Archive for February, 2009

TheJim an SEO failure

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

So after an SEO review of thejim.me.uk it would appear it’s a rather big disappointment.Where’s my frontpage SEO ranking google? Did you forget about me, or do you just not care? I’ll be investigating your blatant and treacherous googlism!

I have a domain name containing “thejim” and also “thejim” appears in the title of all pages and is the textual content of the <h1> tag. So one would think with all these markings of “TheJim-inism” I’d have a rather higher pagerank.

The peculiar thing of course being that the current google pagerank for TheJim is 3, not great, but hell of a lot better than other places which appears on pages 1-4 of the google search results. (n.b. pagerank is NOT which page you appear on in a google search!)

A quick google search for “thejim” shows that even a wallpaper site makes it higher in that rankings than me, The Real Jim Shady.

So, it made me wonder; does the suffix of “.me.uk” on TheJim had anything to do with it. Perhaps google doesn’t  consider any “.me.uk” to be  an authoratitive domain for information on the subject title? It would appear not. A quick scan of the “thejim” in google search revealed that google appears to have a preference for .org , .com , and .co.uk, quite a few sites of which don’t contain The Jim in their URL link. Yet has no favour with little ol’ “.me.uk”.

So, what to do? Well you’ll all be seeing this Jim VERY soon, very soon indeed!

It seems there are a lot more Jims out there than just this Jim… Beam me up Jimmy!