SEO Competition: On Site Optimisation or Link Building? first 24 hours results
Here we go: the On Site SEO vs OFF site SEO experiment goes on. To recap I have challenged my friend Oscar to rank as higher as possible for the keyword Davide Corradi using only OFF site SEO techniques, while I would try to rank as high as possible for the keyword Oscar Carreras using only ON site SEO techniques. In one month time we’ll see who is ranking higher.
9th February 2010 – First Ranking Report
More or less 24 hours after starting working on my landing page and 24 hours after Oscar Carreras started his off site activities to his page (cheating a bit if you want cause he put a internal link from the homepage and this should be considered ON site SEO…Carreras: tarjeta amarilla for you!!!) here are the first results:
Google
my page is already indexed and the website is ranking with the homepage for the term Oscar Carreras in:
- google.com: 3rd page, position 22
- google.co.uk: 2nd page position 15
- google.co.uk pages from uk: 1st page position 7th (despite the site is hosted in Italy)
Oscar Carreras made the actual deep page with my name ranking even better (apart from the cheating bit we have seen before 
check it out how he did it):
- google.com 1st page, position 9
- google.co.uk 1st page, position 7
- google.co.uk pages from uk: not ranking (the site is hosted in US)
Both the pages are still not indexed in Yahoo! and Bing which is something quite disappointing.
First 24 hours takeways:
Google is crawling and indexing pages at a terrific speed. It took few minutes to get indexed for both the pages and less than 24 hours to get to the first or second page.
Internal links with good anchor text are a great way to push internal deep pages.
External links are the quickest way to get a high ranking. I wonder how long does it take to the Search Engines to analyse the relevancy of these links and maybe devaluate the importance of some of them… Lol! We’ll see in the next weeks what happen.
Next update tuesday 17th of February. Stay tuned…
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On page – keyword related techniques
Off page- link related tecniques
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Other than that I agree with you 100%, the speed of Google, indexing two very humble blogs so quickly is very impressive. Remember that it needs to index the pages where I build links from too.
Note: See that I have already dropped two positions in Google.com. I think that link velocity (the speed and regularity with which you get links to a page) might also be important.
Second note: I am not going to build more links to the page. Firstly, because I don’t have the time, and secondly because I want to see how long it takes for the page to go down.
Third note: testing nofollow link in this comment to see if it passes some value ; )
Nice contest. I don’t agree with your friend when he said “We, SEOs, have little excuses now and can’t tell our clients/stakeholders that it will take a few months for our changes to be seen and computed by Google. Nowadays, the big G crawls the web every day.”
Gogole always crawled the net every days. Fact is they now consider social media power important even than an H1.