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BTW, I didn't mean to bad mouth Wordpress. I actually use it a
lot. I was just speculating as to whether or not there was a
penalty for using it.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Omar<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/6/2015 10:14 AM, Omar Eljumaily
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Anet, Wow thanks for the wealth of information. I noticed the
slow page load phenom a couple of times when I switched a website
from a rather slow ISP to hosting on a local server with a fast
connection. The search engine hits went way up. Same thing the
other way around where hits went down after switching to a slower
website format.<br>
<br>
It begs the question for content management systems like Wordpress
that tend to be very slow and very often run on crowded shared
hosting sites. It's nothing scientific, but I tend to get better
hits with very streamlined text oriented sites rather than gumming
things up with Flash and lots of javascript. I think you touched
on that. I have a suspicion that Wordpress in part is an
invitation for people to spam you and for search engines to ignore
you.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Omar<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/6/2015 8:10 AM, Anet Dunne
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Omar,
your instincts are right, and I am saying this as an SEO
specialist. There is legitimate magic, which is essentially
making your site readable to Google. Remember the old days
when people had expensive Flash websites? Search engines
could not understand the content of the site, so the
expensive website did not get good page rank. People like
me fixed problems like that. Same for websites that were
just big pictures. Their owners thought these websites were
artistic and dramatic. They were actually rocks on the
Internet that no one could find. As recently as a few years
ago, Google could not determine the content of an image, so
text had to be created on the page or in the HTML markup,
and links had to be easy for Googlebots to follow.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I
found a business in San Rafael who was spending thousands
each month on Yellow Pages advertising and whose 70 page
website couldn't be found on the first seven pages of Google
results on a search for what he did. I built a seven page
"front-end" for his website so that Google could understand
what he did, and could find the 70 pages, and his business
jumped to the top of the organic results (free results) in
WEEKS!. Now, most of his new business comes through Google
advertising and search and he has cut his Yellow Pages
expense by 90%. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.artisticcellars.com/">http://www.artisticcellars.com/</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Here's
an example of one of his old pages. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.artisticcellars.com/makeover.html">http://www.artisticcellars.com/makeover.html</a>
These pages are still up because the SIZE of the website,
and HOW LONG it has been on the Internet are factors Google
includes in its algorithm for "Trust," a factor in page
rank. Back-links are still King for Google, but this too
can be shilled, (see FiverR, below).<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Regarding
Twitter, and getting a lot of followers quickly, here's
where lazy SEO people go to get things like that done. You
can get almost anything for Five Dollars, hence the website
name.<br>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.fiverr.com/">https://www.fiverr.com/</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">So,
yes, there are legitimate techniques and yes, there are
scammers. Right now, the best way to improve your Google
page rank is to make sure your website loads fast and to
optimize it for mobile. Google checks every website for
speed and responsiveness, and the results are part of your
page rank score.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Glenn
Kerbein <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:glenn@spontaneousdancing.net"
target="_blank">glenn@spontaneousdancing.net</a>></span>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">SEO is
some other calibre of voodoo.<br>
I tried it before, and it's not so great. There are some
Google tools<br>
that will work for you - their AdSense program is great.<br>
<br>
Shill followers will bump your relevance on the Twitter.
After that,<br>
you'll get an equivalent set of legitimate users, and by
then the shill<br>
users are irrelevant or unfollow you.<br>
<br>
Best of luck,<br>
Glenn<br>
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On 03/05/2015 02:30 PM, Omar Eljumaily wrote:<br>
> I guess this is marginally related to Linux since
it's all running on<br>
> LInux essentially. I got a spam email today that
said it would<br>
> guarantee 2,000 Twitter followers or your money
back. Are there<br>
> legitimate techniques for building such
followings or do they use<br>
> non-legitimate means like shill followers? I
suppose shill followers<br>
> would boost your ego as well as make it appear
that you're more<br>
> interesting than you are.<br>
><br>
> Same for SEO in general. The main issue for SEO
as far as I can tell<br>
> are back-links. Are there shill back-link
sites? I suppose search<br>
> engines would be wise to them. Any legitimate
SEO techniques?<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Omar<br>
><br>
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