There are many reasons why a page ranks well….good optimization, good content, and links.

But all 3 need to work together especially when trying to rank for a competive term like “ukraine cruises” on the Value Cruises website.

For some reason the main pages on Value Cruises have not been ranking.  They have good page rank and are somewhat optimized.  This quick little trick exposed why!

1) I simply took a chunk of text from the Value Cruises Ukraine Waterways Highlights page.

http://www.valuecruises.net/specific_prg_intro.aspx?prgid=299
2) I plugged that content into Google (in parenthaseis)
3) River.affordabletours.com ranks first Continue reading »