Excellent follow-up. Thanks Kim!

My site is #18 on “Mormon temple,” and there are actually a few related searches that put it into the top 5, such as “lds temple preparation” (#1 and #2), “mormon temple preparation” (#3), or “LDS temple symbolism” (#3).

http://home.uchicago.edu/~spackman/temple and http://home.uchicago.edu/~spackman/templeprep

Ben S.

K.

I think the jury is still out. Google often “sandboxes” sites that suddenly get a big number of new links for 6 months or so. They want to stop people from spamming their way to the top with faked or temporary links. I think we will have to wait to see what happens over a longer period than just six weeks.

The efforts of the Bloggernacle certainly is not anywhere close to being a big number of new links. It’s a drop in the bucket (that’s being generous) compared to true GoogleBombing efforts or true linking initiatives that actually work.

Mark my words. Nothing will be different in six months.

Ohh, I’m not too sure about that.

Part of a real six month campaign would be to work on front page links from every LDS site you know that has a high Google page rank and to pick a site that has good HTML structure and content — even if you have to back door that (I’ve given in and sent in redesigned sites for groups I had an interest in and solved the problem that way).

What you’ve done is the first step, not the final one.

Consider the first search result for the term Adelbert Denaux …

Though http://www.google.com/search?q=Alessia&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official_s&lr=lang_en&sa=X&oi=lrtip7 is hindered by the fact that there are two competing celebreties with the name and things using that term get sandboxed a little if they rise too fast (the Alessia links climbed quickly and then got set back a bit when they were sand boxed. But, watch in six months — still, top 30 results up from the original top 40 results).

“Part of a real six month campaign would be to work on front page links from every LDS site you know that has a high Google page rank”

It isn’t about the front page. It’s about the pages that are the highest ranking, which may be the front page in some cases.

Anyhow, that’s beside the point. When I said nothing would change six months from now, it was in references to the efforts of the Bloggernacle from a month and a half ago.

I agree Kim, and rather than trying to gimic higher page rank, maybe lds authors should exert the effort to publish meaningful commentary with links.