Oes Tsetnoc

Few hours ago I made post where I am feeling sorry for myself and my Oes Tsetnoc entry because Google started to burying deep down with no apparent reason. I thought I even got penalized because bunch of my friends gave me links. I felt very paranoic but it looks its heresy to doubt in Google powers. We jumped incredibly from position 46 to position 5.

For Oes Tsetnocs we are at the number 1, and previously we where nowhere for search with that additional S. This is very good news and very motivates me to keep going. However .com looks very stable and reminds me on old times

I also prepared few blogposts that should serve well as link baiting for forum guys. But will not publish them yet.

Now back to the normal and fair link building.

This site is dropping further more. It is currently now on the position 46 and probably if this trend continue it will go even more down. No Google love for us. I am thinking what to do to stop this. More posts did not help, more backlinks also did not help.  .com entry is firmly holding the first place.

On Google I see the following Results 1 – 10 of about 6,200 for oes tsetnoc.

In this time on last contest my entry was well established on position number 1.

I will continue in this tempo for at least a month. Then if nothing changes who knows maybe I will drop from it .

I never experienced penalties from Google in all my online career. Maybe sandbox one or two times but that I don”t consider as a penalty. Since I never experienced them I never thought that penalties really exists or everything is coincidence. Yesterday I was on this thread and realized that this site maybe got -30 penalty for low quality backlinks. Cases are simply to similar. This page was on number 6 at Google, then I started link building campagn and asked my friends to give me backlinks. In the short time at least 15 people responded giving me massive amount of mostly forum signatures, few hours later my entry dropped for exactly 30 positions from position 6 to position 36. After that until now my Oes Tsetnoc entry flawed between positions 32 and 39, and this morning is on position 42.

Am I being paranoic or this penalty things really exists? How can webmaster control backlinks, if this is true then you can easily cause penalty to your opponents?

Or maybe this only work for new and young sites, which means that penalty if exists will be lifter? I am not sure what to do, to slow down linking process because of this
or to continue as nothing happened?

I would appreciate your words for this issue, since I am completely on a unknown territory.

We are in the Day 8 of Oes Tsetnoc seo contest. There is no significant changes. This entry dropped further more, however our blogpost is holding the 10th position. Anyway its to early for any statements and after a month or two we will see who is new Google lover.

Google is magnificent no matter what people say. Just for example, I wroted Oes Tsetnoc blogpost on Sulumits Retsambew site and since that site is very developed, Google indexed that blogpost only 5 minutes after posting, and few minutes after it was shown in the Google index for Oes Tsetnoc on the position 14.

Number of indexed pages on Google is not jumping so fast as in Sulumits Retsambew, it looks much less people joined to this contest. There can be many causes for this, but I except that people got burned off in previous contests in this year, also it is possible that owners did not created enough buzz about it and people simply don””t know it even exists.

One Road to Asabay… uhm not Asabay but to the first place .

Since I am regular user (Oes Tsetnoc page is also powered by WordPress) of a WordPress and I make one site daily at average I know the best how much generic themes are not optimized for search engines. Here is light tutorial how to optimize your WP theme and a site to become very seo friendly.

Many WP themes designers are simply not SEO people and are not interested in SEO. Their themes looks good but suffer from serious underoptimization. Here are the few steps you need to complete in order to get your theme on a decent seo level.

You should have medium knowledge of WordPress to follow these steps.

Step 1.
First step after you installed theme is to check use of h tags. Stick with the simple rule. Use one h1 per page.
For example main page will have site name in the h1, blogpost titles in a h2, h3 empty for possible needs for incontent ordering and h4 you can use for not important things like sidebar titles, comment section, related posts section and similar.
You will achieve this by editing index.php or home.php of your wordpress theme. However with this you only optimized your frontpage how about blogposts. If you dont change anything you will have wrong onpage seo for blogposts. On blogposts you dont need site title in h1, you are not a logo freak, your subpages dont aim your main site keyword.
In order to change this you need now to remove h1 tags from site title and to change blogposts titles from h2 to h1. You need to same thing for page.php in order to optimize Pages.
We have one more part of not optimized – siderbar. In sidebar.php and functions.php you need to put h3 or lower tags for your sidebar titles since actualy they are not so important.

After this is completed you will adopt values in css of your template, so your parts where you added h1 are not to big or to small where you removed them…

Step 2.
Step 2 is easy step. Your site have basic h tag optimized, now we need to optimized meta tags, page titles and post titles.
Install All In One SEO Pack plugin for wordpres, fill the needed values and activate the plugin. Just fill the site title, description and meta tags, other values are good from the box.
With this you will have <title>Site Name</title> on frontpage and <title> Blogpost Title | Site Name</title> for the blogposts, correct meta tags for main site and for blogposts.

Step 3.
In step 3 we will optimize our images. Again we will use plugin to do it automatically for  us. Install plugin named SEO friendly images. Just activate it and forget it. This plugin will append to every image alt tag blogpost title which is usualy aimed keyword.

Step 4.
Our site URLs also need to be SEO friendly, since keyword in domain always helps. We will make that by simply changing
wordpress permalinks settings to custom and entering this “/%postname%/” there without quotes. This will make your permalinks same as on this site.

Step 5.
This is the last step of this light tutorial. Check the whole template code all files for hidden links. Not needed support links (like powered by wordpress, designed by someone) you need to remove if licence of the template allows you  to do it.
If you want to credit them then add to every external links nofollow tag (rel=”nofollow”).

Bonus Step
Validate your theme in W3C validator. It is not related to SEO but it ads that last touch to your modifications.