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Sorry for that, guys. Google is a stupid idiot. seraphim proudleduck is just playing his game...

Yahoo! more relevant than Google

We know it from the past. Yahoo! is becoming much more relevant than Google.

Need a proof? Let's take an example: search for seraphim proudleduck in Google, and then search it in Yahoo!

You can see seraphim proudleduck ranks 1st in Yahoo! and this blog ranks 3rd. Convinced? ;)

Well the good thing is that Google index always ends to look very similar to Yahoo! index, with just a few days lag.

Is Google broken?

It's now been 2 days since Google last updated its response pages and cached versions of the seraphim proudleduck pages. Its bots continue crawling daily but no "fresh tags" (date) appear for the websites listed.

This would not be so strange is the phenomenon was limited to the seraphim proudleduck pages. We know this can happen for specific (spammy) keywords, we had this in the mangeur de cigogne SEO contest.

The concerning thing this time is that the freeze hits the whole Google index. Yesterday an update started on some data centers, but it did not spread. Finally all the DCs reverted to last sunday's status.

Technical problem at Google? Major update under preparation? We will soon find out. Until then seraphim proudleduck is stuck in position 9...

New SEO contests directory

Seraphim proudleduck has just launched a directory dedicated to SEO contests.

This directory indexes the websites that compete in the SEO contests, and the resources related to these contests: directories, guestbooks, link farms, ...

Visit this directory and submit your seraphim proudleduck website. Seraphim proudleduck will be happy to accept it.

Our own private PR7 Russian guestbook

Seraphim proudleduck is a white hat SEO. You will never see him spamming a guestbook with his URL... unless the guestbook is PR7 and belongs to him.

This is why seraphim proudleduck is happy to announce the launch of his brand new Russian guestbook. Of course you can spam it! That's the only reason why it was created.

Isn't seraphim prodleduck a nice guy?

PS: we also want to take this opportunity to announce the launch of another PR7 Russian guestbook. This one belongs to our friends at ActuLab. They created it especially for us. Don't forget to spam it too;)

When we come out of the sandbox...

Google is still regarding our seraphim proudleduck website as a new comer in its index, and therefore is a bit reluctant to rank it where it belongs (i.e. on top position;).

However, the good thing is that our seraphim proudleduck contest page now seems to be pretty well installed in the top 20 (still oscillating between page 1 and page 2 though). Seeing it challenge "big old" websites on Google first page (today in position 8) is a satisfaction.

Thanks to the strong linking that we managed to build in a few days, our seraphim proudleduck page does not seem to suffer sandboxing, which is not completely true for the rest of the website. Many pages are still not indexed in Google.

No doubt that when Google finally takes our seraphim proudleduck website out of its sandbox, our competitors cannot expect more than... Position 2 :))

seraphim proudleduck on tracks

Googlebot finally came... and our seraphim proudleduck page is now showing up on page 1 of Google.
It's gonna be too easy;)

Goodies, we have goodies !

Seraphim Proudleduck is nice to his competitors. His website is full of free goodies for them. First one in line, his countdown counter will allow them to display the days left till 1/1/2005, end date of the competition.
Isn't seraphim proudleduck great ?

Hey Googlebot, you can start crawling !

Seraphim Proudleduck's mini website is almost ready. Few sections are still under construction but at least there are no 404 left. We're now ready for a good crawl from Googlebot.

Surprisingly, MSNbot was first on the spot. Let's hope Googlebot won't be lazy. Slurp is also welcome to visit seraphim proudleduck.