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SEO Tip: Increase Your Site Size |
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Friday, 11 May 2007 |
Sorry about the pun in the title, but I couldn't resist. The bigger a site appears, the more search engine love the site will get, which means more "pages" of that site will be indexed within the engines...So what does a guy with anywhere from low to high amounts of content pages, with a good directory of links do? Make his site appear to have more pages than it really does.
Example:
In my links directory, I go from having " Link To A Cool Site" pointing to www.site.com to having " Link to A Cool Site" pointing to " http://www.mattparnell.com/link-to-a-cool-site.html" which redirects to www.site.com. Search engines then see that outlink as being an actual content page on my site.
Basically we make every outlink in our links directory appear to be a content page. Personally, I use Mambo CMS coupled with the 404 SEF component. I am able to make every link on my site have any file extension I desire. Since my links directory has a click counter script that forwards people to the link after it records their click, I am able to make this all work. I have my file extension set to be .html, and so far this has worked out very well. My site went from having 3XX pages indexed to having 13XX pages indexed. If you are using hard-coded pages, or are using a different CMS, you can find click counter scripts at hotscripts, and using those and .htaccess rewrites, you can achieve the same effect. Now get to work, and give it a try!
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