As explained in a post last week, our Google rank for ‘Daegu’ has plummeted to the point of no longer being ranked, due to the growing size and structure of the big Daegu page. So, the page was moved to make way for a more SEO-friendly one. It looks like the move is bearing fruit, as we are now ranking at #11. Not a bad recovery from the ashes. We’ll have to see how it holds for the next month or so, before prescribing changes to tweak it to higher rank.

We’re getting sweet F all for rank on ‘Daegu’ searches on Google. That’s likely due to Daegu’s page being so big, and big pages are not search engine friendly. So, I’ve moved the big Daegu page to another URL, and have changed the previous one to something more smaller and optimized for SEO. We might see a rank appear for ‘Daegu’ once the Google bots come around again, but it’ll probably take 4-6 weeks for it to show consistently on SERPs.

The article on Sinchon was first created on March 17 and I’ve have been optimizing it for SEO for the past 2-3 weeks.

The parent article was picked up by Yahoo earlier on (currently ranking #3 for ’sinchon’, there), but didn’t show on Google’s SERP until this past week. It’s flipped a few times between #9 to #20 on a search for ’sinchon’, but it seems to be holding around #9. I suppose that’s not a bad opening for rank.

‘Sinchon restaurants’ and ‘restaurants in Sinchon’ rank on Google at #3 and #2, respectively. Actually, Galbijim Sinchon articles occupy 5 of the top 6 search results for ‘restaurants in Sinchon’, so that says something about the value of content saturation.

‘Bars in Sinchon’ and ‘Sinchon bars’ is ranking #1.

I’ll continue to optimize ‘Sinchon’ over the next month or so. Good practice before moving into article optimization for other areas, as well as the financially vital optimization needed for MyESLJob’s blog that is coming soon.

One thing that I’m currently doing now and will continue to do, is SEO optimization for Galbijim and MyESLJob. An area of focus of late has been developing more content for Sinchon and Hongdae, and I’ll be in Itaewon and Haebangchon this weekend, to gather more on that area.

But for now, I’m taking a time out to see how we are ranking in certain areas:

Hongdae. (Our wiki is ranked #3 for ‘Hongdae’ on Google; #1 on Yahoo)
Hongdae bars. (#19 on Google; #5 on Yahoo)
Hongdae clubs. (#10 on Google; #1 on Yahoo)
Hongdae restaurants. (#4 on Google; #1 on Yahoo)

Of course, there are a lot more keywords that I can run for Hongdae, but this shows a good start, considering we haven’t done much serious work yet on Hongdae and have done no SEO or link-building. Same as Itaewon.

Itaewon. (#7 on Google; #2 on Yahoo)
Itaewon bars. (#5 on Google; #2 on Yahoo)
Itaewon clubs. (#7 on Google; #14 on Yahoo)
Itaewon restaurants. (#4 on Google; #7 on Yahoo)

Sinchon. (#13 on Google; #8 on Yahoo)
Sinchon bars. (#1 on Google; #2 on Yahoo)
Sinchon clubs. (#3 on Google; #5 on Yahoo)
Sinchon restaurants. (#4 on Google; #2 on Yahoo)

Haebangchon. (#6 on Google; #1 on Yahoo)
Haebangchon bars. (#2 on Google; #1 on Yahoo)
Haebangchon clubs. (#12 on Google; #2 on Yahoo)
Haebangchon restaurants. (#1 on Google; #1 on Yahoo)