Just thinking out loud here, not complaining or criticizing, just thinking:
When I Google the words "Northeast Los Angeles", my blog Nelalive.net comes up on page 1, position 3. Positions 1 and 2 are occupied by a public service community info site, which is OK by me.
My sponsored Localism community "Northeast Los Angeles" comes up on page 2 of the Google search, position 7. (Right above a Squidoo lens for NELA I made back in 2006 :-) )
Wondering what it will take, how long it will take for the Localism community to move up to page 1 of Google.
To give it a little nudge, which may or may not do any good, I took the URL of the Localism community http://localism.com/ca/highland_park/northeast_los_angeles and submitted it to Google's "Add your URL to Google" page. Can't hurt.
If anyone else wants to do this for their own Localism communities:
Add URL to Google here: http://www.google.com/addurl/
Add URL to Yahoo here: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
UPDATE 9/24/2009: Today, Localism is on page one of the Google results, near the bottom, but still page one http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4DKUS_enUS273US273&q=northeast+los+angeles
Cheryl: Well since the sponsored communities are a "paid service" by AR. I would think this would be something that we should ask the AR folks to get working on. I have not sponsored any communities yet, because no one has told me what return I get on my monthly investment.
Thanks for the links!
Thanks we will try it can't hurt. Anything to increase our visibility.
Cheryl- I know that my Localism isn't as prominent as my AR Blog. However someone else on here theirs is right on page 1 doing very nicely......I was told my keywords weren't strong enough, not sure but worth it to work on them. Just like your link here...might help, and might not :)
UPDATE 9/24/2009: Today, Localism is on page one of the Google results, near the bottom, but still page one
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4DKUS_enUS273US273&q=northeast+los+angeles
Thank you for sharing about this interesting subject, I can't wait to see the result of localism
Aloha
Stephanie
I had forgotten about this, so I submitted two of my sites to both. Thanks!