I just got owned by Google

• September 27, 2008

This just goes to show that sometimes you can overthink things when you’re dealing with Google.
My latest blog venture started about 17 days ago. As I usually do, I thought about a keyword phrase to target and eventually decided on the phrase "Mexican Porn". I went ahead and bought three domains "mexican-porn" for .net, .org and .info. I figured I would create one main blog on the .net and the other two I would try my hand at splogging and create feeder splogs that also strengthened the backlinks on my main blog.
I was now ready to pursue my objective of conquering the world of Mexican Porn and began to create my new blog. I pulled all the stops including writing tons of new posts making sure to keep the keyword density between five and six percent for my keywords, "Mexican" and "Porn". After getting my blog where I wanted it, I submitted it to all the ABC Blog Directories I could think of, added some linkbacks, registered to the search engines and feedburner, created sitemaps and everything else I could possibly think of to help this blog along
After all the time and effort I put into that blog I was now finally ready to tinker around with a splog. So, I got on the .org domain I had purchased and began starting a splog called "Mexican Teen Porn". I installed a theme, added a couple of feeds and linked the blog to my other blogs. Then I completely left it alone. I didn’t optimize this blog at all. Hell, I didn’t even register it to any SE’s. It was basically just left there as an experiment to see if the feed program I was using was working okay.
So, it’s been about two weeks since I did all that. It took longer than usual for my main blog to get indexed, but it finally did. I’ve been checking lately to see how well I was indexed for my two keywords I set out for and I was not even close (as expected since the blog is brand new).
Then low and behold, today Google has PR update so I pull up all my sites to see what’s changed and sure enough my new Mexican Porn blog is now a whopping PR2. "Awesome!" I thought. Surely that must have had some effect on my placing on google, so I typed in the keywords "mexican porn" and started to look for my site. I get to page 6 and there it was at the very top! Only, it’s not my main blog. It’s my fucking splog!!! I’m thinking to myself "wtf? …well, okay. Surely my main blog is right behind it then" so I continue searching…
and searching…
and searching…
and then FINALLY in the middle of page 24 between two pages that had nothing to do with the subject I find my blog. My recently turned PR2, HANDWRITTEN blog that has been dedicated to the topic of Mexican Porn and has been "optimized" for those specific keywords is now sitting in the middle of page 24 between two completely insignificant pages. While my splog, which I spent maybe 2 hours on and forgot about is already enjoying a page 6 ranking.
All I can say is…
Wow, I suck! LOL
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