Comments on: Powerful posts 20 May 2007 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/ Community Building Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Martin Reed http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1297 Martin Reed Mon, 21 May 2007 17:41:15 +0000 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1297 Hi Natasha - welcome to the blog, and thank you for taking the time to comment. I am glad you enjoyed this post and hope you find some of the other articles published here useful. Hi Natasha – welcome to the blog, and thank you for taking the time to comment. I am glad you enjoyed this post and hope you find some of the other articles published here useful.

]]> By: Natasha Judd http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1296 Natasha Judd Mon, 21 May 2007 17:30:12 +0000 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1296 Just a note to say that I'm enjoying reading your blog... and that I find the external links useful - it certainly beats 'stumbling' around till I find them by chance. Just a note to say that I’m enjoying reading your blog… and that I find the external links useful – it certainly beats ‘stumbling’ around till I find them by chance.

]]> By: Martin Reed http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1281 Martin Reed Mon, 21 May 2007 11:58:41 +0000 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1281 That's very true, Cell. With such a wide audience, not every article you write will be relevant to each and every visitor. I try to post one new article a day, and have kept to this target since starting the blog (apart from one missed day on Friday when the beer garden beckoned!). That’s very true, Cell. With such a wide audience, not every article you write will be relevant to each and every visitor.

I try to post one new article a day, and have kept to this target since starting the blog (apart from one missed day on Friday when the beer garden beckoned!).

]]> By: Cell http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1258 Cell Mon, 21 May 2007 01:38:50 +0000 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1258 The one I pay the most attention to is posting frequency. Not every post you write is gonna be amazing. Not every post you think is amazing will resonate with your readers … I did one of each last week …

]]> By: Martin Reed http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1255 Martin Reed Mon, 21 May 2007 00:38:32 +0000 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1255 <strong>Smiley</strong> - What Google does and doesn't do is often a mystery; although there is evidence to suggest Google is moving to <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/">stop counting paid links</a> in its algorithm. <strong>Daniel</strong> - The site sure is interesting; I wonder if Google are happy with the look and implied endorsement? Anything that raises money for charity should be encouraged. <strong>Nate</strong> - I am more than happy to link to valuable articles! Keep up the good work with your blog :) Smiley – What Google does and doesn’t do is often a mystery; although there is evidence to suggest Google is moving to stop counting paid links in its algorithm.

Daniel – The site sure is interesting; I wonder if Google are happy with the look and implied endorsement? Anything that raises money for charity should be encouraged.

Nate – I am more than happy to link to valuable articles! Keep up the good work with your blog :)

]]> By: Nate Whitehill http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1249 Nate Whitehill Sun, 20 May 2007 22:25:45 +0000 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1249 Thanks for the linkage, Martin! Keep up the excellent work - your blog is really taking off! :) Thanks for the linkage, Martin! Keep up the excellent work – your blog is really taking off! :)

]]> By: Chicago 2016 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1248 Chicago 2016 Sun, 20 May 2007 21:52:40 +0000 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1248 I asked Gary about it, and it's just a personal pledge of his, not a formal deal with Google and the American Cross. I'm taking his word on it (probably not a good thing for me to do anyway) but either way, the site looks pretty cool. I asked Gary about it, and it’s just a personal pledge of his, not a formal deal with Google and the American Cross.

I’m taking his word on it (probably not a good thing for me to do anyway) but either way, the site looks pretty cool.

]]> By: Smiley http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1241 Smiley Sun, 20 May 2007 19:49:09 +0000 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1241 Exactly, Martin – I’m very weary when it comes to charity over the internet. Infact, I think the only time I’ve given money towards charity over the internet is when I donated on JC.

And even then – you used a third party site to ensure people knew it was genuine.

And my goals for purchasing links is for link popularity. We’ve spent a lot of money on the site and I don’t believe in spamming.

It’s cost us £50 a day on Google Adwords and it’s cost an arm and a leg, we really need to start being found through conventional means. Simply by people searching on search engines.

We’re currently being found through Yahoo, MSN & Google through people searching for “Good Chat”, “Good Chat Rooms”, “Free Chat”, “Free friendly chatrooms” – but that’s just about it. As you know, all the other keywords are highly competitive ;)

We’re getting there, but it’s still difficult. I read that link popularity plays a big part in search engine rankings, thus bought a few links using backlinks.com – not too many, so it won’t look suspicious to engines, but enough to suddenly boost our PR ranking from “unranked” ro “PR 4″ in under 2 weeks !!

We’ve now gone from 300ish unique visitors per day to 800ish unique visitors per day. Only a minority of that make it into the rooms so I’m still working on optimizing the frontpage. But as far as visitations are concerned – the links have DEFINITELY worked.

Community sites are a highly competitive area of the internet, quite frankly I haven’t got a reply from any sites I’ve e-mailed requesting a link exchange or a helping hand from – thus paid links were the only option.

I do think they are a bit of a grey area though. I also read that Google often penalises sites for paying for links?

]]> By: Martin Reed http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1235 Martin Reed Sun, 20 May 2007 18:38:09 +0000 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1235 Hi Daniel - Google Shadow looks interesting; how do we know for sure that revenue is actually donated to charity though? I couldn't find any evidence on the site, which makes me hesitant in recommending it. Hi Daniel – Google Shadow looks interesting; how do we know for sure that revenue is actually donated to charity though? I couldn’t find any evidence on the site, which makes me hesitant in recommending it.

]]> By: Chicago 2016 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1232 Chicago 2016 Sun, 20 May 2007 17:06:40 +0000 http://www.communityspark.com/powerful-posts-20-may-2007/#comment-1232 Gary Lee puts out a lot of useful things on his site. Have you checked out <a href="http://googleshadow.com"><strong>Google Shadow</strong></a> yet? Gary Lee puts out a lot of useful things on his site. Have you checked out Google Shadow yet?

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