My child SEO prodigy already seeing her SEO work bearing fruit
It's been less than 2 weeks since my 14-year-old daughter Chloe built and SEO'd her first website, a Neopets Cheats site. And already she's #16 in Google and #17 in Yahoo for her main targeted search term: "neopet cheats". That was pretty fast considering the only link to it was from my blog. According to a linkdomain: query on Yahoo, there is one additional link now besides my blog, but it's just from a splog where they siphoned off Google or another engine's results pages that contained Chloe's site.
This got me thinking: this was a bit too easy. The way that Google and Yahoo favor blogs, no wonder splogs (spam blogs) have become such a problem. And as long as it continues to be that easy, splogs will continue to be a scourge on the Internet.
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I see her at # 10 now in Google. Is that a very competitive phrase?
What exactly did she do? IMO SEO for Google is alot more than just on-page optimization. It looks as though the only "optimization" she's done is use the words a few times on the page and put them once into the title tag. If that's all there is (plus one link from you and one scraper site) than that sounds a bit on the lite side :)
For new domains Google typically moves slowly. I see now shes on a subdomain of wordpress. Perhaps that helped her to get indexed quickly and maybe even has a certain boost associated with it?Comment by Jon Payne [Visitor]
· http://www.ephricon.com —
02/27/06 @ 11:00
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Congratulations to your daughter! Hopefully she'll stay on top for a while, sometimes new sites rank well for a while, but then, they just drop (mostly because Google detected a suspicious activity on your site, i.e. too many links gained in a short period of time, but I don't think that would be a problem for your daughter). I'll try to link to her site on my blog when I get a chance.
Comment by Nadir [Visitor]
· http://www.seoprinciple.com/ —
02/27/06 @ 14:01
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Thanks for the tips, and congrats to your daughters site, nice to see they start young now!
p.s, the pics on the "backgrounds" refuse to show for me. :)Comment by Ma2T [Visitor]
· http://www.celebsource.org —
02/27/06 @ 19:30
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Yeh i saw the website in google at second page. Its a greate position that you have in google. Congrates to your daughter!!! The keyword “neopet cheats� its very competitive. Greate.......
Comment by Ady [Visitor]
· http://searchengineoptimizationseo.blogspot.com —
10/25/06 @ 12:37
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hey! thats really cool. i never got into neopets, but if she wants another thing she could try world of warcraft cheats or runescape cheats. just my suggestion. thanks.
AviComment by Avi [Visitor]
· http://avi-reviews.blogspot.com —
12/18/06 @ 10:31
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