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There are a lot of illusions about what search engines give priority to and what gets you better placement.
For instance, how many times have we heard that it takes months to get a site into Google. It's never taken me more than a week.
I run a totally obscure site called genealogyland.com that has higer page ranking because of two things.
1. A Dead Celebrities list that can sometimes get thousands of hits a day
depending on who dies.
2. A new blog that hundreds of people have visited in the last few days.
Neither has anything to do with how I coded those pages. It all has to do with content and user activity. In fact, the dead celebrities page is one giant TABLE.
I am re-designing it for 2010 so i can include more ads, but it would have too much retrofit to do it for 2009. I considered databasing it but I have since blown off that idea. I want the content static so the bots find ALL the content ALL the time.
As for my old school teachers, I came from a pretty pathetic school system that believed far more in Athletics than Academics and it still does, some thirty years later. Academics was never my forte, but I have been writing for publication since age 15. (My First Byline) I've been writing for 34 years now in five different states and dozens of different publications. Plus the content of dozens of web sites over the last 20 years.
Last edited by chrishirst; 11-17-2009 at 03:29 AM..
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