Title: First page listing in google
Post by: Whitney on June 26, 2006, 05:06:33 AM
Post by: Whitney on June 26, 2006, 05:06:33 AM
If you type in "happy atheist" happyatheistforum.com is listed on the first page of google results (last of the first page results, but still first page is good). Maybe that will help us get more members.
edit: I just did a search for "atheist forum" the site is on the second page results of that search term.
I hope that in time thie site will list at the top for "happy atheist" and somewhere on the first page for "atheist forum" (Now I really need to remember to get the meta tags and sitemap done for this new site so I don't get droped from the google results)
edit: I just did a search for "atheist forum" the site is on the second page results of that search term.
I hope that in time thie site will list at the top for "happy atheist" and somewhere on the first page for "atheist forum" (Now I really need to remember to get the meta tags and sitemap done for this new site so I don't get droped from the google results)
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Post by: Asmodean Prime on February 13, 2007, 12:51:21 AM
Post by: Asmodean Prime on February 13, 2007, 12:51:21 AM
Heck, it's at the top, now!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=happy+atheist (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=happy+atheist)
Oh, by the way, howdy, y'all!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=happy+atheist (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=happy+atheist)
Oh, by the way, howdy, y'all!
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Post by: ImpaledSkier on February 13, 2007, 05:33:43 AM
Post by: ImpaledSkier on February 13, 2007, 05:33:43 AM
Congrats Laetusatheos, that's no small feat.
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Post by: MrE2Me on February 13, 2007, 08:58:26 AM
Post by: MrE2Me on February 13, 2007, 08:58:26 AM
Yeah, it's a shame this forum isn't more popular, but hopefully this progress on Google will help.
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Post by: MattC on March 20, 2007, 06:36:48 AM
Post by: MattC on March 20, 2007, 06:36:48 AM
It worked: #1 when I searched for "atheist forum". Hello!
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Post by: Squid on March 20, 2007, 07:10:17 AM
Post by: Squid on March 20, 2007, 07:10:17 AM
Cool. Congrats. I don't know how you did it - my site doesn't even show up on that search.
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Post by: Eclecticsaturn on March 20, 2007, 08:17:51 AM
Post by: Eclecticsaturn on March 20, 2007, 08:17:51 AM
the way that it works is whenever you click on a link from google it makes that link stronger. google doent track the site, it tracks the clicks to the site. Soooo that being said if you really want to make it strong, instead of entering this site from your favorites or desktop link or however anyone does it, go in through the google look up. If you want to take it to the next level you can even type happy atheist or whatever it was that was being typed into the search even then before clicking this link save that page as your home page so your forced to click it that, giving it power each time, without going through tomany extra steps.
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Post by: Squid on March 20, 2007, 05:54:37 PM
Post by: Squid on March 20, 2007, 05:54:37 PM
Ahh, good to know.
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Post by: Whitney on March 23, 2007, 11:04:20 PM
Post by: Whitney on March 23, 2007, 11:04:20 PM
Quote from: "Squid"Cool. Congrats. I don't know how you did it - my site doesn't even show up on that search.
I'm not sure what I did either, it just started showing up. Hmm...I used webCEO (free version) to pick good keywords and submit to multiple search engines, placed the site on "Stumble!," exhanged links with a few places (including atheist top sites or whatever it is in my sig), put a link to this site on my myspace, created a site map according to google's specifications as well as a txt version and submitted it to them....that's about it, nothing really special.
Whatever you are doing, according to Link Popularity Check (also free) it is working pretty well for AlltheWeb it returned 980 hits for your site from that engine (mine is 131). You do have some presence on google, it returns 11 hits (mine is 29) so maybe you just need to update keywords/sitemaps? I don't know, I'm certainly not an expert at any of this being top on google was just dumb luck.
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Post by: Squid on March 24, 2007, 12:58:25 AM
Post by: Squid on March 24, 2007, 12:58:25 AM
Maybe so, I haven't updated my sitemap although that's because I plan on adding more content to my site soon...well, at least after the semester ends anyway.
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Post by: Whitney on March 22, 2008, 01:17:37 AM
Post by: Whitney on March 22, 2008, 01:17:37 AM
Update:
Google:
#1 Happy Atheist
#2 Atheist Forum
#74 (page 8) Atheist
Yahoo:
#1 Happy Atheist
#7 Atheist Forum
??? Atheist
link popularity: total 6,349 inlinks
allthe web: 806
altaVista: 4,680
google: 32
msn: 55
Yahoo: 776
Google:
#1 Happy Atheist
#2 Atheist Forum
#74 (page 8) Atheist
Yahoo:
#1 Happy Atheist
#7 Atheist Forum
??? Atheist
link popularity: total 6,349 inlinks
allthe web: 806
altaVista: 4,680
google: 32
msn: 55
Yahoo: 776
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Post by: ShimShamSam on March 22, 2008, 02:00:22 AM
Post by: ShimShamSam on March 22, 2008, 02:00:22 AM
well hey, that's how I found this place yesterday, I typed "atheist forum", it seemed...logical and reasonable.
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Post by: tacoma_kyle on March 22, 2008, 07:12:20 AM
Post by: tacoma_kyle on March 22, 2008, 07:12:20 AM
Excelsior!
But yeah that is sweet to know!
(You paid the GOOGLE guys---didnt ya?)
But yeah that is sweet to know!
(You paid the GOOGLE guys---didnt ya?)