On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:30:56PM +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 14:12:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] > >I've always been skeptical of SEO. Google is known to implement > >changes to their ranking algorithm specifically to counter > >artificially inflated PageRank's. Why spend the time and energy > >pulling all those stunts, that could be better spent producing *good > >content* instead??! IME, if you have good, regularly updated > >content, eventually Google will find you, and once it finds you, > >you'll have a solid PageRank way up near the top, and you won't > >easily fall back down (unlike if you invested in questionable SEO > >tactics that gets targeted by the next algorithm upgrade, then > >suddenly your precious PageRank evaporates overnight). > > > >This happened to my personal hobby website: I did absolutely no SEO > >whatsoever, and for the first few years I was nowhere to be found on > >Google (unsurprisingly). But I kept up with the solid content, and > >eventually Google found me. Then others found me through Google, and > >started linking to me, and up I went in rank. Today my website is way > >up there with related Wikipedia entries and other high-ranking sites. > >Total amount of SEO effort: zero. Draw your own conclusions. > > > > > >T > > And the address of that hobby website would be ...?
http://eusebeia.dyndns.org/4d If you search for "4D space" or "4D Euclidean space" it comes out on the 4th result in the first page. Other related search terms vary in rank, but a good number of 4D-related keywords have my website on the first page, for example "16-cell", "24-cell", etc., which appear right below the corresponding Wikipedia and Wolfram Mathworld pages. If you search for "bilunabirotunda" (admittedly, that's a very rare search term :P), my website outranks Wolfram Mathworld. :P The page ranks do vary quite a bit depending on the exact search term, but remember, I did absolutely *zero* SEO here -- not even to organize my pages in ways recommended by most SEO experts. T -- Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? -- Hobbes, from Calvin & Hobbes
