So lately I've seen my site sometimes on the front page at the bottom and other times it's at the top of page 2. I'm struggling to get it up there and this frustrates me. I have a domain name too and nothing seems to be really working, though I'm slowly cutting down on the number of affiliates at the bottom that I have.
Google rank flickering
- Thread starter Acorn
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Keywords work better than just images? I now use mostly just images but I could change it.
The domain name currently only points to it. I dunno how to change that.
I can't find any forums to sig advertise on, those seem to be the best ones. I won't post on a forum unless I enjoy its subject obviously. I spend hours most evenings just looking for somewhere.
Our main fan competitor has a rank of 6 and over 5,000 backlinks. I got about 500 and a rank of 2. I post a lot on forums so yes, I could probably get more than 5000 backlinks IF the links are good ones, not nofollow crap or on some tiny forum that doesn't give me enough places to post.
The domain name currently only points to it. I dunno how to change that.
I can't find any forums to sig advertise on, those seem to be the best ones. I won't post on a forum unless I enjoy its subject obviously. I spend hours most evenings just looking for somewhere.
Our main fan competitor has a rank of 6 and over 5,000 backlinks. I got about 500 and a rank of 2. I post a lot on forums so yes, I could probably get more than 5000 backlinks IF the links are good ones, not nofollow crap or on some tiny forum that doesn't give me enough places to post.
Yeah, unless the forum has altered the bbcode so you can or HTML is enabled.
It really depends. I can't say that Google will index that site/page of that forum. If the forum has a no-follow on then you won't get anything.
Nice to see "Warrior Cats" in your signature. I believe that FP is dofollow so thats good.
It really depends. I can't say that Google will index that site/page of that forum. If the forum has a no-follow on then you won't get anything.
Nice to see "Warrior Cats" in your signature. I believe that FP is dofollow so thats good.
I mean, I have the source code available to just look through. I know one site {Digital Point} IS a dofollow because one, it's a marketing site much like this one and EVERYONE has their sig links going, including a lot of experts and 2, I believe at least one person said so. I checked for rel="nofollow" on there too in sigs and there was none.
If there's anything else I need to scan through code for, I could do it if I knew where to look.
Checked last night for backlinks, didn't find any of the new forum stuff coming up yet though, it's too soon; but I found that my site actually has 2 URLs:
http://warriorcatsarpg.proboards.com
http://warriorcatsarpg.proboards.com/index.cgi
and each one has its own set of backlinks. together, almost 1000, but split apart. Because the second URL is the one that actually opens up the site when it appears in a link I changed all my sigs to the second one, and am hoping for better results. Does that even matter?
If the backlinks do start popping up from those forums, and they should, they'll show the nofollow tags.
One of my members is sig advertising on a nofollow site. Should I tell her to quit? Does that harm our site's links?
If there's anything else I need to scan through code for, I could do it if I knew where to look.
Checked last night for backlinks, didn't find any of the new forum stuff coming up yet though, it's too soon; but I found that my site actually has 2 URLs:
http://warriorcatsarpg.proboards.com
http://warriorcatsarpg.proboards.com/index.cgi
and each one has its own set of backlinks. together, almost 1000, but split apart. Because the second URL is the one that actually opens up the site when it appears in a link I changed all my sigs to the second one, and am hoping for better results. Does that even matter?
If the backlinks do start popping up from those forums, and they should, they'll show the nofollow tags.
One of my members is sig advertising on a nofollow site. Should I tell her to quit? Does that harm our site's links?
Acorn, you could try some directory submission to build links to your site. You might also find this thread helpful - Can someone share some link building tips ?.
Yahoo answers! I never even thought of that! I'm sure I could find a bunch, too. Thanks Fergal! I'm going to have a look at this stuff. I already did submit it to several directories, none of them came up on a recent backlink check so I'm not so hot on that method right now.
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