Is the Google Algorithm Insane? You Be the Judge.
- SEO |
So, I was doing a bit of research for a post I did last year on tennis elbow. I was trying to decide if it was woth spreading a little SEO love to bring it up to where it actually got a visitor or two (Just kidding, it does get one or two.)
Looking at which websites ranked for my tennis elbow related keyword, I was surprised to find the U.S. Tennis Association's own page on the subject down on page 11. Presumably they are a greater authority on a tennis-related subject than the mini blogs I discovered populating the SERPs 6 or 8 pages above that.
On the first page there are results from webmd.com, about.com, a Squidoo lens selling a CB product, and whaddoo you know, another page from that same mini blog, coincidentally selling the same CB product as the Squidoo page. It shows that thin sites and affiliate focused web 2.0 properties can still escape Google's wrath.
On another Google note, I was also checking one of my rarely posted on blogs today. It is in a subfolder of my main domain for that niche. Imagine my shock when I found that while the blog was at position #2 on page 2 for the chosen keyword, the main site was at position #1.
What's the big deal?
The main site is a website template that still contains mostly placeholders, such as
"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipi scing elit. Mauris urna urna, varius et, interdum a, tincidunt quis, libero. Aenean sit"
and 16 broken image links.
Really, Google?
Looking at which websites ranked for my tennis elbow related keyword, I was surprised to find the U.S. Tennis Association's own page on the subject down on page 11. Presumably they are a greater authority on a tennis-related subject than the mini blogs I discovered populating the SERPs 6 or 8 pages above that.
On the first page there are results from webmd.com, about.com, a Squidoo lens selling a CB product, and whaddoo you know, another page from that same mini blog, coincidentally selling the same CB product as the Squidoo page. It shows that thin sites and affiliate focused web 2.0 properties can still escape Google's wrath.
On another Google note, I was also checking one of my rarely posted on blogs today. It is in a subfolder of my main domain for that niche. Imagine my shock when I found that while the blog was at position #2 on page 2 for the chosen keyword, the main site was at position #1.
What's the big deal?
The main site is a website template that still contains mostly placeholders, such as
"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipi scing elit. Mauris urna urna, varius et, interdum a, tincidunt quis, libero. Aenean sit"
and 16 broken image links.
Really, Google?
After all, you're probably following a few hundred people already that aren't doing squat for you.....