Not found - now found.

Why does it rank well?

[morty]

I have a client that I have been discussing SEO work with. I think they could benefit greatly from good positions.

Up until Tuesday this week they were no where to be found on Google, now all of a sudden some Top 10 rankings.

That's good, but their site has very few of the things I hear are "required" for good rankings. They have PR5, only 3-4 incoming links (they are in DMOZ and Overture), no body text on their site. No link text or H1 or ALT text, nothing.

The only I can see that gets them indexed is their Title and their Meta Keywords and DMOZ. Is that enough to keep them with good positions? Is this just a lucky "everflux" position?

Thoughts please.

[JonB]

Up until Tuesday this week they were no where to be found on Google, now all of a sudden some Top 10 rankings.
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areyou sure? that is utmost strange. could be they work or have friend in google ;)

[rogerd]

Welcome, morty. It sounds like your client is getting the benefit of the DMOZ listing and perhaps is in an area without much competition. While their positions don't sound too bad from what you describe, it's very likely they could get even better results across a larger range of keywords if you work at building up the deficiencies you describe. More links, more text content, etc., will only help.

[Grumpus]

"Freshed" pages seem to get a major boost in ranking - at least from my experience. I have several pages on a new subdomain with nary a link to them except for one deep within my main site. Those pages often enjoy top 10 rankings for the first few days of their existence.

G.

[nvision]

It's certainly a good start. Work from there to better the quality of the site in terms of ranking/indexing possibilities by increasing content, and submit to more search engines and directories.

JonB - I've noticed over the last few days that a lot of sites that were dropped in September are back in the Google Directory (with no PR, but it seems to give hope for return).

[Macguru]

I think Grumpus got it right. morty, do you see a 'fresh' date on those good listings?

[morty]

Macguru, yes they have "fresh" dates of Nov. 5

Thanks to everyone for the replies.

[Brett_Tabke]

Not all backlinks will show in Google either. You could have many more links that have given you the pr5.

[rogerd]

Brett's right (as usual!) - you can check some link pop tools like the one at SearchEngineWorld to see if there are more links which don't make the Google cutoff but are still contributing to PR.

[DaveN]

rogerd is there a link pop tool on sew

DaveN