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  Andy Beard

  1 year ago

  You received some useful anchor text links from my list of sites hit with a penalty, and that page itself is quite strong now.
  It isn't such a competitive term that a few strong links can't have a dramatic effect.
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  Andy Beard

  1 year ago

  Hmm, that being said, you are only 11th here :)
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  Vlad

  1 year ago

  Interesting, still 5th here.....
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  Vlad

  1 year ago

  Is ti possible that Google is serving different SERPS in different countries?
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  Andy Beard

  1 year ago

  They serve different SERPs all the time from different datacentres, thus what you are seeing might be what is going to happen, or what may happen in the future, or due to local or personalized results.
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  Joyce Babu

  1 year ago

  Since you have the most confusing domain name I have ever seen, I googled for vlad the affiliate. And it was only after hitting the search button I remembered about your experiment and I too was surprised to see that you are still #1 for that keyword.
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  Vlad

  1 year ago

  I use to have #1 for "vlad the affiliate" for quiet some time even before the experiment.
  
  So when I let the googlebot back I am not that surprised to regain that place.
  
  I am am surprised that I rank for some other more competitive results better.
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  Joyce Babu

  1 year ago

  I didn't knew that you are now allowing googlebot to index your blog.
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  Josh Spaulding

  1 year ago

  It's back down to #9 here, but I know you got some pretty strong links from Andy and several from myself and a few others (oviously not as strong, but decent.)
  
  You'll get it eventually :)
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  Vlad

  1 year ago

  Josh,
  
  I can't keep up with your comments lol.
  
  I am no longer worried about this. "Vlad" is not a profitable keyword as far as I am concerned.
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