Hubpages hub achieves top Google positioning in just 2 days
59Front page google exposure in 48 hours
When I started my tagtopics.com internet content experiment two days ago (22 Jan 08) I decided to use hubpages.com as the first of the social networking and article writing websites in the project. The site was very simple to use and the hub was up and running within just a few minutes, compared to several hours of html coding my own basic site.
The hope was that a high traffic site like hubpages would get me a google positioning after a few weeks, and help me grow the website through search engine traffic. Search engine optimisation was always going to play a big part in the experiment, but I had no idea that hubpages was going to be such a powerful SEO tool.
Google Results After 48 Hours
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Just take a close look at the screen print from a google results page taken just two days after the hub was launched. Did you take a close look?
The search keyword was internet content experiment and I will admit that I expected to get a good result for this phrase as this was not likely to be a highly searched term, but not after such a short period of time. The search was not conducted using quote marks (for exact word matching) which can sometimes be an easy way to get a higher ranking, as this is not a normal way for users to search google. SEO experts will tell you that it's not so hard to get a good position for an obscure term with low competition, but just take another look at the image.
There were a massive 15,100,000 results returned for that search, and I was in first position on google after just two days!
In such a short space of time my hubpages hub had got first position on google for a search result with over 15 million competition pages. For me personally, this is a fantastic result for the beginning of the experiment. But what can this tell you about your own hub and search engine optimisation?
Hubpages has great traffic, google loves it and with a bit of SEO work you can submit a page that will get almost instant recognition. The most important search engine optimisation excercise is the title - this is the number one keyword tool and forms the URL (web address) for your hub. My title included the phrase internet content experiment, so this is now part of the URL for the article, http://hubpages.com/hub/the-tagtopics-internet-content-experiment. By keeping the hub relevant to the keywords and producing a keyword rich title, this amazing result was achieved with very little work. Think hard about your title, include your keywords and keep the article relevant to the hub title and your hubpages work could produce the same results for you!
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Great isn't it! This was my first hub and I can't tell you how shocked I was when I saw the results come up - shocked but very pleased.
You might find that it is the power of PR6 links and lots of them that will also have an effect on your search engine positioning. Your hubpages will be replicated all over on other hubs, tags, hubitivity etc within hubpages.com.
Good linking programs are a must for sound seo strategies and your post proves it really does work.
Thanks Terry, some similar (but still original) content was added to squidoo at about the same time. This took longer to get into the google rankings and still appeared below the hubpages listings. Not trying to 'brown-nose' those in hubHQ but I'm ultra-impressed with this here site!
I think you are misleading people with the 15,100,000 results because this shows results for "internet," "content," and "experiment," If you do a search for "Internet content experiment" there are only 8 results - all of which are yours :)
I do agree that hubpages gets indexed very quickly but I am not quite sure I see the point of this.
Mark, I'm not sure that you've really read the hub properly here!
Take another look at the hub and the screenprint included - I have clearly stated that this search was done WITHOUT using "quotes" which give results only for an exact match of the wording. If you search a term in quotes then of course you are going to get just a fraction of the results shown!
In respect to your comment "I am not quite sure I see the point of this" - I would like to think that a lot of hubpage users would disagree. I've only been on the site for about a week now and if I hadn't have achieved such good results, I might not have come back!
I think it's important for new users (like myself) to have confidence in the sites ability to make our hard work worth while. It's just MY opinion, but I think a success story makes that point.
Anyone agree or disagree? Please let me know
Well, I am also talking about this statement:
"There were a massive 15,100,000 results returned for that search, and I was in first position on google after just two days!"
As far as I can tell, the use of the word "massive" and "in just two days" is trying to suggest that you have achieved something remarkable. I am pretty sure that I could get a webpage this highly ranked for any other search term just as obscure as this one without too much effort. And none of the 15,000,000 results apply to the term you are using.
As I said, I agree that hubpages gets indexed quickly - I also agree that the site is well optimized , but this is a serious exaggeration on your part - I take issue with this because of the dozens of PM emails I get asking me what they can do to improve their standings - You are perpetuating the myth that it is easy when it is not:
I have to be honest Mark, I'm confused by your remarks - or at least the tone of them! However, I wanted to approve them in the interests of a fair discussion.
I appreciate that the individual term was obscure, which is why I was so surprised to find 15m results. I do consider this to be a 'massive' number and the fact that these results were found 'after just two days' was the whole reason I wrote the hub in the first place. I consider that "something remarkable"
I'm not claiming that this is my expertise, I'm just pointing out what I see as facts in the way my first ever hub was listed. I've seen your profile and some of your hubs and you're obviously an accomplished hub writer - I'm not and this was my first attempt, and it did well (whether by luck or judgement) and I'm disappointed that someone would take offence at that!
I am merely pointing out that the reason you got 15,000,000 results is that there are 15,000,000 webpages with one of the words - internet or content or experiment in them. The fact that your page is at the top of the results for the search internet content experiment, does not mean anything - because this term is almost never searched for and if you do a search in parentheses for the term, there are only 8 results.
My fear is that you are giving people the impression that it is easier to get found by google than it really is.
Like I said - I am impressed by how quickly hubpages gets their site and content indexed, but you could as easily set up any blog and get found for an obscure term such as this within 2 days without difficulty.
I don't want to rain on your parade, but I do not see the point of getting excited about this and the 15,000,000 results mean absolutely nothing. If you did a similar experiment and searched for any three words which you had written a hub about, the result would be the same, because the results show all the webpages that have one of those words in.
Make sense?
It seems to me you and Mark are having an enriching arguement and we the viewers are bound to benefit by way of knowledge aquisition in the intellectual cross-fire-Thanks for the post tagtopics
I somehow agree with Mark, in the sense that searching your site with your three predefinite keywords is quite easy. Try building a page talking of Parkerliverzitwitt, and google will find it easily using this word.
What would be much impressive would be to make a site about making money online (a crowded niche) and have it number one in google for keywords "make money online" within days, or even weeks.
I don't say what you do is bad, but you should try to do in a domain where more content is already available.
Hope this clarifies a bit
Rod
I'm so glad to see some more comments here (except the deleted seo spam!) this is really great!
It seems that the majority of 'experts' disagree with the post, but some of the newer hubbers (and those here for fun) seem to like it - there have been some who have contacted me via email too! I'd sooner not get into a battle with Mark over this but one last comment:
Is '2008 motorcycle guide' a highly searched keyword phrase?
As for Rod's post, if only I could get top for that phrase - I'd be sunning myself in the Bahamas now instead of hiding from the wind and rain of the UK! I must admit that if you can come up with a word like Parkerliverzitwitt of the top of your head, your wasted here ;)
Thanks all again, but I'm sure there are some more thoughts out there - let me know if you like/dislike the hub, have another experience of getting top of google or have just written a site about Parkerliverzitwitt!!!
LOL - God, no - but it is more highly searched for than internet content experiment, LOL
The good thing I get from that hub is that I get found for a whole bunch of other search terms too, including:
2008 motorcycle guide
2008 sport bikes
2008 motorcycles
2008 street bikes
2008 motorcycle
motorbikes 2008
motorcycles 2008
2008 motorbikes
best 2008 motorbikes
And a lot of models/manufacturers names combined with 2008
But, like I said in that hub, I am buried in the back of beyond with my Forex Trading Guide :)
I'm sorry, but I tend to agree with Mark/ Writing about a less common topic, you're bound to be on the top of the search. Plus, when you look up you exact title or most of a title with out without quotes, it's the most relevant to the search, which is another reason it could have been number one in the search. Not to rain on your parade or anything... I've looked up many of my hubs- common topics and not- by the title and they tend to be number one or close to.
I think that if your hub was found on the top of a search using one of you tags or a similar thought, it may be more momentous. I don't know. Just a thought.
I have to agree with Mark and Whitney. First of all, the 15,100,000 results is a red herring, if you would've searched for 'internet content experiment' before you ever wrote the Hub, you still would've gotten around 15,100,000 results.
I agree it is nice to know that Hubpages get indexed fairly quickly by Google. But, there is no special magic in that you had a top result for the phrase "internet content experiment". It was a top result because that's a unique phrase.
If I made an article titled: "Zen Beachball Facepaint", after a day or two it would have a top result in Google, if anyone used that search specific term. If I wrote that article, the goal would be for Google to give it a top result if someone did a search for "Zen" or "Beachball" or something like that. THEN it would be something to be excited about. :)
Sorry mathan1234, we have to write about Parkerliverzitwitt before we can get to Zen Beachball Facepaint!!!
Mark and Whitney are two of the top rated hubbers around, so I'm not going to argue with the points they're raising - far from it, I agree with them in the main. On the other hand I really HAVE TO stick to my guns when it comes to the writing of the hub in the first place.
The hub was written about the success of http://hubpages.com/hub/the-tagtopics-internet-con which in turn was to promote an idea of mine to start an 'internet content experiment'. If the aim was to push this idea, then it's a keyword that has importance to me. I think they call this 'finding a niche'!
It would seem that this idea has died in the water, but the discussions created by the resulting hub have been fantastic. Although hubpages does not really approve of the writing of opinions (especially in request) the comments raised here prove that we all have different views of good/bad, success/failure etc. etc.
I still truely believe that everything in the hub is pure fact, but these comments just go to show that we don't all see facts in the same way.
KEEP THEM COMING, I'm learning just as much from these comments as from anywhere else!!!
Parkerliverzitwitt! Of course! Why didn't I think of that? ;)
Okay, next question, did someone click on your adds? :-)
Robunited
How stupid do I feel now - I'd set a channel called 'hubpages' on adsense, but forgot to set the url channel. Therefore I've actually no idea how much of my adsense revenue is coming from here. Done it now though!!!
Now I've set it i'll be sure to let you know how it goes!
Good to know we're on the right track!
boppster says:
2 years ago
Nice Article.
I just did a quick google search on some of my hub pages and you are right. They were consistently at the top or on the first page of the search!!!