SEO tip: get your keyword-laden site in a high PR forum, but don't spam!
I'm putting this post in Xara web design chat because this is particularly relevant to all Xartists who not only design websites but who also do SEO for their clients. The screenshot below shows the Google SERPs for a Google search"site:talkgraphics.com" without any search term. The last post on that page is a post I made on this forum just 9 hours ago. That's how fast Google will trawl a high PR website, especially a forum or a blog with lots of regularly-updated content, and that's why we get spammers here all the time putting their links into completely nonsensical posts, to try and "up" the PR of the sites they're linking to in those posts. Please use the "Report this post" button to help the moderators get rid of their annoying and time-wasting posts.
You could do the same thing as the spammers, but it's hard work and many of these spammers are in fact underpaid third-world country networkers working for fairly dodgy SEO firms, posting their links just about everywhere, just to get a high PR for their clients' sites, sites that will most probably plummet in month 2 or 3, once the campaign has stopped.
However, what you will also see from this is that sites with lots of regularly-updated content do get spidered and indexed by Google rapidly so, the message is this. Fill your website with relevant, interesting and engaging content, use social media to spread (but not spam) your message and, as they say, they will come.
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