Seo Test - Real Search Engine Tests

I’ve been a bit lapse in here lately but I have been doing a lot of experiments. The reason I haven’t been logging any of it here is because of two reasons. Firstly, a lot of my results are uncertain and kind of just logged in my head and the other reason is because I have been using mostly sites that I don’t want to give too much information about simply because they are sites I don’t want mentioned here.

This is a difficult one because it makes this whole site almost pointless if I don’t show the real world results but on the other hand if I give away the domain names then it will lead to inaccurate results on the tests, or at least it will in the beginning.

I have been monitoring a lot of interesting behaviours with sites and the serp’s but what I want to do now before I talk too much about it all is recreate the tests from scratch with new domains. I still wont give the domains away, at least not for quite a while, but I will start to log everything here as I do it and give as much detail as possible.

The first thing I am going to test is search results on two websites as identical as possible without getting into duplicate content, the only difference is that one will use a Wordpress template and the other will be straight HTML. Why?

Because I have found that my html sites are consistently about 200-300 places behind Wordpress blog versions of the same websites. The only problem here is that because I have had so many other things happening without logging the details I can’t be sure, it’s something I never suspected so I never looked out for it. It could be a set of coincidences that I have placed some bad links on the html sites or some other reason that has knocked them all so far behind.

Rather than trying to wade through the history of them it will be easier and far more accurate if I start some new sites on the same theme and monitor their progress from scratch. This will start very soon and be updated here so check back soon.

Posted on December 10th, 2007