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SMF On Google - Ouch!

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Juvenall Wilson:

--- Quote from: groundup on August 03, 2003, 05:58:56 PM ---Juvie, the one thing that matters the most is backlinks from sites that are in the same description as this one. YSE, YaBB, and tons of other 'forum' related sites already link to here. Also, once the forum gets out there, there is automatically a link on every page. That means TONS of links and TONS of free promotion for it. The best keywords would probably be 'free forum', 'forum', 'message board', 'free message board', etc. Just get sites with high rankings for those keywords and we get tons of promotion and we will beat them out ;)

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Oh, no doubt. I think that in time, a search for "Simple Machines Forum" will point here on that alone. However, I'm not sure how high the ranking will be even then. That's why I made a point of posting this :). It's going to take some big SEO work to get the site up there. Even with linkings on script/forum sites, you're still dealing with a subject that has far more "credible" sources backing them up (i.e. Educational and government institutions getting twice the weight of anything else in the eyes of Google..more so if found on DMOZ). I'm not trying to be critical of the new name, don't get me wrong, I just wanted to bring it up :)

Also, keep in mind I have no concerns as to people finding this place. It'll  be a virtual meat farm in days..lol. It's just the designer in me looks at stuff like this as icing. I can't call a site or project for myself or a client a success until it has a top 3 ranking on all major search engines..lol :)


--- Quote ---lets clik afew times one the smilley on my google bar
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Google dosn't count any type of clicks either on it's toolbar or throught searches on it's site. :D

Ben_S:
But how many people are going to do a search for this forum with google?

That said a search for simple machines will be quite high due to the words being in the domain but does it really matter?

Joshua Dickerson:
google is the most used search engine, so I'd say a lot of people would find it like that ;)

Ben_S:
I would have though that people interested in using it would get the url from a board already using it. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Joshua Dickerson:
usually an enormous portion of a site's traffic comes from google. Especially on sites like this where it isn't a targetted niche, it is a wide spectrum of people and topics.

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