SEO links & discussion boards..

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borderfox

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If a website has a link on a post in a discussion forum thread (could that assist in the ranking of the website?
The reason I ask being that I have just crunched in a couple of keywords and a forum thread has got a third place listing. However, when I check its google PR rank - its displaying 0/10. Does google disregard discussion forum threads?
 
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Redfly

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Google Pagerank has nothing to do with how a site ranks for a given keyword. Well, almost nothing.

And how would Google know if a page is a forum thread?


(And welcome to the forum)
 
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borderfox

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redflystudios said:
Google Pagerank has nothing to do with how a site ranks for a given keyword. Well, almost nothing.
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Someone had recommended this to me as an intro to SEO for an amateur like myself. It seemed to suggest the above...?

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And how would Google know if a page is a forum thread?
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I have no idea! So I suppose that means it doesn't then.:)


But back to the crux of my initial posting. If I am trying to optimise my site with a particular keyword in mind - and I post a link on a forum thread that ranks highly on this keyword search - will this contribute towards my ranking in any way?
 
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RedCardinal

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As a little aside, the pagerank we see in the toolbar (or any online tool) is only a snapshot that Google released. The current (last) toolbar PR export was a snapshot taken around the end of July. Google uses a constantly updating internal pagerank that we don't know and cannot see.
 
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Arch-Stanton

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borderfox said:
Someone had recommended this to me as an intro to SEO for an amateur like myself. It seemed to suggest the above...?
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Yes, it was probably me who recommended that ebook and the reason I recommend it is because I have used many of the principles myself and have had success getting to page 1 on google for certain keyword strings with a number of sites.

With regard to PR (pagerank) this is the importance google places on that page, the real trick and what you should be concentrating on is SERPS (search engine result pages)

The ebook explains how to (on site and off site) optimize your web pages.

Back to your question, why not use your sig on this forum as a link to your site.
Notice the way redflystudios ,redcardinal and myself are using anchor text and links in the sigs of this thread

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borderfox

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RedCardinal said:
As a little aside, the pagerank we see in the toolbar (or any online tool) is only a snapshot that Google released. The current (last) toolbar PR export was a snapshot taken around the end of July. Google uses a constantly updating internal pagerank that we don't know and cannot see.
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Glad you posted as I wasnt aware of that from the initial bit of reading i've done on the subject so far.

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Yes, it was probably me who recommended that ebook and the reason I recommend it is because I have used many of the principles myself and have had success getting to page 1 on google for certain keyword strings with a number of sites.
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Thats right - and i'm grateful for it. Its a very easy read - although have only got a few chapters in so far 'cos of work schedule this week.

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what you should be concentrating on is SERPS (search engine result pages)
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Ok, will check that out.
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Back to your question, why not use your sig on this forum as a link to your site.
Notice the way redflystudios ,redcardinal and myself are using anchor text and links in the sigs of this thread
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Excellent. As a newbie approaching the subject, I've been unsure of the logic search engines use to rank sites but will now follow this suggestion.
 
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Arch-Stanton

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borderfox said:
Excellent. As a newbie approaching the subject, I've been unsure of the logic search engines use to rank sites but will now follow this suggestion.
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Can I add one more thing (maybe something you don't want to hear), to achieve a decent result on search engines takes a fair bit of work and be patient, it wont happen over night.

You will also come across a lot of "quick fixes" (most are crap) but at the end of the day if you build decent pages and get lots of links in to your site, it will get there eventually.

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Damien

That's a very valid point.

The web is cluttered with sites, articles, companies, consultants etc., promising all sorts of crazy things.

They tend to ignore the amount of effort involved

I have several sites that have a good PR and excellent SERPS, but it didn't happen overnight. I had to work hard at it

Michele
 
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borderfox

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blacknight said:
Though only active members get the benefit of the links from here ... (search the forum to discover more :) )
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Did search the forum and the thread related to this suggests that conditional sig's are based on a minimum number of sigs? Just curious as to what this is set at ?(and no, i wont start posting a load of cráp!:D ).
Also, in general, is it possible to determine if a forum is implementing this?
 
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onlinebiz

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I think you need bulid many links before you see the effect you hope.
Because the PR of the webpage of a thread is very low,a few doesn't make no sense.
 
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RedCardinal

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vajeesh said:
Hi,
How can I rank these pages on google, yahoo and msn etc.
links are following:


+http://pakistanbusinessdirectory.org"]Pakistan Business Link | +http://1pakistangifts.com"]1 Pakistan Gifts

Thank you,
Vajeesh Partab Dhanja
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Where's the report spam link gone?
 
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CiaranR

Weeno Ltd + Skimlinks.com
It's this
, it's on the top right of every post.
 
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vijay

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i would like to know that is the process of making keyword as ur signature inside ur message in discussion forum is called the process of link building or it is the other.
 
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Toiletroll

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Arch-Stanton said:
Yes, it was probably me who recommended that ebook and the reason I recommend it is because I have used many of the principles myself and have had success getting to page 1 on google for certain keyword strings with a number of sites.

With regard to PR (pagerank) this is the importance google places on that page, the real trick and what you should be concentrating on is SERPS (search engine result pages)

The ebook explains how to (on site and off site) optimize your web pages.

Back to your question, why not use your sig on this forum as a link to your site.
Notice the way redflystudios ,redcardinal and myself are using anchor text and links in the sigs of this thread

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Great idea, thanks :)
 
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kimrennin

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PageRank is a way of measuring the importance of a web site. PageRank in itself does not determine placement in the Search Engines, but is does effect overall Popularity and Traffic to a web site. The more incoming links to your web site the higher the PageRank, the more the Traffic.


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