Comments on: SEO Chat Dirt - and Forum Poll info.

By: Brian Turner

Brian Turner — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:12:24 +0000

You’re right, John - it was a more complicated discussion, which started on one issue, then glengara brought webuildpages in as an example of a site blocking bots and ranking on anchors.

You mentioned doing something similar for QWH, and how after disallowing Google with a robots text, it jumped up the SERPs for its keyword anchors.

By: Tom Forrest

Tom Forrest — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:35:42 +0000

Hi,

I liked reading this.

Very interesting.

So what is the best SEO forum to read now?

I think Jim Boykin and Randfish are two of the best people to learn from.

By: John Scott

John Scott — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:31:22 +0000

Brian, I don’t recall Jim’s site ever ranking on anchor text alone. Maybe I am missing something here, but as far as I can recall, he always had the keywords on page.

By: Brian Turner

Brian Turner — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:27:20 +0000

I remember when John Scott drew attention to your site ranking only on anchor text, no indexed pages.

I joined another webmaster forum, where the SEO section didn’t seem to know about the importance of links. After a couple of posts, the moderator there started deleting my posts and sending me pretty nasty PMs. Funnily enough, for a large forum, it was pretty dead, too.