For seo experts only? Very interesting

[Cathy Olds]

Before G did their first big algo change (4 years ago?), our website was #1 for "mouse pads". Afterwards we took a huge dive and this site took #1 spot over and has maintained first page status ever since (title is "Mouse Pad Couch" #2 in G). Can anyone shed some light on this one? Check this out- www.rit.edu/~jpsdss/couch/

Thought this may be of some interest and I have been curious for some time.

Cathy
www.mousepadsonline.com

[cspelts]

You can compare your link popularity to theirs here:
http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/

It's a funny page so people link to it! Maybe you should fight fire with fire and create a page on your site with a Mouse Pad Couch AND Chair? Use your imagination and create a little viral marketing...

[timmathews.com]

Wow...
That is a TON of mousepads! I can't believe it...
Gee wiz... Well, thats a bored computer guy or gal for ya!
:)

[incrediblehelp]

LOL, pretty funny pic. This is something I would send to a friend or post on my website/blog with a link to it named "mouse page couch". Now think of all the others that have seen this page and probably thought to do the same thing as me, on their websites, blogs, forums, message boards and you start to get an idea of how many one-way backlinks they probably have from a couple viral pics. Hence the ranking for "mouse pad".

Also note your not ranking terribly, your at number #7 on my Google. Keep up the good work and you will continue to move up, but when your up against a viral web page like this it is tough.

[CreditFN]

The root of the webpage is a Univerisity with a PR of 8. Also, they probably do have a significant number of backlinks going to them.

You can take them on by examining your competitors that rank ahead of the mouse pad couch. Odds are the mouse pad couch will eventually slip from the listings.

[timmathews.com]

YEAH!
Thats what I was thinking too.
:|

[freetraff]

Amazing couch.

By the way, this is a good topic for press release, and surely add the photo. Never seen this before.

[greeneagle]

There are a number of "Wierd Couches" out there.

PR8s especially .edu's are going to rail. Students that pipe in there can do almost anything they want. We have raked this one out before.

We have also discussed the fact that as Sites mature through higher PR levels, they are granted certain privilages and immunities as "trusted" sites.
;)

Ken

[internet-marketing-cr]

That's the type of ideas we must think of creating. It's about thinking what can we do different from others and would make us unique.