SMF On Google - Ouch!

Started by Juvenall Wilson, August 03, 2003, 05:46:04 PM

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Juvenall Wilson

Man, it's gonna be a tough pull to get SMF listed on some of the major search engines..lol

Here are three search results/links from Google -

simple machines - 2,430,000

"simple machines" -  57,800

simple machines forum -  419,000

Talk about an uphill battle! :o I've done some tough SEO work for clients before, but nothing in this ball park..lol

:'(

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Co-Founder of SMF

David

Remember how you found it, typing in the url.  We will be found, I don't see that as a problem.
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Haase

How many days has the site been "officially" out, and there's already over 200 members and over 1600 posts.

Three words:  "Word of Mouth"
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Jeff Lewis

I think we've been open a day now :)
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Joshua Dickerson

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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Overseer

I'll be sure to pimp the name on my board and on my sister news site once it opens.. might swing a few more wannabe seer's this way :)

(i say that.. coz i've had people in the past trying to 'bite' my style... lol...)

Acf

lets clik afew times one the smilley on my google bar :P
Sigh...

Joshua Dickerson

from my experience, it doesn't do anything.
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Overseer

lol I just turned them on anyways.. never had that option on before...  now my view on the world will effect all of you!.. mwaahhahahahaa

errr.... hehe




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 ;)

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 :)

Quotelets clik afew times one the smilley on my google bar

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?
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Joshua Dickerson

google is the most used search engine, so I'd say a lot of people would find it like that ;)
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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.
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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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Spaceman-Spiff

* Spaceman-Spiff changes all of his yse.org link to sm.org
hope it will help bring SMF up in google search...

Tom

I don't think it really matters since there's a link on every forum.  ::)

Joshua Dickerson

wait a week or so and googe will get around to putting it up. it doesn't even have a pagerank yet so it isn't in the search engines.
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Juvenall Wilson

Quote from: Ben_S on August 03, 2003, 06:54:20 PMThat said a search for simple machines will be quite high due to the words being in the domain but does it really matter?

It used to, but then Google got smart and starting ignoreing things like that because people were using site names as a way to trick people into going to porn sites (for example). Google also ignores most of the meta tags in a page AND if you're page has the same term on it more times then Google seems fit, it can blacklist your page. So say you have a 4k page, there's no reason for the term "Simple Machines" to turn up on it 90+ times (just as an example).

Joshua Dickerson

Juvie, just the opposite. One of the biggest factors is your url.
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