SEO Tycoon

**MrCat** · 01-11-2008, 06:49 PM

.. for the keyword "targeted backlinks"! I'm just elated seeing a lot of hard work paying off

Our directory used to be #1 for "targeted links backs" but had second thoughts and instead wanted to rank number 1 on the other keyword which is more likely to be searched

This proves that forum sigs and forum posts have value in SERP.

Cheers!

**usearchme** · 01-12-2008, 05:35 AM

Congrats Mr cat

Woc

**chrishirst** · 01-12-2008, 06:03 AM

Only in your datacentre and, actually it proves very little.

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/miscel...tml#post525925

**MrCat** · 01-15-2008, 06:12 PM

Actually I was just experimenting on how forum posts affect SERP, particularly on titles of forum posts. Some forum post I made use to have the key phrase "targeted link backs" in the title - during the time we held the top position for that key phrase. I decided to change future title posts with "targeted backlinks" (which we never ranked for before) on the title to see if it will affect SERP. After a month, I saw that we were ranking #1 (sometimes #2) for the latter key phrase and lost ranking for the former.

So definitely, these are factors that affect SERP.

**mister-p** · 02-23-2008, 05:01 PM

Good job....