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Recently I posted a discussion "Uniting On Facebook". Many of us have now added each other as "friends" as well as "fans" of each others business/personal pages. Congratulations on that show of unity and support of your fellow therapists!
Now, I am suggesting we unite our websites. Any takers? Most search engines have "crawlers" that scan the web. The more your website address appears in those "crawls" among other websites, the more visible you shall become.
If you are interested and have a "Favorite Links" page on your website, please add those that contribute their websites. If you are interested in gaining more exposure and do not have a "Links" page, please add one to your website and display your fellow MTs sites.
Remember: the more your website appears on other pages, the more visible it becomes!
Now, I am suggesting we unite our websites. Any takers? Most search engines have "crawlers" that scan the web. The more your website address appears in those "crawls" among other websites, the more visible you shall become.
If you are interested and have a "Favorite Links" page on your website, please add those that contribute their websites. If you are interested in gaining more exposure and do not have a "Links" page, please add one to your website and display your fellow MTs sites.
Remember: the more your website appears on other pages, the more visible it becomes!
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Permalink Reply by Vlad on
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Rick made a good point there - nobody knows the ins and outs of the algorithms that google or the other search engines use. I read an article a couple of years ago on link building on website mag which pretty much states that yes, the links to your site should be from a relevant site (that has to do with massage therapy), which is probably why you see quite a few people link to their site from here! I'd be wary of turning a site into a link farm too though.
Just an FYI: Website magazine is a free mag that anyone with a website should get. If you got to their website and search for seo you'll get lots of good info, but be aware of the date since sometimes the seo theories can get out of date.
If you plug in google analytics into your site you'll also see where you're getting referral links from, what keywords they're using to find your site etc. It's a brilliant tool. Everybody with a website should use it. Looking at analytics tonight I see that I got 6 hits from from your site, Marissa - it might have been you testing it! Massageangels.com and massagenetwork.com usually show up on my list every month. Google organic and yahoo organic are the top ones for me though and yahoo local is a biggie too.
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Julie
I think there is a way of getting around the password protected crawling on some CMS software (where crawling is done on the site even if it is password protected), but I'm not sure what ning uses as a baseline. I'd think it would be to their benefit to make sure it was crawled, but that's just me guessing.
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Permalink Reply by Marissa on
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It wasn't me! See, it does work! :)
Vlad said:Looking at analytics tonight I see that I got 6 hits from from your site, Marissa - it might have been you testing it!
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Permalink Reply by Julie Onofrio on
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It's probably just everyone from here.
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Linking for seo purposes is totally different from referral links - I should have stressed that.
Julies right - it may been just people from here though.
As for google analytics, I'm only suggesting that everyone should plug in google analytics as a monitoring tool and look at it every month - they should check where they are with the organic listings pretty frequently too. I had a link to my site from site that is owned by the place that I work in and their site went offline for about a month (and I back-linked to their site). It hurt me in the organic listings - it was crazy that just one link made that much of a difference. When they got their site back up again, I was bumped up again. Crazy.....
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Rick - I turn on AdWords at certain times of year (Christmas, Mothers day and Valentines day) for online gift certificate sales
It was great when I first started (and didn't rank high in the organic listings) but there's a drawback to it that I didn't like. I put up with it at certain times of the year anyway, and maybe it's because I'm a control freak that this irked me a wee bit. The google ad can get pulled into a site using AdSense and I didn't have control over what sites were pulling it in. So it could have been a site that had "questionable" massage related content.
I still use it anyway periodically.
If anyone is looking at this and wondering what we're on about, just go into google and set up an account with them and look at the section on analytics. Adwords is for placing an ad (they're the ones off to the right if you do a search) Adsense can make a wee bit of money, but I'd be wary of putting it on a regular massage business site since it drives people away from your site - you could put them on a blog though. They've got brilliant help tutorials and lots of cool stuff.
Talking of google, if anyone wants an entertaining wee read, get Bonnie Browns book, "Giigle". She's a massage therapist that became a millionaire working as a massage therapist at Google. She was partly paid in stock options (she was smart to ask for that). It's not going to win any prizes for literature, but there is one part of it that made me laugh out loud.
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