It’s time for the first week’s results from the vBSEO case study on HaloBoards.com and here are the numbers:

site:haloboards.com (Google) up 684 to 6,860

site:haloboards.com (Yahoo) up 96 to 10,605

site:haloboards.com (MSN) up 4 to 122

The first week in the study showed all three search engines getting positive numbers with Google coming up with the largest gain at an extra 684 results found on a site:haloboards.com search. I expect to see Google to move past Yahoo in the coming weeks, but for now Yahoo still holds the crown for the most results found. MSN (or Window’s Live) moved up only 4 results, but as I’ve seen in the other vBSEO case study on GamingVidz.com they still haven’t gotten out of the triple digits, so I don’t expect to see a lot happening with MSN if at all.

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