On Thu, October 11, 2012 7:23 am, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > >> Marketing companies spend millions of client dollars on SEO and manage >> to >> get a lot done with just a few dedicated people. We have thousands of >> users and each one of us can build a website or post links in forums and >> social media to the landing pages that we want to promote. Our sites all >> link up to each other anyway so it just needs some effort from people >> around here to spread the links and evangelise the platform. > > Oh for god's sake. Inbound links are the past of search engines marketing. > Where do you get that idea? Has the web suddenly stopped using hyper links? Page rank in primarily built on two things, Unique content and referring links. If the referring links are spread out across multiple domains and ip addresses from multiple regional locations and they are referenced by useful keywords that people are searching for that improves ranking. linking "click here" is not as good for ranking as linking "For professional audio, multimedia, productions tools on Linux click here". In addition social media and embedded direct links on other highly ranked sites play a big part in page rank too. If a site that has a ranking of 10 links to a site that has a ranking of 1 that improves the page rank for the lower ranked site. Google is struggling to provide the kind of results that they used to be capable of in realtime search at the moment but that has more to do with "big data" issues where they are caching search results to save on having to retrieve them from their archives to maximise system performance than wholesale changes to their search algorithms. One thing that has recently changed is that forums and hosted content sites are becoming higher ranked than mailing lists. In some cases it is useful but often it results in a lower quality of information. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
