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How To Get Googled, By Hook Or By Crook
Mr. Christmas Lights continues: "So some folks in the SEO community decided to have a 2 month contest where they made up a nonsense keyword phrase (nigritude ultramarine), and they will award a iPod and a 17" LCD (big spenders, eh?) to whoever ends up #1 in Google a month and two months from now - read more contest details at Dark Blue's SEOChallenge and follow the progress at www.seochallenge.com.
As you can imagine, there will be all sorts of wild web pages out there - for example, take a look at this "optimized" URL for nigritude ultramarine : www.nigritude-ultramarine.com/nigritude-ultramarin e/nigritude-ultramarine.asp and I'm sure there will be plenty of other entertaining entries - you can do a Google Search yourself to see who's currently on top.
Note to Slashdot Editors: I have NOT entered the contest - buncha SEO pro's are involved and a hobbiest (at best) like me (who doesn't stray over to the dark side - I like Google! ;-) would get spanked."
This should be obligatory reading, followed by this . It's amazing how many people are paying search engine optimizers to tell them what these links says.
The main secret is to search for a certain phrase, and then analyse the top results. This tells you things such as if the phrase boldened up to 3 times in the page helps, but maybe, for example, if it is boldened more than 3 times, it isn't counted so effectively. The title, the META tags, the page, H1-5 tags, bold etc, all count. But you have to work out how many you can put before Google thinks you're just trying to boost your ratings.
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Remember, the link has to SAY nigritude ultramarine ;^)
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
If enough people link to it with that as a link text, that should work
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A better link would be nigritude ultramarine. Your's would just link the keyword "here" with the article.
and I'm the second result. There's no secret for getting ranked high when your web-site doesn't suck. You just let Google do its thing.
"DirectX SDKs" and I'm on the first page of results. Although it's going to the Distribution section (pay per CD) instead of the SDK download section which is free access.
"Digital Black Market" also gets me a spot in the top 20. I used to be ranked higher on that one.
Before the site wide overhaul I was ranked 2nd when searching for "Driver Library" but if you're looking for a specific file and I have it, I'll get a top ranking.
Google is currently reindexing my site. It'll probably be another month or so before everything is indexed as well as it was before. Last check there was about a half a million files on the web-site.
Domain, directory, file name, content is about the general chain of importance for getting a high ranking.
Ben
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But only after the page is moved off of the dynamic content area.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
"Now they need a contest on how to get delisted, I still have a domain name that hasn't been used in 3 years that is in google."
If you want to get removed, Google has some information on how.
it's because of people like them that google sucks more each day. let them burn in hell.
So get it removed.
1) make a web page.
2) get people to link to it, with the query words in the link.
3) lots of people.
For example, google for "monkeys".
Top hit: bdmonkeys.net (my band)
Now if you look at that page, "monkeys" only shows up FOUR times in the source: the page name, the meta keyword, an IMG ALT tag, and the email.
Now google for "battle cry".
Top hit: the blog meme Chaz wrote that LINKS TO OUR SITE WITH THE WORD "MONKEYS".
561823649174 bloggers linking to you = top google position.
nigritude: Blackness; the state of being black.
The running gag on Ernie now is the comic strip.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
if yahoo is still listing stuff thats gone 404 long since, make sure your webserver is returning 404 in its http headers, some servers that use customised 404 pages or configured incorrectly return a 200 page found or redirect with a 302 status instead of the correct 404,
what this means is the SE bot checks the status of the link and as it didnt get a 404 it presumes the links still valid and so doesnt remove it from the db
It's an archaic term for "the state of being black". It's an odd choice, and you could draw all sorts of inferences based on our society's connections between "black" and the concepts of "profit", "evil", "African", "ink", and even "smithee". But sometimes and odd word is just an odd word.
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Anybody else notice the Sponsored Link next to the results? Looks like someone is trying to buy their way up the list.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
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