Search engine rankings for my online origami store, using fairly general keywords such as "origami cranes":
Yahoo!: 3 - 30
MSN: 3 - 11
Google: 500 < UNKNOWN
The ever-elusive Google rankings...
How can one improve their site's Google ranking? Of course this would be directly related to how Google decides. And how Google decides is a secret. There is speculation, but no one knows for sure. Look at this site, and you'll get an idea of the nuances that go into Google rankings. Google even has ways of determining if you are doing something to cheat the system, in which case they would kick you down to the bottom.
Google hates me. I'm pretty sure my site is grossly violating their rules and they're penalizing, because there's no other way the search term "buy origami" wouldn't show my site in the first 350 results (2nd in both Yahoo and MSN). I know various things I am doing that make my ranking good in Yahoo and MSN are making my ranking bad in Google. Which is why I use ads in Google only (visible only in USA). Arrr. I'd rather keep things the way they are, instead of lose my Yahoo and MSN rankings while I get to be on the tenth page in Google.
I never use Google to search anymore, only Yahoo, which has worked out really well for me :P
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Ha! I just have to boast here. Back in something like 1999 everyone was turning all google-mad and I STUCK TO YAHOO. People used to get into arguments with me about google being better. Bullsh*t! OK VKo you know I deviated for a little while but it didn't take long for me to come back. Yeah that's one of my proudest accomplishments of the Noughties.
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