Test infographic

by oskarokupa on August 3, 2010

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It is interesting to see that once links mature and get some traction the results in terms of rankings sky rocket.

Yahoo Site Explorer identifies 20 links (followed and nofollowed) to the page with no content that was trying to rank for Davide Corradi , that and the trackbacks from my blog comments links plus Davide’s posts generously pointing to the page, seem to be enough to make the page rank.

A couple of screenshots:

First in Google.com for Davide Corradi
First in Google.com for Davide Corradi

These rankings come from a Google Chrome browser with personalization turned off (incognito window) and not from my computer so personalized search cannot kick in.

It looks like link maturity is an important factor for Google rankings.

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