Search Engine Optimisation BlackDog

Yesterday Damien’s SEO contest came to an end and google has been very nice to my entry  mybluejumper.com . The basic rules of  the competition were to:

• rank highest for the term [geansai gorm] on google.ie
• domain name had to be new
• .IE domains were not allowed
• no keywords allowed in the domain name

And here are the results:

Hats off to the other guys who but in some great efforts. I counted around 15 entries, all though I am not sure if some of them were created by the same person.

A longer post will be following in a few days hopefully. Where I will be outlining some approaches I took to things (obviously some things I won’t be discussing). As I am a great fan of stats, here are some:

• Overall I had unique visitors 788 to the website.
• The resulted in almost 6, 000 page views.
• The busiest day (besides December 1st) was November 16th where 73 visitors came and looked at my entry.
• 531 people visited via the keyword “geansai gorm”
• strangest keywords were “photosesion dublin” and “gigs in kerry”
• google delivered 601 visitors
• windows live gave 40 visitors
• yahoo sent 20 visitors
• 2 people came via MSN search
• 17 blog posts were created
• google indexed 36 individual pages.
• 232MB of bandwidth was used by visitors
• 7MB of bandwidth was used by googlebot

Daily search positions of the entries can be seen here.
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