Hi guys, I changed my site over from tables to css, it's a very simple site, and there are only 5 pages. I've shown this before: online stopwatch It's been doing good, getting about 300 hits a day, but it's never ranked anywhere on google, best it got was 52nd (it does rank 1 on msn though) Anyway, i changed the site from tables to css, taking the sites code down from a tiny 8kb to an even smaller 4kb. Now, in 4 days, the site comes on the first page on google -- only no.10 but still, its a big jump! I dont know how im going to get any higher really now, the top 2 deserve thir place, look how many .edu backlinks they have -- but "onlinestopwatch".com has no links, and very few keywords, the only reason google can rate this site so high HAS to be its domain name. just showing how it can really help. So even though mine is about the subject (which that is not), is optimised with meta data, a better domain still outranks it. Anyway, cheers guys.
not to burst your bubble....but Google will usually rank exact keyword matches in a domain -- such as yours -- a lot higher than others, no matter what the PR is (of course backlinks are still important) I've seen terms where the top keyword has a search result where the first hit is a PR3 and the next hit is a PR7, just depends on your keyword. But either way, congrats on your new rankings
are you sure the jump isnt due to updating instead of changing coding? I know google loves sites that are updated constantly. Though interesting findings.
I'm not sure guys, i guess it could be just from the domain name, and the update, but apart from the actual, code, nothing has changed. It just seems a coincidence that it would jump from 52nd to 10th in the 4 days since my site update. It's been 52 since july, so im sure it has somthing to the switch. i wish i had another site to try it with. --- Luke, here you go matey, have fun: http://www.webuildpages.com/cool-seo-tool/
Cheers man It's the first time i've tried css -- i've looked into it before, but a friend explain it, and now i love it!! I'm nowhere near ready to move any of my bigger sites to css, but i think any future smaller sites i'll give it ago. (Just have to master "rounded" corner boxes, then i'm set )
I agree. I switched to css format a while ago, it took some time to iron out the kinks, but it freed up more space and got rid of all that text.
maybe. Theres only one real way to find out. I've got a spare site, its just doing nothing right now. heres some stats: ------------------------- The domain name is the keyword.org.uk/ it has a pagerank of 0 (which will not change based on css) Most of the pages indexed will be from a phpbb forum on the site, as there are only 10 actual pages of content. I'll post again onces it's made into css, then i'll wait and see if anything happens to the stats. Cheers.
I did something similar on my web site: I was already using CSS, but I recently moved the navigation panel from the top of my code to the bottom. It still appears in the same place on the page when viewed by a user, but the search engine bots will see a header followed by content, with all the mucky navigation at the end of the file. My organic traffic (mostly Google) has been steadily increasing since I did this. Cryo.