What the hell is this shit? Check this SERP for the fairly high profile term “cheap flights”. It may have changed by the time you read this (I hope so), but right now, I’m seeing a wierd URL from Travelocity at #2 in the organic results, which on investigation appears to be their “JavaScript is not enabled” page. Fair do’s, their internal IT team need taking out and shooting for presenting that page to spiders, but why have Yahoo indexed that page at all? How is it that it shows up at #2 for a huge term like cheap flights, but not at all (not in the top 100, at least - I got bored looking) for a site: search? Madness
I took the SEOmoz SEO Quiz thing, and scored 71% - none too shabby, on the face of it, but some of the answers that were given as wrong merely reflect a difference of opinion between myself and whoever set the questions. Of course, a couple were where I was just going too fast, and gave an answer that I instantly realised was wrong, and in one case just flat out hit the wrong answer (well, yeah, 301ing a penalised site to someone else certainly can hurt them - I know this, so WHY did I answer “false”?)
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Having a good domain name makes SEOing a site a lot easier in many cases. Keywords in the URL are a nice boost to have in and of themselves, and if your key terms are there, it also means you’ll get a lot of good ancxhor text WITHOUT HAVING TO BEG FOR IT.
Look what’s going active - www.seoblog.com. Who wouldn’t love that for their root domain…? If the content is any good (and it should be), that should shoot up the rankings like a rat up a drainpipe. It’ll be interesting to watch.
