Why is there still a web archive for the newsgroup?

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 23 08:19:53 PDT 2014


On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 15:12:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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

duckduckgo.com:

4D Euclidean space = 2nd result
4D space = 3rd result (not counting the sponsored link)


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