Comments on: I love Love LOVE that ARDELL is winning…

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Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:11:19 +0000

[...] gets you much further in the blogiverse than being a jerk- because of her kind nature, people like Dustin Luther have linked to her in regards to Ardell DellaLoggia being the greatest real estate agent in the [...]

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:11:57 +0000

And Mike, even if we all started with empty URLs… some of us own domains that are loaded with google juice so it would still be unfair.

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:57:27 +0000

Mike,

To be “fair” no one should try to game the search engines. Just write.

By: Mike Brown

Mike Brown — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:41:59 +0000

Todd you said “The rules of the game are to show everyone else how you won. What will they do when Ardell tells them to. “write engaging content for two years, and impress the heck out of RE.net while you do it.””

So what you are saying is that Ardell has a two year head start on many of the newbie web based Realtors in this competition.

I think the whole thing would have been significantly more fair if everyone had to start with a new domain name and new hosting.

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:38:15 +0000

We’re #1 again. I found a “the” in my own link in the post and separated it out of the link. There. I learned something from the contest, so now I fit “the rules”

By: Todd Carpenter

Todd Carpenter — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:56:14 +0000

Ardell, both Dustin and I linked to that post with “the” right before the anchor text. Maybe Google sees that text, and it gives you just enough umph to become first.

It’s a pure guess on my part.

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:39:28 +0000

Hey Dustin,

How come if I put “The Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World”, I come up as #1, but when I drop the “the” I come up as #2?

There’s no “the” in my blog post title.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:49:38 +0000

Morgan: I do own Rain City Guide, so there is more than a little bit of self-interest in this post! Although Ardell definitely deserves full credit for writing something that is interesting enough to post about! (and not for the first time!)

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:47:56 +0000

Eric: The irony is palatable!

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