Yes, you are. Do the search. Click on the link to the article. The page that used to be there is now redirecting to the homepage. This means that either: a) The page is cloaked, Google sees one thing and visitors see another (not so likely considering the surprise at being #1), or b) After she got to #1, she decided to redirect the page in order to funnel any traffic from that phrase to the homepage (this is what I assumed happened, and is what my post is based around). -Michael
Yep. It's a redirect. I don't care, but google might. The filename of the original page, coupled with the keyphrase usage in the post is enough to rank for that longtail. Nice cloak! http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cach...I+dont+feel+like+doing+anything&hl=en&strip=1
Well, like I said, it's still more likely that she just decided to redirect the page after ranking, in which case it's not a matter of cloaking. -Michael
It wasn't a cloak. I actually deleted a few 100 pages of my site that I though were not getting any traffic. My site has an automatic 404 direct to any page that doesn't exist. I don't have the content for that page, and, outside of this post I'm sure nobody would be looking for that page. This post was just meant to give a little hope to people who thought they would never be first. Anyway... Not a cloak.. Just an innocent 404 redirect for the whole site.
Good for you! Now that you know that you have ranking for a certain keyword does it give you traffic?
Well, I had over 100 people from this forum type it in. But, no... I don't plan on ever getting traffic from it. But, it gives me a lot of hope that, maybe, either through hard work or luck, I might get a good phrase.
Well, technically you can get as many phrases as you want really. Not all will bring you traffic, but some it's just very cool being #1 for. (I have a few, low volume but neat to see, ego boost types of things) You should put that page back before you lose the rankings. Grab it from Google's cache. -Michael