Google Rank: Use of Links in this Forum

[haselhurst]

Google Rank: Use of Links in this Forum

Hello everyone,

Karene and I have spent a great deal of time over the past 2 years building the website http://www.spaceandmotion.com
and also building links to it so that it ranks well in Google in the subjects of physics philosophy and metaphysics.
This work is very necessary as about half of a page's position in the search engine results page (serp) is determined by 'backward links' (links pointing to our pages from other websites).
And we have had some success (there is still much to do), pages now rank top 50 for most main search terms, and website gets around 20,000 page views a day.

To now help this new forum rank well we have added links to it from every page on our spaceandmotion website (total of 270 page rank 5 & 6 links, which greatly strengthens this forum, but which also lowers our link strength at spaceandmotion.com).
This has resulted in this forum now having a page rank 6 in Google which is pretty good.

Because of this we must apply fairly stringent rules to the external links allowed in this forum, as follows;

1. We have turned off the 'Signature' option that normally goes at bottom of each person's post.

2. Please only put active links to quality relevant websites. If in doubt please use brackets around the html address so that it is not read as an active link. e.g. (http://www.spaceandmotion.com)
People interested in the page can just copy address and paste it into browser.

3. Due to the SEO Mods that I have recently done for this phpBB forum pages have been changed from dynamic to static URLs (which Google prefers). However, this is only true if you are logged out (Google spider does not log in! When people log in they still use dynamic URLs).
Thus if you plan on adding links to pages in the forum it is important that you link to STATIC URL. There are two ways you can do this;

a) Log out of Forum and then go to the page you want to link to and get its static URL. The URL will end with /forum/aboutX.html where X is some number.

b) When logged in go to page you want to link to, it will be a dynamic URL which ends with /forum/viewtopic.php?t=X and change it to above format forum/aboutX.html (which is correct static URL).

This is important if you want your work in this forum to be seen on Internet. I have a lot of experience in this and i can assure you it will make a huge difference over time! And please try to use keywords (that people actually search) both in posts, and in the link to those posts.

I can honestly say that you will get substantial benefit over time by joining link strength with our websites (mutual benefit is a good foundation).

Hope this makes sense.

Improving this Forum in Search Engine Results

It seems likely that Google has a 6 month 'probationary' period for new websites and early on they do not rank well in search engines. I suspect that this is also related to the number of other websites on the internet that have links to the new site.
At the moment (Jan, 2006) we get about 100 hits a day from search engines which is pretty abysmal!
So I think that if we could get 20 people here to make five external links each back to the forum from different websites this may greatly help getting this new website coming up much better in Google. As above, please log out then go to forum page and get correct static URL for page you are linking to.

There is also some useful information on this and many other things to do with using the internet at;
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/how-to-help-the-wave-structure-of-matter.htm

Kindly and sincerely,
Geoff Haselhurst (Updated January, 2006)

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