I am happy to announce that I have cracked the Google Code! That’s right, dear readers…it’s true.

As I write this, my little blog here is currently in the top 20 in Google for the term “Vista Problems”, and in the top 50 for “Windows Vista Problems”

In Yahoo, I have #34 for “Vista Problems”, and #27 for “Windows Vista Problems”.

In MSN, I’m #3 for “Vista Problems”, and I’m #2 for “Windows Vista Problems”.

In fact, almost all my organic search traffic this month is from these two terms…

…and to think I lost my page rank in the last update (yep! This is currently a PR0 blog!)

So, how did I do it? What sort of Search Engine magic did I sprinkle on this blog?

Geeze, I wish I knew.

Seriously.

Everything I know about search engine placement just got dumped out the window. According to everything I’ve been taught, everything I’ve learned, and everything I’ve experienced first-hand through my own testing, this should NOT have happened.

Let’s look at the facts:

- This is a relatively new blog… only 6 months old. Hardly a well-established “authority site”
- I have made no discussion whatsoever about Windows Vista, except for one little post on November 24th.
- That post had only 65 words in it.
- There are no inbound links to that page, except at Technorati.
- The post is not tagged with any of those words at Technorati.
- This blog has a PageRank of 0. Before the most recent update, it was 3 or 4… now it’s zero.

I make one little remark about Windows Vista (and title the post Windows Vista Problems), and a couple months later I’m getting bucketloads of traffic for a term I never optimized for and never wanted any traffic from.

Geeze - I’m ahead of Microsoft themselves for the term on their OWN search engine…

Well, I guess this means I am a real-life SEO expert now. I will gladly accept all the money you care to throw at me for helping you with your organic search listings. My minimum fee is $5000… results not guaranteed, of course. I must be worth at least that much. I’m more than happy to take screenshots of these results and provide them to you as proof of my “mad skillz”.

Ok, all joking aside. Windows Vista just launched, and there’s gonna be a ton of people who buy it in the next couple months, and those people are almost guaranteed to have problems. If any of you have a “troubleshooting Windows Vista problems” ebook or product that you’d like me to sell for you here, let me know.

I’d hate for all of this hard-earned organic traffic to go to waste