A friend asked why his site was showing up on the first page of google when compared to the other pages. Nice problem to have……right?

Anyway, I tried to answer. First here is his question:

I have 2 questions to the following:

How can a page from a site i have with a Google page rank of 0 and Alexa of 952645 with a keyword “wood relief panel” and Results 1 – 10 of about 3,030,000 for wood relief panel.
appear on page 1 of the Google search .

Below are the screen shots and the relevant links :

Quote:

http://www.google.com/search?q=wood+relief+panel

Your site is ranked #8 in my SERP’s for the search results on “wood relief panel”

I checked the page rank of most of the pages on page one, none have any pagerank.

google internal pages indexed 1500
Yahoo…external links 455

seoquake shows:
external links 53
internal links 176

The site below is #7 and right above your listing.
the site:

https://shop.theanimalrescuesite.com/store/item.do?itemId=39282&siteId=310

is ranked #7

it doesn’t have any pages indexed by google
it doesn’t have any external links in yahoo
seoquake shows:
internal links 219
external links 16

This is result #3

Site: http://www.novica.com/itemdetail/index.cfm?pid=68582

Pages indexed by Google =0
External links…Google =0

yahoo external links =0

seoquake shows:
internal links = 43
external links = 66

Also your keyword density is 4.86 for “wood relief panel”…..higher than most of the other pages.

Almost always it your position depends on links. Of course there are other factors but if your linking pretty well explains why you are showing up on page 1

I bet if you were able to get some keyword anchor text for “wood relief panel” and included the keyword phrase as alt tags for some of your images on that page you’d find yourself even higher.

This is just a brief look at your page and the others. I’m sure someone else can do a more thorough job, but looks to me like you’re all without pagerank, not that it matters much, and most of the top pages have linking similar or less than yours. One thing in common is that a couple pages ranking higher than yours have “wood relief panel” in their alt tags of the images.

Hope that helps

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Hey Josh….I appreciate your post but think your logic is a bit faulty.

Josh basically said that too many people have fallen for the general consensus that wordpress is the best platform for building websites and selling good and services online, he goes on to say its a matter of what wordpress does…..you can read more about it here.

The water is hot and I burn my hand. However, you say not all water burns your hand. Exactly, only hot water!

Thus you say, Google doesn’t prefer wordpress sites but because wordpress has plugins, rss, pings, blah blah blah…it gets indexed first and quicker! If this is true…isn’t WP better?

So is it a matter of symantics or are you just stating the obvious? The point is, you burn your hand because the water is hot…..or wordpress blogs get indexed quicker and can be construed as being favored by Google simply because they have all these gadgets that attract Google and Google likes. Bottom line, Wordpress blogs are better than static sites!

I think I understand what you’re trying to say and I agree with you. If you take a static site and make it do all the things that a wordpress site does, Google will notice it faster and it will get indexed and ranked quicker.

Personally, I prefer using Dreamweaver to build sites and have been using it for 6 or 7 years. Recently (2+ years ago) I’ve been introduced to Xsitepro. I really didn’t want to have anything to do with Xsitepro, however, I was creating graphics and minisites for a plr membership and they required Xsitepro for the minisite platform. After using it for a year, I began to get attached to it simply because you could make a site get spidered, indexed and in the SERPS within 24 hours, often times sooner.

Like Wordpress, Xsitepro automatically does things to the site structure and pages to create an seo optimized website and webpage. However, you use other features such as create an xml feed (rss feed) sitemaps (standard and xml). I’ve found that doing just these 2 additional things and then submitting the feed to rss directories will get a webpage or site spidered and indexed in Goolge in less than 24 hours.

Yep, an Xsitepro site in the serps in under 24 hours. Often times the same time or less than a wordpress site, if I don’t use my Auto Social Poster plugin, the wordpress site does not get indexed in less than 24 hours.

So….in many words and in many ways I completely agree with you. Wordpress sites don’t experience the quick ratings simply because they are Wordpress sites, but because of all the processes involved when creating wordpress sites. Apply those same processes to any static site and you should experience the same results as any wordpress site!

Thanks again,

Scott

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