Sometime on October 6/7, 2004, a major Google update happened, or at least that is what the news is. We had, however, started to see some changes a couple of days ahead on all of our websites. The good news is that we have come out to be in pretty good shape in this update.
Lindisima.com Latinas on the Internet: Maintained its overall rank at 5 and was able to get new ranks on recently added pages. Lindisima blog climbed to 4. Traffic on this website is exploding and for the month of September 2004, we had an average of 10,000 visitors a day. Wow!
MYNIPPON Love & life, guilt free: Maintained its overall rank at 5 and was able to get new ranks on recently added pages, particularly on our Guilt-free lifestyle channel that we are very excited about. We were hoping that our Find a man (after 30) channel will also get some rank but probably we were too close to the update. The MYNIPPON blog climbed to 5 while this ebusiness blog achieved a pagerank of 3 in a matter of weeks. Not bad; we are very satisfied.
LuvCube Find, live & enjoy love, a website that was launched in June 2004 achieved a pagerank of 4 while the LuvCube blog reached 5. We are very excited.
We achieved similar results on iProceed Shortest path to strategic growth which has a overall pagerank of 3 but several pages are actually 4 and 5. We are wondering if we should change the main page more often. Like other blogs in our network the iProceed blog also achieved a pagerank of 5.
Similarly no change was expected in our corporate website eCreativa network of interactive online media. Mostly 4 and 5.
So how did we manage to have such high pagerank?
Lindisima.com Latinas on the Internet: Maintained its overall rank at 5 and was able to get new ranks on recently added pages. Lindisima blog climbed to 4. Traffic on this website is exploding and for the month of September 2004, we had an average of 10,000 visitors a day. Wow!
MYNIPPON Love & life, guilt free: Maintained its overall rank at 5 and was able to get new ranks on recently added pages, particularly on our Guilt-free lifestyle channel that we are very excited about. We were hoping that our Find a man (after 30) channel will also get some rank but probably we were too close to the update. The MYNIPPON blog climbed to 5 while this ebusiness blog achieved a pagerank of 3 in a matter of weeks. Not bad; we are very satisfied.
LuvCube Find, live & enjoy love, a website that was launched in June 2004 achieved a pagerank of 4 while the LuvCube blog reached 5. We are very excited.
We achieved similar results on iProceed Shortest path to strategic growth which has a overall pagerank of 3 but several pages are actually 4 and 5. We are wondering if we should change the main page more often. Like other blogs in our network the iProceed blog also achieved a pagerank of 5.
Similarly no change was expected in our corporate website eCreativa network of interactive online media. Mostly 4 and 5.
So how did we manage to have such high pagerank?
- We don't design our website to achieve a certain pagerank. We design it for you. Google takes care of the rest.
- Don't go crazy getting links. If you have good stuff, people will put links for you without asking. We do the same.
- Keep it simple (like Google). When you make it fancy, you get into trouble. Give a reasonable title, add the right keywords, provide a short description and then just write an article on the subject that you have picked and make sure that it is useful to someone.
Conclusion: You don't have to pay a million bucks to a search engine optimization (SEO) firm to cheat the system. Just do it the right way and it is free to do that.
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