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BJR
Joined: 31 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject: The silence.......explained |
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hello to all out there, just thought i'd swing by and let you know why i've been so quiet over the past wee while and with some of the recent threads abouts mods etc it seems appropriate. For some time now i have been regularly emailing dc.com to ask if they could change the username on my account so to stop it appearing before my personal site on some search engines, unfortunately after numerous attempts to do this, dc.com has failed to respond to any of my emails as has kevin to personal messages, therefore as much as i enjoy the forum i will no longer be participating in any of the discussions and have replaced the majority of my posts with "message removed" or similar.
And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, Ill say it clear,
Ill state my case, of which Im certain.....
Slange! |
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Kevin
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Joined: 13 Apr 2004
Posts: 1095
Location: Eugene, Oregon
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Sorry about the inconvenience, barireid, or BJR. It does look like you wrote to DesignCommunity support in mid-May, June, and August, and every one of those messages absolutely should have been picked up at our end. For the record, I have no evidence that you have ever emailed me directly about this. I do see one note to me with a question about this, back in May, using the (perhaps sadly vestigial) internal messaging function here at the forums. Sorry I missed that one.
Strictly from a search engine optimization perspective, there might be other approaches for you to consider. If forum pages with your name in them rank higher than your own site, that is likely due to some particular factors: 1) the search terms you happen to be testing, which may or may not be the terms used by other people you'd like to find your site, 2) the high page rank of pages here at DC, and 3) lower relevance factors for your own home page.
I can't address the first dimension because I don't know what terms you're looking at. Picking the most effective terms to track, depending on the results you want from your site, is a bit of an art in itself.
(I will note in passing that _new_ people you'd like to find you probably _won't_ be searching by your name, and conversely, people who know you to search for you by name, will most likely pick out your site readily among a few links to other sites where your name appears. And what am I supposed to do about the fact that a famous Chicago DJ copied my name exactly, just a few years before I was born? Except laugh about it whenever I rock through the Windy City...)
The second dimension is one that you can choose to look at either negatively or positively. I don't know your site at all. Generally though it's hard to get the page rank of a modest web site up by very much, but, one of the most powerful ways to help raise that rank is to get legitimate incoming links from higher ranked pages.
Since nothing here at DC is likely to be directly competitive with your own site, having incoming links from solid related content discussions here, via a tasteful message signature block, is one of the most cost effective ways to achieve that. Some go to great lengths, even at significant cost, to get comparable incoming links to raise their site rank.
DC pages linking to your site in this way will help your site stay ranked higher than any real competitors, without competing themselves.
The third dimension is one that you really need to nail yourself. And if your site, which, again, I do not know, is falling at all short in terms of its own internal content, structure, keywording, location, and technology, then that is absolutely the first place you should be looking. And _if_ there is any shortfall there, then you would really be working backwards to axe "better" pages here to make yours float up, when you should first be maximizing the rank lift, especially for the most important keywords, for your own pages themselves.
This is a general issue that comes up from time to time - that a personal page lists at Google lower than DC pages with postings from the same person.
Please, take it from the group that has produced those same highly-ranked forum pages: The Web is about connectivity, and the Google index is built on that knowledge. Strong pages connecting to yours are a tremendous asset.
Rather than stifling such a great asset, one is much better off learning how to use it effectively. |
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