SEO Competition: One Week Left!
One week to go. One week to see if I managed to rank with this blog for the keyword Oscar Carreras using only ON SITE techniques higher than Oscar Carreras for the keyword Davide Corradi using only an OFF SITE Strategy.
It’s been 3 long weeks since we start and this are the result achieved so far:
The keyword “Oscar Carreras” on www.seobloom.com
My article is keeping ranking in a pretty good position. I haven’t managed to enter the top 3 result in Google yet but I can’t complain. Still ranking very high in Yahoo! with 2 pages in the top 10 results and (hurrà! better later than never!) I made my first appearence in Bing!
- google.com: 1st page, position 5th (was 7th, gained 2 position from last week)
- google.co.uk: 1st page position 5th (no change)
- google.co.uk pages from uk: 1st page position 5th (despite the site is hosted in Italy) (no change. This week only 2 out of 8 images in the images result are showing my pretty face. They were 3 last week
) - yahoo UK 1st page position 2nd and 3rd (was 3rd, gained 1 position from last week)
- yahoo.com 1st page position 5th (was 7th gained 2 position from last week)
- bing.com 5th page position 47th (new entry)
The keyword “Davide Corradi” on www.europeanseo.org
Oscar’s page is pretty stable in Google and Yahoo! where, as we saw last week he is not ranking (and probably he won’t anymore) with the targeted page but with the page about what he did to make my name rank. He’s ranking in second page in Bing but with the wrong page (the homepage, where the optimised article is)
- google.com 1st page, position 10 (was 9th, lost 1 positions from last week)
- google.co.uk 1st page, position 9th (was 8th, lost 1 positions from last week)
- google.co.uk pages from uk: not ranking (the site is hosted in US)
- yahoo UK not ranking with the correct page anymore but is ranking in first page with the slightly optimised page
- yahoo.com not ranking with the correct page anymore but is ranking in first page with the optimised page)
- bing.com 2nd page position 18th (new entry – with the wrong page.)
This week takeways:
Internal links from the homepage or even from fresh new pages are a good way to push your landing pages. When you are on the top of the SERP you can stop optimising your site: the Search Engine are changing, your competitors are changing. Keep monitoring and adjusting your site!
Same as above: OFF SITE activities need to be constantly performed. Oscar told me he was doing some dodgy work this week to push his page. Let see if it will pay off next week!
Bing: Still quite bad isn’t it? There are a bunch of really irrelevant pages ranking in the top results. A curiosity: Oscar’s website is ranking in 2nd AND 3rd page with the same Url! What a stupid thing to do Bing!
Final update tuesday 9th of March. It would be fun!
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