I am not a fan of the yahoo search engine, everything seems to be tailored towards url’s and domain age. When writing posts make sure your url’s are keyword rich and make sure you get links from authority sites with good PageRank. This seems to be the thing Yahoo favours the most.

Let me try and answer your query in two parts.

1 – A site’s performance has never been confirmed as part of the Google algorithm, there have been theories posted around the web (mostly back in 2007) but nothing concrete. Even Matt Cutts said a bounce rate and pageviews signal would be too “noisy” and open to abuse http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml. There have been a few pieces of research but nothing to prove a “site performance” signal. The authority source for Google ranking factors is at SEOmoz http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors. However if you know that Google ‘definitely’ uses this data as a signal, I’d like to know where you get the info from so I can check it out.

2 – I didn’t use Alexa for 2 reasons, one the data it collects is not proven to have an effect on rankings and two the results Alexa produces are unreliable. They are unreliable primarily due to the way they collect their data, it is collected through surfing practices of those who have the alexa toolbar or widget loaded on their site (which is a small percentage of web users). Even Alexa in their disclaimer state sites with “traffic rankings of 100,000 and above should be regarded as not reliable” this is a direct effect of the way data is collected.

So I didn’t use Alexa because it’s not reliable and their is no proof that site performance is a search ranking factor, using it would have added nothing to the test.

If you do know of any authority sites that have ‘proof’ of anything different I really would love to read it.

Thanks for your comment.

Do MMO niche only if you like it. Don’t scam anyone lol. I’m writing on what my findings are so I don’t BS anyone.

No problem,

Thats what getting top rankings is all about consistency and stamina. Just keep going track your progress and you will get there. The things that are worth it are never easy

Never attempted the make money niche, mainly because of all the scams associated with it. Maybe one day

Thanks for the heads up about the adsense! Yes, I don’t see any Adsense on Griz’s page.

You also have to know the 25,000 anchor texts consist of mostly crappy link juice.

Most of the people can’t beat him because they give up. I am here to stay!

Griz has been around a few years now, and we’ve had a few exchanges. If you want to beat him your going too need in excess of 25000 backlinks and a lot of anchors for “make money online”, but it’s possible.

If your monetizing with adsense don’t tell you readers how much your earning, this is against adsense polocies and they will be banned from your site. This is what happened to Griz’s blog I think. He can no longer have adsense on there.

Just a bit of friendly advice

I am competing against Grizzly’s MMO blog. I even e-mailed him about it lol. I recently launched a MMO blog so it’ll take a lot of hard work and time.

Anyways, I would say staying away from meta tags would be better idea. Not good to piss Google off!