NotaryBids.com Blog

Back on 3/16 I captured the stats on the “Stats/Progress” Page. Today I ran the numbers again to see where we are. Honestly I had not actually done anything yet to affect the numbers but there were some strange results! Results that to me don’t give me much trust in the accuracy of the numbers.

Here is what I found: Yahoo Site Explorer is reporting 33 LESS links to NotaryBids.com from other sites. What happened did 33 sites close down this last week?

Yahoo Site Explorer is reporting 6 less pages on the NotaryBids.com web site! Now cmon…I did not delete 6 pages this week!

Google Toolbar back link checker is reporting just 17 back links to NotaryBids.com (sites that link to NotaryBids.com) YET when I Google “notarybids.com” as of today the number of results has increased from 349 to 518…169 MORE! So, how can the back link checker say only 17 sites link to NotaryBids.com yet there are 518 mentions of NotaryBids.com on the web. Granted some of those are the NotaryBids.com site but as we already know there are no more than 40 pages on the site. I did actually browse some of the results and they are legit.

Lastly but certainly not least is Alexa. Somehow NotaryBids.com managed to lose 104,620 points in their ranking system this week.

Here’s the wrap up… it’s still early. Maybe these are normal fluctuations. I will just have to wait and see. For now I’m not going to put too much weight on the first week of monitoring.

One thing I have learned this week though in reading tons and tons of SEO blogs and forums. If you want long tern sustainable results content is king. So along with my plans to optimize the site for City/State Notary searches I will be focusing on adding good solid content to the site.

It’s Friday night about 10:45 pm, time for a cocktail!

- Chris