I'm pretty new here and found this site through Google as I was trying to find tips on improving my search engine results rankings as well as get trafic to my two sites. This is a great forum . Over the last couple of weeks I have been checking my SERP's with several Keyword ranking tools after doing SEO and obtaining links. I am also searching directly in Google/Yahoo/MSN with keywords to see if they match the keyword ranking tools or if anything else shows up on the search engine pages that I am associated with. Also I use the "info","site" tools to see what is indexed and listing links. I noticed many of my posts here end up pretty high in the search engine page results for my keywords, in fact often beat out my websites . This may have been asked in the past, but can DP start a Topic Forum called " Advertise Your Website" or something like that. You could list your website through posting a new thread with your URL or website name and describe your website in the post. This could help all of the members, especially the newer ones , in gaining better SERP (at least for the post). This could be a paid advertisement or a reward to people with a certain amount of reps or good iTraders and could be limited by DP i.e. no more than 2 a week or something like that. There are probably some issues with this (just don't know what they are but DP probably does) but it was on my mind. So what do you think?
I am sure it is not going to happen as it will result it too much spam being added and too much burden for the mods.
Four signature links, location spamming, blog feeds, avatar advertising, home page listing is enough.
Good comments, as I figured there would be some issues. I appreciate all that DP has given me such as the signature links and ability to post here! If the thread was a paid advertisement Topic where the poster would submit a post for review, if approved pay DP and DP would post the website with description, this would prevent spamming. I know it would be more work, but if you charge for the thread it maybe profitable. Don't have any idea how much you would charge, but I would be willing to pay if the price wasn't too high. Just another thought.
I think it works well the way it is. You can describe your site in the review sections and ask people to review your site and you can add so many links in all the stuff mentioned above. I think you would be better off using the stuff you are given for free and then spend the extra money on advertising on a related niche site for traffic. JMO