Another chapter on Search Engine Optimization and speed ranking on Google. Just an example of how web content optimization, and some web 2.0 cross posting may help your site to rank among the first results among millions in a very short time.

Music has the power

Lately I've attended two music festivals in Barcelona, Spain. The Primavera Sound and Sonar, there I saw a couple of bands, among the others Sonic Youth, White Stripes, Blonde Redhead, Modest Mouse, Beastie Boys, Patty Smith, and took some pictures of their shows.

I made a blog post for each of the show I've attended, adding some pictures with the link to the full photo set posted on Flickr. In a couple of days, really between 2 and 3 days, I ranked among the top 10 results in all searches relevant to either the festival, or the band, in various combination of searches.

No magic involved

It's not a matter of any magic trick, just the correct use of tags, and headings together with alt texts for the pics and title attributes for the link. The posts have been signaled to digg and Stumble Upon. The post itself was sometimes detailing the show, sometimes just a couple of lines. Following a list of search strings together with the rank and the relevant link. (Warning: ranking is always changing, one day you are on top, the day after you are history, bear this in mind if some of the ranking do not correspond).

• eric judy: 7th among 1,440,000 results
• sonar 2007 pictures 2nd among 1,320,000 results
• white stripes live 2007 4th among 1,850,000 results
• primavera sound 2007 13th and 14th among 1,490,000 results
• primavera sound 18th among 1,160,000 results
• sonar 2007 photos 4th among 1,640,000 results
• sonic youth performing daydream nation 1st among 103,000 results
• primavera sound pictures 1st and 2nd among 517,000 results
• sonic youth daydream nation live 1st among 306,000 results
• daydream nation live 1st among 839,000 results
• sonic youth primavera 2nd among 238,000 results
• primavera sound 2007 photos 1st and 2nd among 921,000 results
• modest mouse primavera sound 1st and 2nd among 136,000 results
• the white stripes live pics 4th among 1,420,000 results
• sonic youth primavera review 1st (and second the digg link) among 48,400 results
• sonic youth daydream nation tour 3rd among 219,000 results
• modest-mouse+live+pics 1st and 2nd among 986,000 results
• white stripes pics 18th among 1,540,000 results
• johnny marr pics 7th among 190,000 results