Not interested for FerrariChat.com, we've always had top results without much work. I've had a hard time getting my hunting community to show up anywhere in searches even with unique topics. SEO consulting seems like witchcraft and you can't tell who to trust between spam emails and websites. Anyone have a recommendation? thanks.
Rob, use the power of a large community, and create links and 'ads' to it from fchat. Google, and the other bots will crawl the forum/blog posts here, and start raising the keyword for that site there in queries.
What keywords are you targeting and what is your goal for this traffic? Signups? Ad revenue? Send me a PM if you don't want to put specifics here.
Im very interested in this subject too so if anything can be posted outside PM thatd be really cool. Best, Ryan
hunting related, but even unique threads that are just in my forum aren't being found on Google or at least towards the top where they should be. search for "free range hunting" and the forum www.freerangehunter.com comes up towards top, but like "low fence hunting" doesn't come up at least on first page and I would like it to. https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=low+fence+hunting&oq=low+fence+hunting&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_l=hp.3..0i15.12330l14254l2l14399l17l11l0l6l6l0l212l1045l8j2j1l16l0.frgbld.&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=bc1ebdab62cad3d5&biw=1366&bih=601
The amount of backlinks from high ranked sites i most important. Twitter, FB, Linkedin, other sites you can think of placing link. Use adwords with at least some budget, that will help too. Make sure all headers and metas structure of site html is ok for the ease of index. First page better have ome live, daily updated content. Check robots file on web server. And more backlinks fom anywhere Good luck! Ps. damn ipad skipping letters when typing...
Rob, just a few follow-up comments: While volume, and highly ranked sites play an important role, it's also about diversification/quality/relevance as well. Most ranked sites are linked to from a variety of high to low quality. The link portfolio should be diverse and natural looking. Try to get people to write about the site from quality/relevant themed sites. Any friends in the hunting/gaming industry? Those links would be great. Personal hunting bloggers, go for it. Look at the link portfolios of the sites that are ranking for the keywords you want. Those might provide you a good target for easy and hard to acquire links. Links from "trusted" organizations are excellent as well. .gov, .edu, etc. aka "social mentions" or social activity - this really is becoming a bigger factor in organic ranking (as confirmed by search engines), and yes, use your social network to promote the site and ask followers to do the same. Adwords itself won't be a major factor in SEO, but it can help from the exposure and eventual indirect link building that might come from people finding the sponsored ad and deciding to add a link to you from their site or on another forum. It will however help with traffic, as I'm sure you know. Tons of quality free info available from the major industry publications. A professional can help identify these a bit easier. Forums generally benefit from this on the homepage and sub-pages. Along with some new/"fresh" content, I'd recommend some static content as well that link to key pages. Not necessarily from just any source. There are some sites that you should stay away from if you're doing active link building (which you should be doing anyway). These sites are fake blogs setup with junk content and numerous outbound links. There are sites that are considered "bad neighborhoods". Tons of info online about this. If there's a real distinct pattern in your link portfolio, it may get you flagged for a manual audit, de-valued, or penalized or banned in the worst case scenario. You'll end up getting links from junk sites no matter what as it matures, but there's not much you can do, so focus on a diversified and relevant quality sites. As Google and the others like to say, just create value and quality content for the users, and the viral link baiting will come along. Indeed! PM me if you've got questions. If you do hire a paid consultant or SEO firm, do your due dilligence. The right person or company can be great, the alternative or "cheap" solutions are more often times going to cost you in time and money down the road.
