Why is Digital Point always there?

Most of my SEO/webmaster searches on Google usually have a post or two from Digital Point on the first page.

Firstly, the PR of that URL is usually always 0

Secondly, DP does not use SEO URL.

Well I have a e-commerce site and would like to achieve a similar effect, I would like some advice on doing some ground work to insure that items rank high on Google without having to promoting the URL of each and every item.

- Mutasim

 

Here is One Reason

Here is Another Reason

 

so due to the main URL being PR7 ? and the DMOZ listings?

 

Digital Point is a very strong domain with a lot of authority. Therefore it will rank well for a lot of search strings and keywords related to web marketing, and webmasters.

 

Relevancy. That means the page is about what you're looking for. You don't need "search engine friendly" URLs with Bulletin either.

 

so are there any tactics I can adopt to aim to do as I explained above?

 

Sarahk once told me that after a few weeks they drop there rank.

 

Why does DP need to use SEO?

Right now they have 2,074 people online. So do SEO to get more people? Its probably not worth it. Also google would have to reindex the whole site, and as they do 80,000 pages per day, that would be close to 1GB a day of traffic, google wouldnt be able to update all the pages fast enough and DP would lose thoes positions they have on Google right now.

(i am talking explicitly about SEO urls)

For meta tags:

Should be okay, doesnt need more. And not only that people talk about DP all over the place, from blogs to major websites so its all the more link juice for them.

I know there is more than that, but really why introduce new stuff to something that already works?

Pierce

 

Sure. Make your pages as relevant as possible. If you're looking to rank for multiple keywords, then make multiple pages with as much relevancy as possible.

 

Acquire around 500,000 relevant, decent backlinks. Including a few dozen .EDU or .GOVs.

Create and develop a community which has thousands of active users who regularly post tens of thousands of relevant posts a day. Either that, or write 10,000+ articles yourself.

I'm sure that would do it

Easier said than done eh?

 

the reason is simple .

dp is a trusted web site

 

the digitalpoint have some good quality links ..and well indexed with good PR .
so any sreach related to search engines and webmasters . it will be at the top

 

Sheesh looking at the digitalpoint.com archive. The main site hasn't changed from 98' to now. lol.

 

Toolbar PR is not used anywhere in the SERPS algo, Ever.
"SEO friendly URLS" are no more SEO friendly than any other URL.

 

Well they are when you get a backlink with no anchor text.

A backlink to:

Digitalpoint.com/search-engine-optimization

Is more beneficial then:

Digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=92

As it contains keywords like what occurs when anchor text is used. Also descriptive URL's i've found users will click more often as it gives then an indication what the link contains, as opposed to some query string.

So always use Content Relevant URL's where possible. The short time it takes to lay down solid foundations for your site makes it definately worth while.

 

bcuz its all orgiinal content, always new content and a lot of ppl link to it...and its a old site

 

If you google for your site name, google highlights your sitename URL, also if you happen to have keywors in the URL on the SERPS, google highlights them.

This leads me to believe that keyword rich URL's are a must for SEO.

Pierce

 

That isn't what the phrase "seo friendly urls" means.

Besides, The proof is in the first post that says even though DP uses paramaters it still shows up in searches a lot. When google highlight a word they are simply saying "look, heres one of the words you searched for". Theres no basis to claim it has anything other than a minimul effect on SERPS. You seem to be 5 years out of touch with SEO.

 

DP has a lot going for it, massive amounts of back links, huge amount of content, a great catch (revenu sharing), so it doesnt need seo. All it needs is to be crawlable.

DP may have several keywords it ranks well for, such as webmaster forum. But from my experience of running a forum, people tend to do way more natual language searches. Such as "What is SEO?", "SEO advantagates and disadvantages". So from that perspective I believe due to digital points massive footprint, they are always going to have a nice chunk of traffic from organic search.

Keywords in URL is what I understand to be "SEO friendly" links, probably a better definition would be "static urls", but Id love to hear your version. SEOMoz doesnt rate it that high, only 2.8, but about the same has Keywords in h2,h3,h(x) tags. http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors

The highlighting may be mundane in terms of SEO, but users are gullable impressionable people, the more highlight the more it brings it to their attention.

Pierce