I stopped posting on forums last year but felt I’d start back this year. Forums are a great way of keeping up with what’s going on in the industry as well as seeing how some SEO’s will get caught up in things that really don’t matter.

Below is a question asked by one forum poster and then answered by a lot of SEO experts. I commented and placed my thoughts under some of the experts answers.

Exact-match URLs?

Hope I’m not beating this topic into the ground….but,

If I have url structure such as:

freeblue.com/widgets

Will Google see this as an exact match for the keyword query “free blue widgets”?

Then we have answers like

[QUOTE=mjtaylor;542743]Perhaps, but it doesn’t make them analogous in my mind. When only one site can compete for a given ranking factor that’s an absurd factor, IMO.
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I want to apologize from the start if I am missing something, but there can be hundreds of exact match URLS as hundreds and even thousands of people can use the keyword in the URL. Mysite.com/keyword.

[QUOTE=Clint1;542765]Then why did the page(s) show in the results? It has to be obviously because [I]G found those searched-for words in the title tag or on the page, or in the URL[/I] (or as they so love, it links pointing to the page, which isn’t the subject here now). So they had to have found those words important, or the page would not have ranked. After all, that is for what the user was searching.[/QUOTE]

To say that since we are not talking about links they can therefore have nothing to do with that keyword ranking seems a bit strange to me.

If the keywords are in the URL and someone links to the site using the URL as the anchor text then the keywords are in the anchor text. And chances are if the keywords are in the URL they are also in the title and have relevant content on the page for that same keyword.

And it would only make sense to me that if the page is well written and has valuable information then there are most likely links using the keywords as anchor text pointing to that page.

[QUOTE=texxs;542708]It think it’s a great factor myself. One that has been very helpful in the recent relevance of their SERPs. In fact I think if they dropped it they’ll really having nothing left but who ever spends the most wins (as long as they spend it properly). [/QUOTE]

With hundreds of things Google looks at when ranking a site I don’t believe dropping or changing one will have all that much of an effect.

[QUOTE=texxs;542708]However I personally believe they don’t want the relevance they have now, and now that they realize that Bing isn’t that much of a threat, they would like to have the ads be the relevant thing in their SERP’s again.[/QUOTE]

Google is #1 because they have relevant results; if they stopped being relevant people would start looking for another way to find information. And that would open the gates for a lot of new players in the search engines.

Once Google got known for having bad results it would be difficult for them to stay #1.

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SEO Forum

I’ve been away from the SEO forum seen for about the last 3 to 4 years. It’s just like anything else in life, we get tied up doing other things and before we know it, it’s been 4 years and we’ve not even stopped by to say hi.

Its part of life and something most people understand however, when it’s your own SEO forum it’s really kind of bad and a lot different. Yes, I own and SEO forum.

I’ve decided recently that it’s about time for me to get to posting and commenting on my SEO forum again. The first thing we did was to redesign the forum and try and make the look and feel of the forum a little better. Of course I’ll be fine tuning this with the help of the forum members.

I’m also going to start posting on several other SEO forums just to get the feel of things again. I’ve hit some of the forums I use to post on regularly and most of them seem to have died down a good bit. As a matter of fact I’d call some of them dead and others not even a shell of what they use to be.

This is a for warning as I’m sure a lot of the up and coming post will have something to do with what was said on one forum or another. There is a lot of good information floating around on forums and it’ll give me something to blog about as well as learn about new and better techniques.

It’s been a rough day today with a couple highlights in between.

First there was the fight with ctabuk, actually that was the only rough part of the day other than one of my affiliate accounts dropping off for some reason or another.

The fight has given me something to blog about so that makes it worthwhile and it has caused me to get off my butt and start working on my forum again.

I got complemented by an SEO I have a lot of respect for today and that meant a lot to me. And I had two other people David Leonhardt and Brian Mark (who redesigned his website without me) whom I have a lot of respect for leave comments on my blog, which also means a lot. Yet for some reason I feel depressed and am having a hard time pushing through the day and it’s actually been a good day.

With all that being said I’d like to post a couple things that are on my mind. During the fight with ctabuk he brought an old post I made and quoted me on it (for reasons that had nothing to do with anything) and I’d like to talk or rather write about that for a moment.

Here’s what I said,

Spammers Are Good For Your Blog and Forum

I’m just a girl yet I’ve been called a black hat SEO as well as a spammer no less than 3 times this week. Seems that so-called white hat SEO’s call anything that might cause them a little extra thought a black hat and or a spammer.

They’ve gone so far as to say that if you post on a blog or forum with the sole purpose of the backlinks then you’re a spammer. When I pointed out that all my posts are good they pointed out that it makes no difference. What matters is where your mind is when you’re making the post. Are you thinking about the backlinks or helping others.

Kind of like Google saying if you do anything to your site with the intentions of a higher ranking then you are a blackhat. Your intentions seem to play a big part on rather your blackhat or a white hat. I figure these must be church going folks as I remember something similar coming from the preacher when I was growing up.

I’ve got no problem with going along with being a black hat and or a spammer. It’s got to mean something good as I look back at my track record. Spammers bring good to both forums and blogs.

Let me explain

Chances are if you own a blog and or a forum and have lots and lots of people posting on them, the posters that seem the most knowledgeable and the most willing to help, are spammers. Their hope is to make a post good enough to drive both links and traffic to their site.

Before I got burned out on the whole forum thing I was getting at least 3 to 4 emails a week from people asking me to be a moderator on their forum and I was moderating on about 10 different forums already. Webproworld was one of the hottest forums online at that time and I was starting more post that got higher responses than anyone else. And at the time I knew nothing about SEO but was making a killing off the forums.

I was what most forums needed. As time went on I got really good at understanding how to get a site ranked but got burned out on the forums. Many people have accused me of being a spammer even though I rarely ever linked to my own sites. And as I left those forums I’ve noticed most of them have died down quite a bit. I like to think it’s because I’m no longer posting on them but it’s likely something totally different. Either way my point is this isn’t church and what we are thinking when we make a post or leave a comment doesn’t mean crap.

That was the comment I left that Ctabuk wanted to quote me on. It had nothing to do with the thread however he seemed to think it proved something or another. I’m about to try and get my forum going again and as I went through some recent topics, I told one of the guys to add his signature link to help him get some backlinks and traffic to his site.

I’ve got no problem with him getting something out of posting on my forum. As a matter of fact if he wants to post on it every day I’ll give him a banner ad throughout the whole forum. The forum owner gets something out of every post made on his forum, well almost every post, and I’ve got no problem returning the favor.

There is too much competition out there for people to think they can play God and from what I’ve seen people seem to be moving away from these forums in hopes of finding something were people appreciate them being a member.