Why is there still a web archive for the newsgroup?

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 23 07:30:56 PDT 2014


On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 14:12:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:35:18AM +0000, w0rp via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I wonder what effect this has on PageRank. I have been told 
>> that
>> Google can identify a site as an originator of content some 
>> times, and
>> could reduce the rank of another site based on that, something 
>> like
>> that. Then again, all SEO is basically nonsense, due to nobody 
>> truly
>> understanding Google and the inevitable nature of Google 
>> growing too
>> complex for anyone to be able to take any action that isn't 
>> just "show
>> good content, format well."
>
> Which is the whole point of putting stuff online in the first 
> place. :-P
>
> 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 ...?


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