Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Secrets of Top Ranked Websites


Are there any secrets in top ranked websites? I’m sure there are some. If we analyze these websites carefully, we can learn a lot.

Let’s search keywords “creative kids” in Google (as my website MaPaGuides targets this keywords too, so I used it for an example). Google showed 5,520,000 web search results (the competition is furious). You can see the screenshot shown below. The first ranked website is “Creative Kids Magazine – the National Voice for Kids”. The keywords are the first two words of the title of this web page.


We can find the keywords are also the first two words in the meta description and body portion of this website, but not in the url. When checking the keywords density using software, there were 16 repeats of phrase “creative kids” (5.16%). It contains 31 words “kids” (5.00%) and 18 words “ creative” (2.90%). Detailed results were showed in below screenshot. When checking the links to this web page in Google, it showed only seven links to this webpage, 160 links to the homepage. The file size is 28k. The Alexa rank is 939,981.


Secondly ranked website is www.myweb3000.com. The keyword “Creative Kids” only appeared once in top portion of the body in this website. It contains 4 words “creative” and two words “kids”. The file size is 19k. Nine links were found for this website. The Alexa rank is 1,016,141.

The third ranked website is http://www.kidscreative.org. It has 10 words “kids”(2.92) and 9 words “creative” (2.62%). The title is ”kids creative” and there are 6 keywords “kids creative” (4.66%). The file size is 8k. It has two links. The Alexa rank is 6365644.

The fourth ranked website is http://www.creativekidsathome.com. It contains 58 words “kids” (5.60%), 10 words “creative” (0.97%), and 6 phrases “creative kids” (1.16%). It has 140 links. File size is 18k. The Alexa rank is 199,717.

So it looks like keywords density, number of links is not that important. The domain type, file size, or good contents are more important for page ranks in Google. But it is more than complicated just considering these factors. Many SEO and website promotion strategies may mislead people.

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1 comment:

G.Suvorov said...

I think you can try SeoQuake, seo toolbar. It can analyze any indexes you may need including keyword density on a page. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3036/ - for Firefox.It works even with Baidu :-) and check out seodigger.com - reverse SE index.