Vanity, vanity , vanity…..
November 22, 2007 – 9:45 am
Since most of the US bloggers and affiliates are taking easy today, enjoin their roasted turkeys and preparing for tomorrow’s and Monday’s sale marathons, I have decided to take it easy as well. So today I was doing some vanity search and to my amazement Google is listing me #5 for my name.
Before experimenting with Googlebot, I was occupying 12th position for the term. It is true that my article on how I am planing to beat the “other Vlad” have generated few important links, however I do not believe they were sufficient enough to jump my website to #5 position, especially competing against Wikipedia.
So what happened? I think my entire experiment has caused some what of a confusion on Google’s data centers. But it is only my guess.
I do not know how long this phenomena will last, but it appears that my experiment, although it is over, continues to affect my blog. Not only I have improved position for my name search, I have dramatically improved on some other very competitive keywords in my niche, and I am observing increase in Google’s traffic. The question is how long will this last?
Happy Thanksgiving!
Tags: 149, Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Usual Rant
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10 Responses to “Vanity, vanity , vanity…..”
You received some useful anchor text links from my list of sites hit with a penalty, and that page itself is quite strong now.
It isn’t such a competitive term that a few strong links can’t have a dramatic effect.
By Andy Beard on Nov 22, 2007
Hmm, that being said, you are only 11th here
By Andy Beard on Nov 22, 2007
Interesting, still 5th here…..
By Vlad on Nov 22, 2007
Is ti possible that Google is serving different SERPS in different countries?
By Vlad on Nov 22, 2007
They serve different SERPs all the time from different datacentres, thus what you are seeing might be what is going to happen, or what may happen in the future, or due to local or personalized results.
By Andy Beard on Nov 22, 2007
Since you have the most confusing domain name I have ever seen, I googled for vlad the affiliate. And it was only after hitting the search button I remembered about your experiment and I too was surprised to see that you are still #1 for that keyword.
By Joyce Babu on Nov 25, 2007
I use to have #1 for “vlad the affiliate” for quiet some time even before the experiment.
So when I let the googlebot back I am not that surprised to regain that place.
I am am surprised that I rank for some other more competitive results better.
By Vlad on Nov 25, 2007
I didn’t knew that you are now allowing googlebot to index your blog.
By Joyce Babu on Nov 25, 2007
It’s back down to #9 here, but I know you got some pretty strong links from Andy and several from myself and a few others (oviously not as strong, but decent.)
You’ll get it eventually
By Josh Spaulding on Feb 7, 2008
Josh,
I can’t keep up with your comments lol.
I am no longer worried about this. “Vlad” is not a profitable keyword as far as I am concerned.
By Vlad on Feb 7, 2008