Comments on: Higher SEO Rankings With LMNHP

By: Matthew Lord

Matthew Lord — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:02:24 +0000

This is very interesting. I can actually see where it could have positive effects for your website. Blog style websites are constantly achieving more authority in the SERPS, so this may just be a natural progression.

The long term results of this will be very interesting.

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:49:03 +0000

The only risk I am aware of is the risk of the unknown. I think this approach allows the search engines to produce more relevant items in SERPs and it is not against the TOS so I do not expect any problems.

As for the alternates of a static page or a blog home page where the content is always changing, I find this approach performs better for visitors and in search engine rankings. While the Title and the description meta tag are so important in creating the item in the SERP, I think this is the only way to go.

By: Autoverzekering berekenen

Autoverzekering berekenen — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:46:21 +0000

interesting but I think you are taking a risk. Why would you go for a non-static home page which is changing all the time. I think you are pushing the problem forward with a redirect, instead of getting a total solution.

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:53:01 +0000

Good to see you here, Chris. If the pages rank well, then I don’t think you need to worry about penalties.

I would always add the content as blog pages, since static pages do not have a news feed associated with them. In a sense, news feeds double up your visibility in the search engines, particularly through social media such as FriendFeed.

By: ChrisCD

ChrisCD — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:38:54 +0000

I did try the forums and worked on the issues that were suggested. The left over glaring problem is “lack of content”. I could add content, but at this point would almost just rather maintain the blog. I just don’t want to risk the blog.

I’ll try the forums again. It has been a few months. Will the Ad crawler automatically remove “penalties” or do I have to seek a “re-inclusion”. The pages still rank fairly well, so they aren’t banned.

Thank you. BTW, I saw your note on WebProWorld and came over here. I think the LMNHP will be a good experiment for some of my blogs.

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:25:54 +0000

It is wise to check out such issues in the Google Webmaster Central Forum, where you may even get a Googler responding. That is obviously much better information than anyone outside Google can give.

For the issue you raise, Chris, provided the static pages have no issues (e.g. inbound links from bad neighbourhoods), then there should be no problem with 301 redirects.

By: ChrisCD

ChrisCD — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:15:08 +0000

Semi-related question: I have a site that is a mix of static pages and a blog. The static pages are only showing service adds, possibly because of lack of content. But the blog is still showing regular adds. Some of the static pages have good rankings. Would it be safe to 301 redirect the static pages to the blog or if there is some sort of penalty would that then be “directed” at the blog as well.

Thank you,
cd :O)

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:54:07 +0000

This is no longer an experiment, Ajith, since the results are favorable and all logic suggests this is a much better way of handling blogs than the default way. As I have written now in a variety of other places, the default way of handling blogs produces problems with the search engines. I am therefore not expecting any problems in the future, but that must be kept under review.

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:23:05 +0000

Thanks for the clarifications Barry. How long are you planning to run this experiment? I would really love to know the outcome for long term..

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:32:01 +0000

It was within the top 20 in a 3 million item search for ‘higher SEO rankings’ within 12 hours and within the top 10 within 36 hours. It is now at #8 which is probably its long term position given the competition.