Scared to ask, but . . .

I am not new, just not real good with SEO, have had some successes and
some not success. My true failure is http://www.killhydrilla.com

My question is, did I read in an earlier post that posting your site
on a message board such as this helps its popularity?? If that is
the case, seems I would go around answering questions with my site
name.

Doesn't make sense to me, but in a way it does.

Thanks

"Billy Kilmer" <billykilmer (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote

I am not new, just not real good with SEO, have had some successes and
some not success. My true failure is http://www.killhydrilla.com

My question is, did I read in an earlier post that posting your site
on a message board such as this helps its popularity?? If that is
the case, seems I would go around answering questions with my site
name.

Doesn't make sense to me, but in a way it does.

Posting here probably won't help you in any way... since this is a newsgroup
and not a website forum

Basically the way it works is that the more links back to your site, the
higher your page rank (with Google, we're talking here)

So if you are reading a forum and it is indexed by Google (you can tell by
the toolbar) and post something with a link to your site, then that will
count as a link back to you the next time Google indexes that page.

That pretty much applies to anything on the net that you can post to... if
its indexed by Google and you make a posting with your link, you'll get the
link back to your site (forums, reviews, user comments, guestbooks, etc)

But, like I say, posting here really won't help you too much, since this
isn't indexed by google for the purpose of link popularity (it is indexed
for the groups.google.com site)... but in posting a link at the bottom of
your posts, you might get traffic/business/sales by people visiting it who
see it there... IE for your site you might start posting in relevant groups
to your site (fishing, boating, outdoor recreation, etc) and in your
signature you might have something like:

Thanks,

Billy
--
Problem with Hydrilla Weeds? Get my product at www.killhydrilla.com

and as people see your signature they might be inclined to click on it and
see what your site has to say and what you are selling

Clint

So if you are reading a forum and it is indexed by Google (you can tell by
the toolbar) and post something with a link to your site, then that will
count as a link back to you the next time Google indexes that page.

That pretty much applies to anything on the net that you can post to... if
its indexed by Google and you make a posting with your link, you'll get the
link back to your site (forums, reviews, user comments, guestbooks, etc)

By the way this group is being archived here:

http://www.searchguild.com/forum36.html


So signatures here will show up there and their home page is now up to
a PR5.

I often wonder if posting here can actual hurt you if someone decides
to turn you in for techniques they consider spam or if the folks over
at google look at these newsgroups and forums looking for SEO points
of view and decides hey dont like your post/site and decide to
penalize. Or maybe I'm paranoid, huh?

Tim

http://www.all-college-degrees.com/

Tim Arnold wrote:

By the way this group is being archived here:

http://www.searchguild.com/forum36.html

So signatures here will show up there and their home page is now up to
a PR5.

Hate to tell you but the posts themselves are on lower pr pages of pr3

like this one:
http://www.searchguild.com/tpage3272-0.html and not worth the effort.

So bottom line is I guess it does help to do that, just find sites
that have a higher pr
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Posted via http://www.searchguild.com/

vgo_2000 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com (Tim Arnold) wrote in news:2c80a852.0401052129.72473cb1
@posting.google.com:

I often wonder if posting here can actual hurt you if someone decides
to turn you in for techniques they consider spam or if the folks over
at google look at these newsgroups and forums looking for SEO points
of view and decides hey dont like your post/site and decide to
penalize. Or maybe I'm paranoid, huh?

More likely a competitor might see the post and report it.

A year or so ago I do remember seeing a particularly blatent amd misleading
example of spam posted (not here) as best practice, and I reported it to
google myself. All offending pages removed from database within a couple
of weeks.

Possibly coincidence. I understand that usually spam reports are more often
ignored than not, but have not tested this.

On Usenet it's always as well to post 'best practice' rather than 'what I
got away with once upon a Monday' if you can, whatever you are posting
about.

I have been posting here a fair while with no damage. YMMV.

Victoria
--
Clare Associates Ltd
http://www.clareassoc.co.uk/
01822 835802
--

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 10:33:05 GMT, Sam <. (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hate to tell you but the posts themselves are on lower pr pages of pr3
like this one:
http://www.searchguild.com/tpage3272-0.html and not worth the effort.

May not make a big difference to PR, but anchor text is still a big
plus.

From my posts here I get the following words (some important keywords)
boosted a small amount for the sites in the sig-

homepage ntlworld ooar123 search engine optimization seo help

bdsm lingerie

I'm fluctuating around the 15 -25th site for the SEO SERP and top 10
for many 'SEO Keyword' and 'Keyword SEO' SERPS.

A small part of which is due to these posts.

As soon as I put my new Lingerie site in my sig (added it for the
links) it got indexed by Google immediately and has number 1 for the
search bdsm lingerie shop (not high traffic, but a sign of what's to
come :-)).

This was before I changed all the links to pages I own to point to the
new site. So posting here got the site visited by google and will give
it a small boost long term.

So it's well worth adding a site or two to your sig, costs you nothing
after all.

David replace SP@AM with @ to email me direct.
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hire SEO Dave
http://www.bdsm-lingerie.com Sexy Lingerie and BDSM Products Shop

billykilmer (AT) mail-dot-com (DOT) no-spam.invalid (Billykilmer) wrote in message news:<5bcc6377f7a166b801e45c15a5017a54 (AT) news (DOT) teranews.com>...

So bottom line is I guess it does help to do that, just find sites
that have a higher pr
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Posted via http://www.searchguild.com/

I still think it is a good idea to post your link here because as I
tried to point out earlier searchguild.com has a PR5 and growing. Of
course the rest of the site has low PR but may get higher as time goes
on and then you wish you had taken the extra 3 seconds to put your
link in your signature.

Tim

http://ww.all-college-degrees.com/

On 5 Jan 2004 21:29:44 -0800, vgo_2000 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com (Tim Arnold) wrote:

....snip

I often wonder if posting here can actual hurt you if someone decides
to turn you in for techniques they consider spam or if the folks over
at google look at these newsgroups and forums looking for SEO points
of view and decides hey dont like your post/site and decide to
penalize. Or maybe I'm paranoid, huh?

Tim

Are you saying that if I post a comment and add my signature block

Tom Jones
www.google.com

I might actually get penalized?

If so, then www.google.com, www.google.com, www.google.com.

Will they penalize themselves now?

This newsgroup is also being archived here:

http://www.webfrustration.com/forumd...hp?forumid=111


Tim

http://ww.all-college-degrees.com/