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Post by timtheterrier on Dec 6, 2007 17:50:35 GMT 1
Does anyone with an IT understanding know how to raise the profile of the datm site. I've just tried googling datm.co.uk and also down at the mac and nothing came up for this site? It would help having a high profile so all posters who have historically used the rivals site know where to come. Also it wouldn't surprise me if the rivals site start banning blatant advertising for another footy chat site. Suggestions anyone?
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Post by Admin on Dec 6, 2007 18:30:58 GMT 1
Hi tim, My mate who im off to the town game with on saturday has some suggestions for me regarding this. Hes a web developer so you should see some differences next week.
Cheers
MT
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Post by Darlington Terrier on Dec 6, 2007 21:01:03 GMT 1
As far as I could see the new site doesn't have any meta keyword tags set up. Also Google ranks on popularity and relevance. Once people link to the site from their sites, and the site gets a fair few clicks, then the ranking will rise.
Hope this helps.
D T
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Post by norahs on Dec 7, 2007 9:25:59 GMT 1
I have put a new link from my FACEBOOK  plus announced the slow death of DownattheMac (non rivals)  |
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Post by oopseh on Dec 31, 2007 19:58:01 GMT 1
You may want to reinvestigate this. Finding this site is harder than the proverbial needle in a haystack. Nothing comes up on searches for 'datm' or 'down at the mac'. I ended up finding it in a sig on rivals.net. Since you cannot do anything with the proboard code you'll have to metatag up www.datm.info before the redirect. Also links from Facebook, Myspace etc don't work as they have the rel="NOFOLLOW" tag. |
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Post by Dell12 on Jan 3, 2008 2:56:49 GMT 1
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Post by stev on Jan 4, 2008 2:00:06 GMT 1
There are a few ways that google rank a website. Firstly google has to be told about the site and it takes a few weeks for the website to be 'ranked' (the link to submit a web site is posted above). Secondly google uses 'keywords' to score the site and relevence of keywords to somebodys search criteria. As this forum is hosted via a 3rd party company there is no way of adding keywords to the website source code. (If you want to see the source code right click any where on a page but not on an image and select "view page source" or "view source" depending on your browser to see the source code. The meta kewords should be between the <head> and </head> tags.) There is not the option with this type of board to add your own, I have created a forum and checked. There are a few work arounds to add keywords outside of the forum such as making a datm.co.uk home page which links or forwards users to the forum, or putting the forum inside a frameset. Both options would allow a developer to add keywords as required. As mentioned above, links to this site from QUALITY websites with a high google score will bump you up the ranking as will users of this forum (and other forums) putting www.datm.info in their signature. But as with all things on the internet, sadly its comes down to cash. If you pay google (pay per click) they will put the highest bidder at the top of the search result page. The art of this is called SEO (search engine optimisation) and it is a masive industry with companies paying thousands of pounds a month to get their website noticed. |
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Post by Dell12 on Jan 4, 2008 14:22:30 GMT 1
Ok i've added us to Google and Yahoo. Hopefully we'll be up there in a few days. Probably be helpfull if once its up for a few of us to click on the link when going to this website to push us up the page a bit!
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Post by HD8 Blue & White on Aug 27, 2008 7:49:51 GMT 1
Another way to raise our keyword search ranking within Google would be to have alt text on all the signature pictures, this is the text you see when you mouse over a picture, ours just says image at the mo.
So if our keywords were
{down macc DATM huddersfield town FC supporters fans forum football soccer}
we should include those words as many times within the site as possible, a very good place being alt text on photos, Google robots always look at alt text when building keyword density for a particular site.
Trouble is now I have told you all this I dont actually know how to do it unless I was building the site from scratch.
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plus announced the slow death of DownattheMac (non rivals) 
