How does DP rank so damn well?!?

Discussion in 'SEO' started by maney, Sep 7, 2006.

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    One of the keyterms for my new forum is "exotic pets forum", I'm struggling on a seo front for the forum but I think I'm doing ok. Anyway, I searched the term on google to have a quick browse, and what do I found? Oh yes, position 9 held by digital point because of of in a thread I made my signature contains the anchor text "exotic pets forum". So, how does DP do it?
     
    maney, Sep 7, 2006 IP
  2. phaithful

    phaithful Peon

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    One DP has a ton of back links.
    Two "exotic pets" is a niche topic and "exotic pets forums" is even more niche.
    Three I checked 10 different Big G datacenters, Y!, and Ask and didn't see DP in the top 10... top 30 maybe. Note: if you're logged into Big G they'll be serving you SERPs that are personalized which may effect the outcome of your results.
     
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  3. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #3
    Nothing special is done on this end... except Digital Point is big, old, has a lot of unique content and has about 7M links to whatever random page people choose to link to.
     
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  4. hans

    hans Well-Known Member

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    a much better question is how do YOU manage NOT to be where you want to be in your SERPS ..
    here some facts

    1. many of your pages have same title meta tag - hence little or no SEO
    2. the one page Google

    has as your forum seems to link to
    http://www.exotic-pets.eu/forum/pro...file&u=6&sid=7d4fa7ba026bc5e710265e3768f235c4
    that is a page with ZERO SEO for your keyword "exotic pets forum"
    the page
    http://www.exotic-pets.eu/forum/index.php
    seems not yet indexed by G ( on my G datacenter at least )

    hence make sure all pages have clean validated code, vliad links and all pages are found by G
     
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  5. Blogmaster

    Blogmaster Blood Type Dating Affiliate Manager

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    old links and steady growth
     
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  6. maney

    maney Active Member

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    I understand there is a way to set the title meta tag to whatever the thread title is but as of yet I haven't managed to do it.

    When I've searched link:www.exotic-pets.eu/forum I've got about 100 results, one of which is the index.
     
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  7. hans

    hans Well-Known Member

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    forum page
    as i mentioned clearly - no forum-index page on the datacenter G used for me on my side of the world

    but you may have all pages too young to have a steady result by now

    re title meta tags / description meta tags

    look at your templates if no other configuration option is possible
    usually there are variables in templates for
    forum title :: subforum :: topic :: post

    some software uses a different template for different levels a.m.
    hence by modifying your template accordingly, you may get desired output

    else

    you may go to your forum-SW homepage and see what they say in their own forum
     
    hans, Sep 8, 2006 IP