Ozarks Vacation Rentals, Jack-Assery, & Baseball

Finally, the Lake of the Ozarks Vacation Rentals page has been indexed and appears in the results. Not for the term “vacation rentals” or having anything to do with the Ozarks, but rather for the term “lake-of-the-ozark.com.”

Interestingly, the top page for the “lake of the ozarks vacation rentals” phrase continues to be the test page coming in around 190th (I heard that chuckle … back off), up from 230th ten days ago. The analytical part of me would very much like to keep track of all the quantitative jazz (number of links, external domains, pages indexed, SEOmoz grading of on-page elements, SER placement, etc.) and run a regression analysis to determine the effect of each of these elements. Better yet, this same part of me is interested in allowing webmasters to submit their own data, thus largely increasing the sample size, and then running the analysis. Interesting and probably worthwhile, but not worthwhile relative to this Lake of the Ozarks venture.

Tangential to this conversation is the lack of external linkage to this site. Sure, I bribed my wife into adding me to the footer of her jack-assery and pseudo-vegetarian blogs, but that’s about it. It doesn’t help that this thing is still in the dark, but it also doesn’t help that I’ve not made it a priority. I’ve found a few places to create back-links, and I’ve even found a couple of sites whose content is pretty darn good and deserve a shout-out (there’ll be dedicated posts for these, but here’s a quick preview: www.lakehistory.info … nice work, Mr. Gillespie). But there’s a big difference between research/analysis and execution, and I need to be moving into execution mode.

It’s Saturday, going to hit 77 degrees today, and I’m off to a college baseball game. Not quite coving out in the Lake of the Ozarks State Park, floating about with some new friends, and enjoying a cold one, but it’s still an awfully damn good way to spend a day.