Michael Jackson Dead SEO Results - Best Blogs Asia
A look at how instant news shows up in SEO results, using the “Michael Jackson Dead” search.
It’s a bit tacky to showcase a SEO Results test based on Michael Jackson being dead but this is one of the biggest news stories this year, if not this century so it’s worthwhile to find out how sites will rank with SEO results.
Michael Jackson Dead
Everyone knows about Michael, so there’s no point to showcase what he did. At this point in time the internet is going crazy since people are trying to find out how he died, where he was and what he did.
It’s also surprising that people are searching for “Micheal Jackson” rather than “Michael Jackson” so you’d think after all these years they’d get the name right! Results are in Asia Pacific times on 25th July 2009.
09:36 SEO Results
News is at the top of the page with actual results from NJ.com and WCPO.com getting listed.
The Onion is top listed after a 2005 “corpse article” was posted, Hoax-Slayer.com also posted an old article, whilst TMZ is coming up the page with a relevant article.
Note the URL setup for both “Dead” “Death” and “Dies”l – www.tmz.com/…/michael-jackson-dies-death-dead-cardiac-arrest/
10:36 SEO Results
Postcronical.com and theaustralian.news.com.au are being ranked in the news results. I think Google News is about 3 hours behind.
The bottom 3 searches are still the same, I predict TMZ will be #1.
15:36 SEO Results
News is still at the top with links from whereilive.com.au (how come so many Australian sites?) and Examiner.com.
MSN is now Number 1 with “Singer Michael Jackson dead at 50”, notice this is the first site with “Michael Jackson dead” in it…
TMZ in Number 2 and The Onion old article is still listed.
Conclusion
Seems old sites can still rank in the top 10 after a big news story breaks. Google lets News always rank first, even though it is many hours behind. Also, new articles from established sites can rank very quickly. So it seems, if you’ve got an established site, write an article about a breaking story (being careful with your keywords and url structure) and you’ll rank in Google. Old sites still rank for new keyword searches too.
4 Replies:
I will surely miss Michael Jackson, he is really worthy of the name King of Pop and he is certainly one of the greatest musicians of all time.
Good Job for SEO! Instead this is one of the good tactics for blog writing, writing something related buzz in the first available time, can attract many free traffics.
Yeah you’re right, but it’s how quickly you can write a story and you’ll get ranked quickly.