On 9th July, http://www.dupuytren-online.info/index.html was number 92 on the Google ranking if you searched for 'dupuytren's'. Today, 14 July, it's number 42. That's an improvement of 50 places in less than a week!

Thanks to everyone who has posted links to help with this.

Let's see how much further we can move. Every link helps. Just one link from your home page or from a business you run could move us up another place on Google. (remember to include text with the link to say what the link is for)

Well done!

Thank you so much for the many detailed advices how to improve the ranking of our web site and - obviously - also for many new links to our web site!! A special thanks you goes to Judith who really digged into our web design and patiently educated me how to improve it. As TrevB already observed we have re-designed our web site for better readibility and also to meet expectations of Google & Co. Here acknowledgements go to Judith, Bruce, and Charles Eaton. We hope that too helps improving our ranking but as Hawk wrote "the key is to get links, followed by getting links, and most importantly, getting links."

Once again, thanks to all of you for helping to improve the visibility of our web site! Should you have a chance to link another web site to us, please do so!

Another interesting suggestion was to publish personal experience with Dupuytren's disease and its therapies as reports/stories. We will do that step by step in the next months. So there is more to come!

Wolfgang

We're probably doing a slightly different search. I've been repeating the exact same search as even changing it slightly can change the results a lot. I have us at number 28, but that's an improvement of 11 places from where I had us only yesterday!

Interestingly, we score a lot lower on 'Dupuytren's contracture' than we do on Dupuytren's. (we're still way down on page 8 or 9 for that, though we were on page 18 two weeks ago) That suggests to me that a lot of the links are only using the word Dupuytren's.

I bet your search is for Dupuytrens without an apostrophe. We come higher up on Google for that. Add the apostrophe and we're a page and a half further down.

Mind you, whatever search you do, you can still see an amazing amount of movement!

If I consider the keywords of our Google ad, the most important keywords are

1. Dupuytren's about 32 % - ad paused
2. Dupuytren's contracture about 30 % - ad is still active
3. Dupuytren about 9 % - ad paused
4. Dupuytrens about 6 % - ad paused
5. dupuytren's disease about 5.5 % - ad paused

I have paused most ads to save money.

Interesting results on our links: when we started Google reported 47 links. Now it found 117 links! That probably explains to the most extent why we got better ranked.

Wolfgang

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If I consider the keywords of our Google ad, the most important keywords are

1. Dupuytren's about 32 % - ad paused
2. Dupuytren's contracture about 30 % - ad is still active
3. Dupuytren about 9 % - ad paused
4. Dupuytrens about 6 % - ad paused
5. dupuytren's disease about 5.5 % - ad paused





This tells us that you definitely need to go through the site and make sure that you use the phrase Dupuytren's Contracture far more often. Replace most occurances of 'Dupuytren's' with 'Dupuytren's contracture' and replace most cases of morbius Dupuytren's with Dupuytren's contracture.

eg. If you look on the page for 'age distribution' then the only reference to Dupuytren's contacture is in a paper citation. Everywhere else on the page, it is Dupuytren's disease. (although the Google ranking for Dupuytren's disease is also poor at 97)