Just earlier, a few hours ago, although I was not able to replicate this, the 72.*.*.* IP block of Google datacenters was briefly showing seocontest2008.uk.com as number 1. And it seems spreaded among this block showing mixed results with either me or seocontest2008-sphere.com or seocontest2008.org interchanging 2nd, 3rd and 4th places.
But after a 30 minutes of checking, I could no longer replicate the results I was seeing except for one datacenter I visit having seocontest2008.uk.com as number 1. But I also noticed most of the cache dates seemed to roll back to March 1, 2008 even if a few days ago many results were having the March 4, 2008 cache date.
Even if my site went back to number 1, signs like these already mean something. Their websites are strong indeed, aside from that, both of their sites seem to talk about a group effort in making their site rank higher. And these two sites uk.com and -sphere have more than 4 times the amount of links I have so you never know when big G might just flip the switch someday before April 1.
Solution to the SEOContest2008 Problem 8
Well there are only a number of things any SEO person can do.
- Build more links: Concentrate on Relevancy and PR or Concentrate on Quantity? What do you think?
- Show some regular page updates to increase the crawl rate. Not a critical ranking factor, but if you want to see the effects of what you are doing faster in the SERPs, you also want to be crawled faster.
Well let’s see how it goes.
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