Comments on: Case Study: Surfing San Diego

By: Detlef

Detlef — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:31:49 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. I have seen that auction ads and like it. I was thinking about using it with another site I have. This is the first I have heard of archive.org…why is it important that I be archived by that site?

I did notice google picked up the backlink. My term “surfing gear” went from nowhere to 267. I did add an intro paragraph and have been customizing landing pages with intro keyword paragraphs for each page. I had another ebay site where my keyword hit google #11 and I did absolutely nothing for it, go figure. Both sites are about 3 months old.

Thanks again

By: Sarah King

Sarah King — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:49:11 +0000

I’ll bite and let it stand. Your site is basically a search tool for eBay auctions. Much like the Auction Ads I have on this site. You are cached in Google but not at Archive.org so that needs to be addressed.

While this page may be a PR4, the page rank doesn’t boost the SERPs and the page doesn’t feature for the word “surfing” at all. I downloaded a blog spam tool recently (just to see how it works) and sure enough, it finds 46 WordPress blog posts with PR3 or higher and this is one of them.

With savvy wordpress users loading up tools like Akismet I wouldn’t go counting on too many of your posts getting far though.

By: Detlef

Detlef — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:36:38 +0000

OK, how is this for an experiment, your “case study” is now a PR4 for “surfing” so I figured what hell, I’ll make a post so I can link to my site at http://www.surfing-gear.net so see if I can create a good google backlink. I would appreciate it if you leave it up in comments and I will post anther comment to let u know how it performs.