jimboot (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Which means, at the moment the bot doesn't seem to be taking meta data into account but I am sure it will. As the phrase is not competitive we didn't have to do anything for those rankings except publish the videos. If the phrase was more competitive I would be doing some strategic backlinking. I have not seen a text page rank as fast. Excepting Google news of course. Unless you have a link pig of a site, PR7 and above, I don't think you could rank as fast.We're piggy backing on giants basically

jimboot (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Hey mate. I was wondering if anyone would check that! We got those AOL non-english rankings about an hour after the team had the vids live on AOL. That tells me a couple of things. Firstly the Google bot is very active on AOL. Secondly Google is valuing video highly. What is weird is that it doesn't realise it's the same thing. But you are right, it is only a matter of time until the bot learns that the vids are the same.

HueyLewisRocks (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

On top of all that, you rank for all the foreign language versions on uncutvideo.aol and actually have 13 of the top 20 listings. wtg. How does this strategy compare for competitive keyword phrases?

HueyLewisRocks (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Also... I notice the following: 1. More than one AOL site listed. 2. Some entries have two listings and they're not the first and second ranking 3. The youtube version is no where to be seen.. 4. None of the vids have any views yet

HueyLewisRocks (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

At time of checking (less than 24 hours after you posted this vid) you have 8/10 on Google for the phrase "Whitegoods sale bankstown", you're right about video mate. Could you rank as fast with a text page you think? I think that it's only a matter of time before Google realise that the same vid can dominate the SERP with multiple returns and figure out a way to only allow one instance of it, what say you?