No, not really. That page still ranks very low and I am not quite sure why. It has a pagerank of 3, is properly optimized and has some external links to it.

That’s some SEO mistery to me…

I was wondering if your experiment changed your rankings for “central vacuum systems” already??

Did you use some other stategy to try to improve your ranking for that keyword?

Best regards

Thank you for taking a look at my site.

I am a bit confused. I have 2 keywords on my homepage – homeschool and homeschooling. Should I add another keyword to the home page as well even if I’ve already written a T2 page about it? Should this be a high demand keyword or one I can easily rank for?

Also, I have a link at the bottom of every page as the AG suggested. I thought we were supposed to use the page’s keyword in the anchor text. Did I miss something?

I’m off to take a look at your site.

Carletta

Thanks for sharing. I checked your site and first thing I see is that on your homepage you have only one keyword: homeschooling. I don’t think you can rank high for a single word. You need to choose a keyword you think you can rank for and use it on your homepage, possibly in a second variation too. (like homeschool)

Can you rank high for “pros and cons of homeschooling” or “benefits of homechooling”? Or any other?

Then you also need to link back from every T2 and every T3 page (like the Action Guide tells you! ) with the anchor text using your main keyword…

Squidoos, Hubs and Wikihows have worked also well for me when I choose the right keyword. If it is a low supply keyword the pages can rank in as little as a week.

I use the keyword in the url, the title, and in a link back to my site from the page. I also point a link to the page from my blog.

I’ve been very inspired by your success with SBI and I hope to have equally successful results of my own soon. My SBI site is http://www.successful-homeschooling.com if you care to take a look and offer any feedback.

I’ve been working like crazy for the past 10 months and my income is just now reaching $200 per month. I hope my windfall is on the way, lol.

Great blog!

Carletta

Interesting to know what Matt employs on his personal site. I think I came across the sitewide link caution from SearchEngineNews.

Best, Don

As long as Matt Cutts and official Google blog have blogroll sitewide links to other sites and hundreds of blogs link to these blogs from a blogroll, so long will I consider sitewide links as something normal.

Don’t fall for every rumor you read online…

99% of all SEO talk is just a theory. There are no proofs, these guys just want to feel important and they keep writing some stuff that comes to their mind.

I am sure Google team quietly laughs reading all those theories…