner pages of my site, some of which were from Wikipedia.

The site was never intended for the layman and I never intended to make money from it. But I am proud to have provided a teaching resource to thousands of undergraduate and postgraduate students worldwide. At the same time, I feel ashamed that I had hardly updated yet. It is still waiting for a section on swine flu.

I think the lesson is that if you have got good quality original content, natural backlinks would come readily and you do not really need to promote your site this much.


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Old 10-20-2009, 10:18 PM   #2
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Congratulations Derek, beating Wikipedia is quite an accomplishment. Virology is searched for 110,000 monthly. I recommend you at least setup Google AdSense right away.

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Old 10-21-2009, 02:08 AM   #3
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D'oh! When I checked, you were in 9th place!

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10th for me in the UK

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Old 10-21-2009, 02:48 AM   #5
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I am still seeing no. 1 position with www, www2, and www3 although it is much worse with co.uk and other extensions. In the past few months, I had been no. 5 to 9 and it may still be dancing at the moment.

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I am banned by Adsense for using low quality sites. In any case, this site would only have made $100 a month anyway. There is not much change in traffic, probably because the listings on the first page are so dissimilar that the surfer would visit my site anyway irrespective of its position on the first page.

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Congrats derekwong28 < hard work on content works!

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Congratulations for your hard work and patience.........keep it up

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Its no.7 here in the Philippines. still in page one. thats great

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congratulations, it's number 1 in Indonesia also.
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