| Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | Chesterton111 | 3/31/11 2:20 PM | Hello, I am selling some machinery and I did a basic google search for MACHINERY APPRAISAL. The top listed result (non-paid) is a machinery association called AMEA at http://www.amea.org/. I went there out of curiosity, expecting a site with tons of |
| Re: Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | Michael Martinez | 3/31/11 4:59 PM | Size doesn't matter. The keywords tag IS ignored. The words do NOT have to appear in the URL. |
| Re: Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | Chesterton111 | 4/1/11 8:48 AM | Thank you, Michael. Very informative. |
| Re: Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | brettburky | 4/1/11 10:18 AM | @Michael. I have been doing SEO for a good number of years now and I just want to ask you about the Size doesn't matter answer. I am having an issue currently where a site is ranking better in the SERPS and the only thing that I am seeing is that t |
| Re: Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | Chesterton111 | 4/1/11 10:36 AM | Brett brings up a great question. A collegaue of mine always to points to Wikipedia as being in the top 10 of pretty much any search you do, simply because of the millions of pages and sheer amounts of content they have pushes it toward the top. M |
| Re: Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | Michael Martinez | 4/1/11 11:14 AM | How many queries would you like me to link to? Please make it a reasonable number. The rules of induction call for a minimum of 3 examples of similar nature and after that it pretty much follows that the point is proven. But I'll be glad to give y |
| Re: Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | Chesterton111 | 4/1/11 11:30 AM | Thanks again, Michael. I'm beginning to see how important it is to have other pages link to you. Thanks to your replies, I see that links to your site are more important that the amount of pages you have. |
| Re: Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | brettburky | 4/1/11 12:45 PM | Hello Michael. 3 examples would be awesome. Im just using it to show the team that what you are saying holds true. I believe you but with relevant backed up data that really helps. Thanks so much for doing this, that is above and beyond. Have a |
| Re: Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | Michael Martinez | 4/1/11 2:18 PM | I would like everyone reading this discussion to understand (and ACCEPT) that I will NOT be baited into providing "proof" every time someone wants to disagree with me in the future. I offered to do this in this discussion and that's as far as it goe |
| Re: Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | Chesterton111 | 4/1/11 2:31 PM | Hey, I'm still trying to "prove" to people that they're wasting their time and money developing keyword meta tags. How many different times do I have to show them Mr. Cutts' articles on this topic, and they still don't get it or believe me. |
| Re: Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | Michael Martinez | 4/1/11 2:38 PM | Okay. Here are three examples of my choosing. Let me include a preamble as well. Google's estimates of how many pages are included on a site are just a CRUDE ESTIMATE. I pressed Matt Cutts on this and asked him to explain WHY that has to be so, an |
| Re: Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | Chesterton111 | 4/6/11 4:36 PM | Great stuff, Michael. Thanks. Knowing that keyword meta tags do not affect a site's ranking on Google, and that title tags do affect ranking...what about the description tag? I am under the impression that the purpose of the description tags is fo |
| Re: Please...help us understand why a tiny little site is ranked # 1 | Michael Martinez | 4/6/11 5:26 PM | I have never seen Google index the text in a meta description tag. I *have* seen Google place greater value on pages whose meta descriptions matched the queries very well. Maybe that just means that people whose meta descriptions match targeted queri |