Monday, April 14, 2008

My SEO Experiment

Search Engine Optimization or commonly known as SEO has been quite a fuzz for sometime now. Since there are now virtually countless of websites all over the world, getting your website on the top results of a search engine such as Google and Yahoo has become a very tight competition these days. Webmasters and content providers then began optimizing their web sites of search engines- thus the term Search Engine Optimization or SEO was born.

Personally, I have made some websites and several blogs my self (including this blog of course) , however, I haven't really thought of explicitly applying any SEO techniques, nor have I created my sites for SEO.

However, I was intrigued, to say the least, when I realized when this blog has been appearing to the top ten or top twenty and , well I checked, on the top thirty of Google and Yahoo! search engines on several keywords.

Since this blog contains, for now mostly tips and information about virus and worms specially vbs worms, I searched several keywords that are contained in this blog and in my mirror blog tekbytes.i.ph

Searching for VBS worm remover, Google places this site on the No. 2 Spot! and the mirror site on the No. 6 spot.
However, since in this blog (up to this time of writing) the term is written as vbsworm remover, not vbs worm, Yahoo! will only place my site on the No. 3. spot if searched for vbsworm remover and not vbs worm remover. (Google will place this blog on the top if vbsworm remover is searched)

Other results:
Keyword(s): bunguton virus
Results:
Google: No. 2: Techbytes5800.blogspot.com (this site)
No.6: tekbytes.i.ph (mirror site)
Yahoo: No. 1 &4: tekbytes.i.ph
No .6 & 6:techbytes5800.blogspot.com (not much competitor though)

Keyword(s): imgkulot remover
Results:
Google: No. 4: tekbytes.i.ph

Yahoo: No. 4: tekbytes.i.ph
No.14: Techbytes5800.blogspot.com

Of course I tried other variations and got different results.

There are other keywords that I have tried though that did not place this blog nor the mirror site, in the top twenty like Repetitive Strain Injury.

I have also created a site which once yielded the No.1 spot in Google, even though the content was just placed temporarily, until we could finalized all that data that we need to place on that site.

Hence, I thought I would make my own SEO experiment, and find out what did I do right that I got those results from the top two search engines.

More SEO experiments and perhaps argue with some of those who claims to be the top SEO in our area. Although I have a humble friend that doesn't claim anything but did something amazing that proves that he's way better than those who claim to be the top SEO.

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About TekBytes

1st of All I'm not a Computer /IT guru. I just wanted to share the little things I know about the current technologies and to bridge the gap between the real techies and the non-techies. This blog is mainly for those who wants to make the best use of the hi-tech gadgets in their hands but are not technically inclined. You may send questions about IT too, and I'll try to answer them the best as I could and if I can't and if it's worth it, I'll post your queries here in hoping we could find someone who can answer. No spamming pls.