So here’s how the SEO Scotland tests are shaping up at one week in..

We want to repeat that we are just testing here, anyone who is actually looking for SEO help with their website, our recommendations of local companies are on the SEO Scotland page linked to just above here.

Scottish SEO tests at one week in..

The red squares are the initial serp “probe” blog posts, one of which has since been merged and redirected at the main “static” page (as opposed to blog posts) We’re still waiting for Google to recache the whole site to fully power up the main Scotland page, and follow the redirects, at which time it’ll be at full strength and we would normally  be able to assess if we needed to get any more links to it.

As it’s just a test and we don’t want Scottish SEO work (major corporations can maybe apply, but we’re pretty busy and can’t promise anything) we won’t be further linking at it externally, we think we probably have sufficient domain authority to cope with allintitle: readings of 2k ish over a little time.

Ok, so anybody who’s familiar with our WordPress SEO tips, and content creation in particular this is a “working post”.

The green boxes on the screenshot are the homepage, which as it ranks reasonably (#1 -  top 20′s dep on term) without “Scotland” – then of course just addition of the word on the page, especially when the word is a link to inner content, means more or less instant presence. In another week or two the blog posts will switch positions with the main page, maybe indent for a little while, and then fade away over the next few months, exactly like this.

It’s important to note that although WordPress is a potentially superior seo system, it doesn’t just do this on it’s own, it still needs to be structured,  set up and operated correctly to achieve these kinds of results.

Other SEO testing news..

New test site to launch this week:  www.ibizascooterhire.com – scooter hire in Ibiza.  – it’s a domain a local contact has agreed to buy once we’ve “incubated”  it for a little while, so may as well use it for some testing in the meantime?