Toronto Blog: A Google Pursuit

Published by Toronto Mike on January 18, 2008 @ 12:51 in SEO: Search Engine Optimization

google Periodically I'll target certain keywords in Google just to test certain SEO techniques. When I picked up the domain name torontomike.com to complement mikeboon.com, I decided I should target the search toronto blog. This is, after all, a blog with a Toronto-centric angle.

With fairly little effort I started ranking in the top ten on Google, but I seem stuck in either the 3rd or 2nd spot. There are a couple of bigger boys targeting the same keywords and they're tough to catch. Quite simply, they have a helluva lot more inbound links with the anchor text toronto blog.

I just took the screen cap below that currently shows me in 3rd. I'll update this little challenge when I'm on top of the Toronto blog food chain.

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6 Responses to "Toronto Blog: A Google Pursuit"

SoccerMom
January 18, 2008 / 14:52

I googled me (A Mother's Thoughts) and I came up on the first page and was totally excited about that, I think I would be giddy as a school girl if I was in the top 3 and I think the more crap I leave on your site the higher I will rank...lol

felix
January 18, 2008 / 20:49

You're actually number four if use Google.com instead of Google.ca. But that's still pretty darn good, I'd say.

Doug
January 19, 2008 / 10:47

Yeah, but you beat Raymi the minx...

Toronto Mike
January 19, 2008 / 16:42

And I did it without showing my boobies once!

SoccerMom
January 20, 2008 / 12:30

Oh so that is the secret to being googles one, two or three ~ It's not the key words it's boobies!

Roshan
January 21, 2008 / 11:40

Hey Mike, I think the other two are only about Toronto, while you have a lot of personal stuff too.

And that's why we come here, right guys?