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StephenD
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StephenD
Senior Member
Australia
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 Posted - 07 August 2005 : 19:38:44
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| I'm going to strip out all the metatags too which seem to be a waste of time and according to everything I read. |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 August 2005 : 07:32:05
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| metatags were a great idea abused by greedy pay-per-click merchants...not unlike SMTP/email, but we don't have a choice about email yet... |
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Ghostnetworks
New Member
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Posted - 09 August 2005 : 05:54:22
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Why don't you add it to your "Cool Links" in your preferences on this forum?
So far, those links are restricted to this thread only.
This board gets tons of traffic and your personal profile will be linked on every post you've ever made.
I actually managed to get a site listed a while back that way. |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
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Posted - 09 August 2005 : 05:57:30
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But Googlebot would not be to access his profile as it's not a member 
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 Search is your friend
“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the
fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had
taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.” |
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StephenD
Senior Member
Australia
1044 Posts |
Posted - 09 August 2005 : 06:06:14
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You mean in my Sig? I can do that ...  |
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Ghostnetworks
New Member
95 Posts |
Posted - 09 August 2005 : 06:28:55
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LOL there we go!
It's too bad this board doesn't allow profile views like a lot of others.
Free search engine billboard  |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 09 August 2005 : 06:34:20
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Maybe we should set up an account for a Mr Google Bot ;-)
just a thought, the 404 redirects could actually work against you if the bot/ranking engine notices they're artificially generated traffic and not from a context-related link...who knows? Certainly not me, but I do know the only value a search business has is the quality and relevence of it's ranking, so beware of getting sandboxed! |
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StephenD
Senior Member
Australia
1044 Posts |
Posted - 09 August 2005 : 07:50:08
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| Ok, metatags are gone, Shadownetworks, thank you for your assistance but if you could please stop redirecting your 404 traffic for the time being at least. I really appreciate all your advice and help guys. I'm going to give it another 5 weeks and then all bets are off...I'll turn the mail server into a spam engine if I have to!! |
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Ghostnetworks
New Member
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Posted - 11 August 2005 : 11:25:23
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You're welcome.
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Originally posted by StephenD
Shadownetworks
Dang! I should have taken up that name instead 
Oh well, I guess I'm stuck with what I have now.
Okie, the redirects have been taken down. You shouldn't be getting any more traffic from 404/401s.
edit_
You know that redirect was probably a bad idea...
Last I checked, I get several thousand 404 hits a month and I don't know how that affected your traffic stats.
There are a lot of users that move files/directories around and its very difficult to coordinate user files because of this.
edit, edit_
Woah...
There's already another "StaffCheck" listed. And first list too.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=staffcheck
This could complicate things a bit. |
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StephenD
Senior Member
Australia
1044 Posts |
Posted - 20 August 2005 : 01:49:33
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| Well finally Google listed the site yesterday. Middle of the page for worldwide searches of "Staff Check" or "Staffcheck" and top of the list for searches in Australia only. Fantastic! Thanks to everyone who helped and offered advice. |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 22 August 2005 : 03:28:55
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Woohoo!! Bit of a rush when you're finally 'real', isn't it!
Nice one mate, congratulations :D |
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Doughnut
Starting Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 March 2006 : 06:09:53
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Ello,
Looks like some really useful stuff here, I'll have a good look through the resources mentioned....
Does anyone know if these site submission people are of any use, you know the ones that tell you they can get your site top listed in the major search engines for whatever fee they charge?
As well as my own site I run a tiny one for a local shop and feel I'm letting em down with the poor search engine rankings, is it better to just check out all the info here or has anyone found that these submission firms work?
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