Comments on: Why Some Weak Sites Rank High in Google SERPS

By: Daniel Lew

Daniel Lew — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:09:16 +0000

Yes, I actually get this, I am the only most well SEO Professional on the internet with the name “Daniel Lew” and there has always been 1 site just on top of me, I cannot do anything to get above it. An .edu site with the title “The Lew Lab”

By: Jordan Foutz

Jordan Foutz — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:42:41 +0000

We redesigned utahmountainbiking.com – now utahmoutainbiking2.com and they have ridiculously good rankings (#1 for mountain biking, etc.) and their whole site is in tables and frames. They only thing I can think of is their site is 10 yrs old and everyone with a website links to them. Let me know if there is anything that could drive their crazy results w/ out any link structure for any of the pages or page titles even. Bizarre.

By: Aaron Charlton

Aaron Charlton — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:49:35 +0000

I have noticed that new pages, particularly blog pages, seem to float to the top quickly for long-tail searches, then drift into oblivion over time. I wonder if this is a result of the process you are speaking of, or if it’s just Google giving new pages a bit of a shot. Anyway, there are so many variables!

By: Alfonso Marcos Vidal do O

Alfonso Marcos Vidal do O — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:12:27 +0000

another “pretty” example. Searching for “animales actores” (spanish translation for “animal actors”) we found
http://www.daktarianimalfilms.com.ar/ ranking 4th top SERP´s.
Poor SEO optimization, poor backlinks, “terrific” design… any element to deserve their fourth place. (apologies to designers). Maybe a domain registered for 6 years.

In 5th we found Zooko Productions website, animal actors rental agency (http://www.zookoproducciones.com)
More than 6 years registered, and a plan to go up into SERP´s actually run.

After read Ann´s article, it seems Google doesn´t take care of our efforts developing optimal sites for users.

By: AtlantaRealEstate

AtlantaRealEstate — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:29:59 +0000

In the Atlanta Real Estate keyword arena, there are 2-3 sites that enjoy page one that are absolutely horrible. But, they are 10 years old and basically, nobody has simply out ranked them yet.

I’m working on it!

Rob

By: Addami

Addami — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:42:41 +0000

Thanks for the tips! Very interesting!

By: Internet Marketing Revealed

Internet Marketing Revealed — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:40:14 +0000

May be those weak pages are in the eyes of the beholders. Every SEO experts think that the pages they have worked on so hard to make it SEO friendly are stronger than the higher ranking pages in the SERP.

By: Norman Rogers

Norman Rogers — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:11:06 +0000

I would say that Google’s efforts to build an algorithm that no one can predict has been a massive success. Congratulations, Google–I’ve all but given up trying to figure out how I can legitimately structure my sites to fit with what you, yourself, specify.

By: craig - internet marketing

craig - internet marketing — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:06:48 +0000

I have seen some truly awful sites at the top. I have attributed this to them having grabbed the best domain name long ago.

The random feature of Google’s algorithm forcing results is very interesting. If only we knew more….

By: Rohit

Rohit — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:49:45 +0000

yeah I sruglled a lot once to ring my website in top which was aqquired by and unknown website with no backlink and no content at all, it takes me 5-6 month to get rid of that page and made in to top 10. I had posted a thread in Dp also about that which is still the most famous thread I ever have, everyone was clueless why that happend