Well it appears I am going to have to concede defeat on this napkin pirates challenge. I learned so much that my head is spinning. The best I could do was my napkin pirates Twitter page. It appears to be #3 right now, so it is close, but not close enough.

I will try to provide some feedback in the coming weeks for anyone who is interested. Thanks for following along.

Have you ever noticed how well PDFs tend to rank for some specific targeted terms? Well I have. As many of my regular readers know, I am in the middle of an SEO contest right now so I thought I would see how well I could get a PDF to rank.

We will give it a little dash of link juice from KansasCitySEO.com by mentioning the sweet new napkin pirates PDF that I found on ScoutTechnology.com.

Go ahead and take a look at the file. Notice I have it saved in a directory called napkin-pirates. The file has a name with “napkin pirates” in the prominent starting position. If you download the file and take a closer look you will see napkin pirates mentioned in the title, author, subject, and keywords fields. The file resides on a domain with good PageRank.

Looks like this file should rank. Now it is time for the famous wait and see game. We will see how it goes.

As many of you have already seen, I am in the middle of an SEO challenge on the term “napkin pirates”. This particular post is a test at the success of header tags in the boosting of rankings. Let’s begin.

Napkin Pirates and Header Tags

<-- Our H1 tag with a nice generic napkin pirates title.

Napkin Pirates Favorite Things

<-- An H2 tag in all its glory.

• Napkins
• Pirates

Napkin Pirates Disclaimer

<-- We would be remiss to overlook the H3 tag, so here it is.
There were no napkin pirates harmed in the writing of this post. It was simply an exercise in SEO and a test in the effectiveness of header tags on the ranking of a napkin pirates page.

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Just as an FYI, my domaining site (NameBait.com) has finally started reporting a Google PageRank (2). The website came online October 8, 2008 and today is the first day I have noticed the PageRank. It is three months later.

Just a note, although I have not had a PageRank on NameBait.com up until today Google has still crawled the site several times each day.

I wrote another post on NameBait.com that gives a couple examples as to what I am seeing with the weight domain names appear to be providing now in the Google SERPs. There is no need to repeat the post over here, so drop over there and take a look if you are interested.

Someone wrote an excellent blog post over at NameBait.com regarding the weight that domain names appear to be adding to a website’s search engine rankings. You may want to run over there and take a look!

It is no wonder Yahoo is the number two search engine in the world. Early in October I started a new website called NameBait.com. The purpose of this new site is to cover the world of domain names and my fascination with it.

I run a WordPress blog on that site and have set it up to generate and update an XML site map automatically with each new post. Once the site map has been updated, each of the major three search engines is pinged to let them know of the update. Google drops by within minutes, if not seconds, to take a look at the new site map and to index the new page(s). Yahoo on the other hand may go several days without stopping by.

I am aware of the whole sandbox concept and understand that we are talking about a brand new site. Keep in mind though that the sandbox is typically attributed to Google and yet they make the best effort to check out the new content. Thank you Google. It is clear to me why you are the number one search engine.

I will say one nice thing about Yahoo even though it is more of a backhanded compliment. Yahoo has at least come by the site. Even though they are always way behind Google, at least they still play in the game. MSN and Ask have not even been by yet this month (November). Nice work guys. Now I am not saying I have great content or that what I write is groundbreaking earthshattering stuff, but it is interesting that you can see why some companies lead and others follow. All that just by checking log files.

I just noticed this morning that PageRank updates have occurred for a couple of my sites. I just thought I would mention it in case anyone has been waiting on an update.

My updates.
ChildInsure.com - From 2 to 3
ChildInsure.com Blog - From 0 to 2
InfoBriefs.com - From 2 to 3
MySpaceLayoutDirectory.com - From 2 to 3
SmokinSevens.com - From 0 to 2

Thanks Google. I appreciate the love. Do you have any more where that came from?

Domain names are a key aspect of the SEO mix. As such, I have been digging in to the world of domaining lately and have started a new domaining blog at NameBait.com. Go check it out and see what you think.

I have been developing some awesome SEO resources at TechnologicalMarketing.com. The purpose of TechnologicalMarketing.com is to study the application of technology to marketing. This can include anything from Podcasting, SEO, AdWords, etc. Come on over to the site and join in on the effort.