Marketing blog challenge – stupid things

Three days ago I announced my marketing blog challenge and analyzed www.webinknow.com because I thought it would be interesting to compare my rankings with someone else. David Meerman Scott responded with a post about my challenge and he immediately realized that by doing so he would tweak his ranking for the term marketing blog.

Since I don’t have a tool that can check first 1000 results I had to do it manually. While doing my painful research I’ve discovered that David’s blog moved from position 551 to 243 for marketing blog which is good for him but not so good for me. My marketing blog is nowhere near top 1000 yet but I guess it is ok because I don’t have a lot of incoming links, my domain name is new and it doesn’t contain any of my key words.

Why did I say “stupid things” in the title? Because I think that the age of domain and some other factors like PR shouldn’t matter to search engines that much. I believe that quality of information (content) should be much more appreciated by search engines.

In my case, I have category named Marketing Blog Challenge, my blog is focused on the same Marketing Blog Challenge and blog marketing in general, I wrote an article about werebu.com marketing blog challenge and my site is ranked 35 in Google for these three words and David’s marketing blog is number one. You can say that I’m jealous but I’m not, really, I’m just pissed at Google’s ranking algorithm right now. People, it is mine marketing blog challenge; I deserve to be number one! :)

Enough for today, thank you for your time.

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