The real reason my site got to #1 in Google for Rhinoplasty Plano
Today marked a pivotal moment in the life of this controversial experiment from the first Rank or Go Home Challenge by Steven Kang and the SEO Signals Lab Group . The experiment was featured in Search Engine Journal by Roger Montti yesterday and perhaps by coincidence, 4 months after our site hit page 1 for Rhinoplasty Plano and has consistently remained there, it today has finally been de-indexed by Google and received a manual penalty. Roger Montii did a solid job analysing the top 2 sites (out of 27 competitors in the challenge) and dissecting what myself and Igor Buyseech had done to get our sites beating genuine local businesses who had, until the SEO challenge, been claiming these page 1 positions presumably for many years (apologies go out to Dr Wilcox who I’m sure is a great cosmetic surgeon, you can have your #1 spot back now). Roger concluded that Igor’s site was probably in a top position due to very light code in his WP theme, site speed a...