Just kind of interesting in that I don't think this site has been up before the election and now 3 or 4 days later it's # 2 in the SERPs. It's not in the wayback machine or Alexa. http://change.gov http://www.google.com/search?q=chan...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a I'm sure it has a lot of good back links and a .gov extension but this shows how quick you can go to the top with the right links.It will be also interesting to see how long it takes for Google to give it site links.
For me change.org comes first. And it looks like a combination of social news and charity related website.
Yes in my original post I said it ranked # 2 not #1, yet. The blog on it has a first post of Wednesday, November 5, 2008 04:09pm EST. In less then 48 hours it is # 2 Result of about 1,220,000,000 for a common dictionary word. This is a good way to observe the Google algorithms for the best case SEO scenario. Obviously practically no one could put together a SEO campaign like this. But for any possible campaign this is the quickest the SERPs would ever react. The upper limit.
It was faster this morning. There servers must be getting hammered by every one who used to be on http://my.barackobama.com/ signing up for government jobs
To all, this is a new Oboma Administration web site (Obama-Biden Transition Project) that has just received incredable hits this week. It will be #1 within the week based on traffic only. Notice that there are no links yet and just indexed. This is a good example of what traffic does for rapid ranking. Oh, does this also meet the criteria for the "Google Sand Box"? New site == not ranking. NOT! *************************** And the site needs to be SEOed. Any volunteers!!! *************************** Or.......... Does Google just like the new administration?
haha, i just heard about this site today! (i think from cnn?)... change dot gov, like it's a government agency haha. Will it be active when B.Obams is inaugurated? Or just until then
Yes this might help your rank But really without any special manual work from Google some big newspaper and blog links plus a .gov extension, which probably means there are some .gov backlinks from nice high pr old pages, and you beat out wikipedia.
It is amazing to see this. But I also have a question here. Is the word "change" a competitive word? It seems to me that not many sites will target at this word ...
This must be American specific (I'm in Canada), as it doesn't come up for me at all, in fact, the wikipedia article about the band "Change" is in the first position... and Change.org is #2, with changeeverything.ca is #3... and so on. No change.gov.