Over the weekend as I was looking at rankings and such, I noticed that MSH has obtained “authority” status from the Big G. Sites that are an authority in Google’s eyes are awarded what are known as “site links” within the natural search rankings. Here’s a screenshot:
An authority listing is a site that has gained a significant number of natural links, total number of daily searches relative to other sites in similar niches, and a good amount of “link juice” from those linking out.
Thanks to all who have wrote about, visited, commented on, and/or linked back to Med School Hell. Without you guys, obtaining authority status just isn’t possible.
What’s Coming Up?
I’m currently working on some new posts for MSH as well as a forum that should be live within another week or two. We have myself and one other moderator on board at the current time, but if anyone else would like to volunteer to moderate shoot me an email.
freaking awesome; can’t wait for the forum.
Congratulations. I also see that you have a Google pagerank of 5, higher than most other medical websites. For some reason, my blog used to have a pagerank of 4, but for some reason has been given a zero. Usually, Google gives a site a zero score if it’s a spam site. I have no idea what happened.
Thanks Half.
Page Rank is highly overrated and doesn’t correlate with traffic, so I wouldn’t worry about it. One thing I would recommend is to take your domain (halfmd.com) and set up your own site with a hosting provider instead of the redirect to the WordPress-hosted blog (halfmd.wordpress.com).
Once you do that, you can do a permanent 301 redirect from halfmd.wordpress.com to halfmd.com and not lose out on any link juice.
dude,
congrats. i want to be like you when i grow up
Congratulations! A Google Reader Top Recommendation sent me here. This site has a great domain name and content. I too survived med school hell and now I am in blogger heaven.