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Yeah Matt is right they have been doing this for a while, they also change the description too sometimes.

You could post the originals on your main website first and then rewrite the articles and syndicate them on other sites for backlinks, Generally speaking I don't think its a good idea to post the same content to your own site and other sites, though if you really must do it make sure the article is indexed on your site first before you post it elsewhere.

Also please be aware that you probably wont just get just 1 backlink if you post to Ezine as a lot of people syndicate the articles it would probably lead to the article being posted in a lot of places so be careful with exact match anchor text and generally don't post the same content on Ezine and your main money site.

Hope that helps!

Yes you are correct with organic traffic this comes from organic searches and hits on your site, people entering the URL and going direct to your site is known as direct traffic, and then you have referral traffic which basically can come from any other site such as social referral, traffic from an app etc or even referrals from Google maps, shopping etc.

You could call organic / referral and direct all natural traffic if you was comparing it to fake traffic to your site or even search bot visits.

Hope that helps.

I thought this may be the case initially but its not as they have been ranking for a while now, also their backlink profile is not anchor text targeted.

The only real backlinks I can see for them is Groupon, is Google favouring sites featured on Groupon?

I am aware of other parts of Google's alg's though generally the above mentioned algs are required for a decent listing, location of your server does not make a huge difference and yes agreed with .co.uk making a difference but the site in question is not .co.uk its .com so that point is irrelevant.

The question is not about my clients site ranking higher but a site that ticks none of the major alg factors being number 1 for a big search term.

No optimised meta for target keyword, no optimised backlinks for target keyword, no onpage optimisation for target keyword and a low social metric score.

The only optimisation I can see is meta tags, which Google does not use any more and apparently can do more damage than good if you spam in them which technically this site is doing.

I have also ran the Moz onpage report card for the term Cheap Beds and they get an F! In comparison to the next site down who get a B.

The website is very relevant for the term my question I suppose is how does Google know its relevant without it being optimised?

I am thinking either LSI which doesn't make a lot of sense in this situation, or Google is actually doing some sought of price comparison and working out that their products are cheaper than elsewhere, or Google is actually taking their meta tags into consideration (Highly Unlikely!)

Any suggestions please?

Hi,

A client recently asked me abut a site that appears to have popped up out of nowhere and is ranking for big terms within their industry: http://bit.ly/11jcpky

I have looked at the site for a particular term: Cheap Beds I was using unpersonalised search on google.co.uk with location set to London.

The site currently ranks no 1 for that term and other similar terms.

The question is how?

SEO Moz reports no backlinks (they must have blocked?) Ahrefs and Majestic report report some backlinks but not many and no anchor text with the term in. The Page title and meta do not contain the term nor does the page seem to contain the term anywhere. The domain does have some age though has no keyword match in the URL. I'm a little stumped to how they are achieving these results.

Any Ideas Anyone?

Yes you are correct with organic traffic this comes from organic searches and hits on your site, people entering the URL and going direct to your site is known as direct traffic, and then you have referral traffic which basically can come from any other site such as social referral, traffic from an app etc or even referrals from Google maps, shopping etc.

You could call organic / referral and direct all natural traffic if you was comparing it to fake traffic to your site or even search bot visits.

Hope that helps.