Washed Up Webmaster Doing Ok On Google

[daveches]

As a slightly washed up webmaster, I decided recently to follow the herd and give the pixel ad fad a go. I published [URL=http://www.companybattleships.com]Company Battleships[/URL], and bob's your uncle, 2 months later I'm google number 4 for "pixels for sale" (just behind Alex) and getting quite a few referrals (but not selling any ads).

I know I write clean, syntactical html, and I've got a few incoming links, but surely loads of people must manage to do those simple things?

Sometimes it surprises me how easy it is to get Google top 10, not difficult.

Any thoughts?

[Ian J]

>>>>>> Any thoughts? <<<<<<

If it were that simple everyone would be doing it

My main site is highly rated by Google yet I have difficulty in reproducing that success with my other sites

[cssoh]

Ian, I checked out your site and it appears that my site and yours are rated more or less the same on Google's Page Rank. Just out of curiosity, how old is your website and did you do anything special to get rated highly? Mine is less than 2 years old and didn't design it in ways that SEO would normally recommend (keyword rich, link exchange, etc). I have done practically nothing as far as search engine marketing goes, except for a couple of months last year I was on Adwords.

[Ian J]

I've had [url]www.factoringsolutions.co.uk[/url] for six years with the current site design for three years. My second site at [url]www.invoicediscounting-uk.co.uk[/url] is fourteen months old and although the same style as the first doesn't rank anywhere on Google. Much of the text is similar and I wonder whether that has anything to do with it.

[marksteadman]

I've found something similar. I have a site with a very strong PageRank, but Google just hasn't read any of the keywords on the site. Maybe that's why your sites aren't coming up? They may be in the system, but for some reason - and I'd love to know what - Google isn't reading past the first page it indexes.

[cssoh]

I wonder if Google might read the second site as a mirror site...in which case it will affect the rankings.

[Ian J]

I'll try and completely rewrite it and see if that helps at all but it isn't easy to have a second site that says the same as the first without duplicating anything.

[JoJo]

Completely the same pages/sites would be seen as a duplication

[Pinkie Toe]

Hello everyone - new to the forum (in fact, this is my first post). At any rate, I don't even think Google understands how Google determines search engine rakings.