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SEO Case Study of About.com

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by poseidon, Nov 16, 2008.

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    Just finished writing small SEO case study of About.com here. I hope it will help you guys.

    If you have some pointers to add then please do tell me and I will add them
     
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    hatrky co. Peon

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    i have read it really it is great study
    i will back and i have some additions it will help you
    Conciliation_
     
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    sweetfunny Banned

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    Good, but you forgot two of the most influential factors about their rankings.

    #1 Massive use of subdomains, each topic is setup on it's own keyword subdomain.

    #2 Spiderbites yes, the whole don't make pages for spiders is out the window with their Spiderbites Pagerank funneling: http://spiderbites.about.com/sitemap.htm
     
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    Thanks, good one about spiderbites SF :)
     
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    Nicely written article, mate.

    Well done.
     
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    zac439 Notable Member

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    Very cool post, I didn't know About.com was so popular.

    One typo I saw:
    Should be "than" :)
     
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    poseidon Banned

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    do'h, fixed
     
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    #8
    thanks for sharing your case study it is really informative.
     
    xander1083, Nov 16, 2008 IP