First, If you go to google and type "network liquidators", you can see additional sitelinks below our main domain". It took alot of work to hit this status. ------------------------ I've also been working hard on obtaining these extremely relevant terms for the company I work, which is networkliquidators.com. I have always followed whitehat SEO practices including writing articles, using classifieds, blogs, link trading where a promotion is involved and not for PR purposes, sitemaps, proper navigation structure, proper meta desc and title tag structures, and indepth SERP results. "Used Cisco" - Rank #1 to Rank #3 This term usually jumps around every week possibly due to high competition and scoring for the term may be so close it alternates. I've noticed a pattern between the top 3 sites alternating every week or so. "networking equipment" Rank #3 Hoping to get this term back to 1st eventually. "used network equipment" Rank #1 Highly Targeted since Used and Refurbished is our industry "used network hardware" Rank #4 Highly Targeted since Used and Refurbished is our industry and competes with our biggest competitor networkhardware dot com. "network modules" Rank #3 Ranking terms once you make it to the authority site level becomes a breeze compared to trying to rank terms starting out with a fresh site. "cisco switches" Rank #3 Highest broad conversion Term for profit. "computer articles" Rank #2 Highest traffic term industry related "cisco certification articles" Rank #4 & #5 Decently traffic term leading visitors into industry-related information. "at&t telecom" Rank #3 Ranked this to gain exposure to a handful of products of business phones. Just for giggles. "aastra" Rank #9 Nothing like getting a manufacture on the first page for a company "gn netcom" Rank #8 Nothing like getting a manufacture on the first page for a company. Pretty much redundant. "nortel phones" Rank #7 After aquiring a telecom resale company I had to organize about 2,000 products into categories, which entitled manual research to target as many terms as I could. The information I wrote and compiled led me to great rankings in the telecom industry as well as networking. Yes, I am boasting about it, but so many people complain they don't get traffic or the type of traffic they need to their sites. I'm just successful and have been for a long time and am here to tell you, keep working at it. A authority site doesn't grow over night but can take years of planning and strategies implemented to get your name out there. From experience, targeting sites that are related to you even with a PR of 1 and holds your keyword terms is way better than any pr 6 directory page site. P.S. My philosophies and strategies can change on the fly, what I may believe on day may not be the same the next only to be modified from what I learn on that next day.
I believe that you are absolutely correct on this. PR has meant very little to G for a very long time. Yet, many people still chase it. PR is simply a measure of a site's link popularity. G's goal is deliver results that are *relevant* to the search terms. It therefore stands to reason that links from relevant sites are quite helpful. /*tom*/ BTW: Congrats!
It took about about a year to maintain those terms on the first page of google. Alot of people don't realize, if you want to hold those terms, you need to actively making content for them on your own site and even your established blogs. I have to believe after this update, that PR value is scaled down while site activity has gone up in relation to ranking a site. Thanks to you all. I've been doing this for quite awhile now and keeping the traffic has been my main goal. Trying to boost it from where it currently is at is quite a challenge. I may add a news feed from bitpipe or another networking tech site to maybe hold on to my visitors longer, and gain visitors from "mystery keywords".