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1:43 am
September 11, 2011
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The Frugal Toad
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I was going to do a quick update on a post I wrote about Starbucks giving away a free app with every purchase. I searched on Starbucks app giveaway and noticed my post was ranked #2 for crying out loud! I know I should be happy about this but in reality I am really pissed off! I did absolutely no SEO on this post, nothing! Left all the SEO fields blank, typed about 3 lousy sentences and hit publish.
Not one of my other post are in the top 100 and I spent a lot of time optimizing each article for keyword density, H1, H2, etc. What gives?
Can anyone shed some light on this for me? In the meantime I am going to link every article in my blog to that stupid Starbucks post. 
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6:19 am
September 11, 2011
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My University Money
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If you link to every article on your blog from that post it will diminish the "juice" it sends to each specific one. I would pick 3-5 that you want to focus on and organically link in context to optimize results.
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6:29 am
September 11, 2011
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Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog
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"I did absolutely no SEO on this post, nothing!" That's Google for you. Totally unpredictable. That's why you should build backlinks, which increases your overall chance of getting ranked.
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6:57 am
September 11, 2011
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The Frugal Toad
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My University Money said:
If you link to every article on your blog from that post it will diminish the "juice" it sends to each specific one. I would pick 3-5 that you want to focus on and organically link in context to optimize results.
MUM,
I was kidding about every article, as a matter of fact I did not update the post as I was worried that it may affect the indexing and ranking of the article.
I've only been blogging a short while and haven't been in this situation before. Can someone tell me if I update the post, maybe add a new paragraph on the newest Starbucks app that is out and change some anchor text pointing to a few carefully chosen articles, would this possibly affect the ranking of the article?
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8:03 am
September 11, 2011
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Money Reasons
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thefrugaltoad said:
My University Money said:
If you link to every article on your blog from that post it will diminish the "juice" it sends to each specific one. I would pick 3-5 that you want to focus on and organically link in context to optimize results.
MUM,
I was kidding about every article, as a matter of fact I did not update the post as I was worried that it may affect the indexing and ranking of the article.
I've only been blogging a short while and haven't been in this situation before. Can someone tell me if I update the post, maybe add a new paragraph on the newest Starbucks app that is out and change some anchor text pointing to a few carefully chosen articles, would this possibly affect the ranking of the article?
I find if you get specific enough with keywords, google give you a better change of ranking high in search results. If you search for just Starbucks, you'll probably be on page 20 or lower (same as I would)…
The real way to judge your page is by if it has any pagerank for that individual page.
Still, nice job, how does your traffic look today with respect to your starbuck's article.
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10:05 am
September 11, 2011
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JP
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Grats on the high ranking! Unfortunately that's the mystery of SEO, only Google knows what really optimizes everything and their not telling. It could have been that it was one of the first quality posts written and still gets the clicks.
I have updated a couple posts and seen their rankings rise but no where near the top 10. Think pagerank is best way to get to the top, but that's just an educated guess.
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11:25 am
September 11, 2011
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The Frugal Toad
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Unfortunately a high SERP does not necessarily mean lots of traffic.
76 hits over the last 30 days, have not looked at my analytics account.
I just wrote a post on How to Save Money Eating Out and used Google's Keyword tool to try an optimize the article for SERP. I will report back with details on page rank and what I did to optimize the article. That is assuming the post is ranked at all by google!
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2:48 pm
September 11, 2011
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Tushar @ Everything Finance
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Yup. Thats Google.Totally unpredictable.
I have a similar post that ranks on the top of Google for "visa or mastercard". Go ahead try it. And its been on the top for at least 2 years now.
Can't complain. :)
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9:02 am
September 12, 2011
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter
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Congrats on the successful post. Enjoy the moment.
If you really want to improve your SEO then you actually have to SEO every post. Check your key words, write a short description, link to it, and write linking articles. There are plugins for helping out with this like Scribe SEO and people on this forum that can assist too.
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10:13 am
September 12, 2011
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My observation lately has been of google putting some weitage on +1 button. Do a google search on "yakezie carnival" and see all carnival posts with +1 button clicked will appear at the top of rest (even when you are not logged on to google).
Do it with Bing or Yahoo and see entirely new ordering.
If you are not already including +1 to all your posts, do it asap!
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2:36 pm
September 12, 2011
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter
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OneCentAtatime said:
My observation lately has been of google putting some weitage on +1 button. Do a google search on "yakezie carnival" and see all carnival posts with +1 button clicked will appear at the top of rest (even when you are not logged on to google).
Do it with Bing or Yahoo and see entirely new ordering.
If you are not already including +1 to all your posts, do it asap!
Good to know. Thanks
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2:56 pm
September 12, 2011
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I used to think I was top 3 for all my keywords. Then I learned that if i'm logged into Google it skews the results toward sites/page i've visited. In reality my keywords weren't doing nearly as well if I logged out of Google and searched again.
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3:34 pm
September 12, 2011
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Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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Sustainable PF said:
I used to think I was top 3 for all my keywords. Then I learned that if i'm logged into Google it skews the results toward sites/page i've visited. In reality my keywords weren't doing nearly as well if I logged out of Google and searched again.
That's a really good point. I went through the same "delusion" about my keywords for a while! 
If you want to see how you really rank, then log out of Google, or use this tool: http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bi…..craper.htm
If you really want to track a lot of keywords, then Market Samurai would be a good choice.
After doing that, I realized that I have a lot of work to do!
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