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I just tried. If you Google "AnimalLoversWeb.com forum" you come up no. 1 on page 1! Ditto "Animal Lovers Web forum". That's good. Of course, "animalloversweb.com", because it lacks the word "forum", is not so good in the search - bottom of page 2. But anyone with a bit of determination should be able to find the new site.
It would have been better if the old site (animaloversweb.com) ceased to exist. Unfortunately, it still exists, but trying to sell courses for a "get rich quick" scheme. This could confuse a few people not used to Googling.
But congratulations on your choice of name, Catherine. The way to find us is now fairly easy via Google.
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03-05-2014, 04:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-05-2014, 04:51 AM by Tobi.)
Yesterday I tested our site by just googling "Animal Lovers Forums" (pretending I was someone who had not heard of our site but was interested in that subject.)
With those keywords only, our forum came up about halfway down NO. 1 page.
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The actual proper name of the old forum was AnimalLoversWeb.com Forum. Animalloversweb.com was a blog and news letter site and I think some other things. The forum came latter
Actually if I leave the word forum off, I get old YouTube and photos from the original site. There are all copyrighted so we can't use any of them. I did find the site that tells us that the old name is still owned and when it is going to be available. it is amazing what you can find on the internet.
At any rate we come up in a Google search pretty good now days. Not bad for the short time the site has been up and running.
LPC, I can't find the link to the get rich quick scheme that you mentioned. Maybe it matters where you Google from or else I entered it differently. It will be better when it expires.
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03-09-2014, 05:41 AM
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Great news. It doesn't take long to get yourself noticed on the world wide web.
A couple of suggestions in case you're interested:
1) Submit "tag/key" words that relate to the forum. Bock can help with this.
2) Also submit to Bing etc. I'm not sure why you had to pay to submit your URL? I've never heard of that?? Unless you're paying to boost your ranking? We can discuss that sometime if you'd like.
Also, If you 'google' your address each time alternating between the various search engines, it will boost your ranking significantly in all the search engines. It can be a bit of a pain doing this but we did it when our site was new and our site went to the top of the page in all search engines in no time!
I am lazy by nature and for a while just had our site on my 'favorites'. Used it all the time, until I figured out it was not helping with our page ranking, lol!
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This whole thing is a learning experience. We have been at it going on 3 years now and are still learning new things every day, and there is still so much more to be learned.
Our biggest hangup seems to be how to get more exposure without having to pay an arm and a leg for advertising.