Organic search rankings – December 2007

As mentioned in the previous bangle bangle blog entry web sites live on traffic and free traffic is the best kind of traffic. One of the best ways to get your website to rank well on Google and other popular search engines so that potential customers can find your site. Ideally we would like to be on the first page when customers search for the keywords bangle or bangles.

The way to do this is to actually quite simple:

  1. Code your site well with good use of the key search terms bangle or bangles
  2. Get other popular web pages to link to your site

The only problem with this method is that it is a bit of an open secret and everyone knows it so there is a bit of a crush to get on the first page while everyone loads their pages up with keywords and getting lots of other sites to link to them.

One month into business www.banglebangle.co.uk has the following organic results:

www.yahoo.co.uk
On a search for “bangle” = 4th result
On a search for “bangles” = 331st result

www.yahoo.co.uk (search narrowed for UK results)
On a search for “bangle” = 1st result
On a search for “bangles” = 217st result

www.google.co.uk (search narrowed for UK results)
On a search for “bangle” = 497st result and last week it wasn’t even in the top 900
On a search for “bangles” = 566st result and last week it wasn’t even in the top 900

So all in all not a bad start. But since 57% of all searches are made on Google (Yahoo 23.7%, MSN 10.3%, Ask 4.3%, these are American figures) we need to do a lot better with them before we will be able to give up our day jobs and move to the South of France.

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2 Responses to “Organic search rankings – December 2007”

  1. Erik Rasmussen Says:

    Well, your domain certainly makes “good use of the key search terms bangle or bangles”. :-)

  2. admin Says:

    Agreed and can I just say thanks for using the words bangle and bangles in your comment :D

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