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That exact phrase is also in the first paragraph, the page heading, and in the url. The conclusion that it's the page title that has caused it to rank so well doesn't seem accurate. If anything I'd say that it's a combination of the exact phrase being in all 4 places.
Not to mention visualwebsiteoptimizer.com has a pagerank of 4.
"My guess is that Google is factoring in high page rank of the blog and then if title matches it ranks the post highly"
That exact phrase is also in the first paragraph, the page heading, and in the url. The conclusion that it's the page title that has caused it to rank so well doesn't seem accurate. If anything I'd say that it's a combination of the exact phrase being in all 4 places.
Did he turn off personalized search with the pws=0 parameter?
This is absolutely due to the freshness of the post. In fact, it’s already at spot #4 in my results. It is common knowledge that Google pushes up recent posts and slowly sinks them to where they belong after some time.
That exact phrase is also in the first paragraph, the page heading, and in the url. The conclusion that it's the page title that has caused it to rank so well doesn't seem accurate. If anything I'd say that it's a combination of the exact phrase being in all 4 places.
But I'd still maintain title is important. For example, our homepage http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ is ranked #2 or #3 for terms 'a/b testing software', 'a/b testing tool'. If title would have been just Visual Website Optimizer, do you think we would have ranked for those terms?
I really just wanted to point out that the article wasn't 'Proof of how important website titles are for SEO', as there are other elements on that page that could have been just as responsible for the ranking.
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But I'd still maintain title is important. For example, our homepage http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ is ranked #2 or #3 for terms 'a/b testing software', 'a/b testing tool'. If title would have been just Visual Website Optimizer, do you think we would have ranked for those terms?
Absolutely, but it's just one piece of a bigger SEO puzzle. The more pieces you figure out, the higher you'll rank. I really just wanted to point out that the article wasn't 'Proof of how important website titles are for SEO', as there are other elements on that page that could have been just as responsible for the ranking.
It's notable that 'free' and 'free gift' are alleged "stop words", too. I've seen a lot of confusion about that concept in certain communities; some people think that merely including "stop words" will cause serious dinging in search rankings.
Your article is talking about correlation, not causation. Where's the 'proof'?
I'd say you're just trying to milk the controversy around John's article. Nothing wrong in that had you provided an insightful article.