Day 13 - a rainy Saturday
[ Jun 26 2004, 14:32 ]A combination of not much to say and general lethargy meant I missed adding an entry for this thing yesterday. However, I wasn't entirely unproductive and managed to complete the addition of the 'Finish the Cambridge web design search engine positioning Limerick poem competition' to the home page. Inspired mainly by some dubious page footers noticed on some pages currently appearing higher than this one for the target term, it has allowed me to increase keyword density hopefully without breaking my own rules on content validity.
Current positions
For the Web search this site is currently at position 31, just short of the first significant milestone - a position on page 3. It is generally accepted that if a website doesn't appear in the first three pages of results for a particular term, it might as well not appear at all. Some argue that position 3 is ideal, although in terms of numbers I've seen a significant fall in referrals to iamsad.co.uk since it dropped from positions 1 and 2 to positions 3 and 4 for funny websites, and would say that in most cases the higher a website's position, the higher the number of referrals, (unless there's something wrong with the page titles or summaries that are displayed).
For the UK search this site is now at the top of page 3 at position 21. Hopefully my silly Limerick competition will nudge things on a bit once it's cached, which could be as early as tomorrow.