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stuartpengs
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:00 pm
Posts: 300
Location: In the night garden.
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Just been on the other halfs laptop, so I had to google x404 instead of using a bookmark. Interesting to see what it brought up. Note top link.  http://search.msn.co.uk/results.aspx?q=www.x404.co.uk&FORM=MSNH90&mkt=en-gb
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| Sun May 10, 2009 2:12 pm |
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm
Posts: 5071
Location: Manchester
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Yeah, swearing will really encourage people to visit the site...
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koli
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:12 pm
Posts: 1171
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Mega lolz  Wonder what kind of people will join after seeing that, they will think we all bunch of raging 15 year olds. I think it is bad karma catching up with us for spamming old TMP with all those swear words...
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AlunD
Site Admin
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:12 am
Posts: 7011
Location: Wiltshire
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Not good 
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soddit112
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:12 pm
Posts: 2020
Location: Mute City
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zomg!!!!! thats my sig on CPC!!! XD
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm
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Does anybody actually use MSN search anyway?
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm
Posts: 5071
Location: Manchester
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Also no one will actually be searching for the url of the website i don't think, of you search for x404 in google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=x404&i ... =firefox-a
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| Sun May 10, 2009 2:56 pm |
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stuartpengs
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:00 pm
Posts: 300
Location: In the night garden.
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Ah yes, I see. Stupid laptop/misses/thingy/not google/blahblah. 
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Danstevens
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:44 pm
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Just lol at our flaming and how they're top on a search engine.
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ChurchCat
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:57 am
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So how do we fix that? Do we post " x404 the fun place to be " as often as we can and then link to it? index.php_________________A Mac user 
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
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 No - the site has an index.html page which has a link on it, right? Right - get semantic with that page. You want to out in some keywords and other data for Google’s search bot to get busy with. If you have HTML like this in the body of the page, you may start to get reasonable links:  | | | | Code: <h1>x404 - the home for the ex-Dennis publisher’s forum users</h1> <p>When Dennis changed their forums for the worse, we decided to set up our own forum preserving. Now readers of <en>MacUser</em>, <em>PCPro</em> [insert other magazine titles in the same format here] can get together and discuss a broad range of subjects.</p> <h2>Forums for Mac users</h2> <p><a href="URL for the mac boards here>Talk about Macs and their workings here</a></p> <h2>Forum for Linux users</h2> <p><a href="URL for the Linux boards here>Talk about Macs and their workings here</a></p> <h2>Forum for Windows users</h2> <p><a href="URL for the Windows boards here>Talk about Macs and their workings here</a></p> <h2>The Meeting Place</h2> <p><a href="URL for the Meeting Place boards here>General chatter and fun</a></p> [i]Continue in same vein for photography, HiFi etc..[/i] | | | | |
The h1, h2 tags are really handy as they tell Google that they are a heading, and it will rank following content if it appears relevant to the heading. So use a keyword in the h tag, and repeat it in the following paragraph - what I have given is an example - you need to figoure out the best working so that it]s compelling for both Google and humans. Remember, that text will be shown in Google’s search results. The links help reinforce this, and spidered content from those links will get fed into the index. Don’t make the index.html page auto direct to the forum, as Google will see this as a form of spamming. However, as long as this landing page is accessible to humans (which it is), and doesn’t conceal anything, it will be perfectly accessible to have it as a start page for the site.
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
Posts: 8767
Location: behind the sofa
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The people that posted the swearing go and edit there posts to something more fluffy, much as you suggest. Swearing might have been fun at the time, but it's not big or clever to leave it there for all and every person to read for evermore The MS bots are pretty fast to update - much more so than Google. _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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soddit112
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:12 pm
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Location: Mute City
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yeh, um, about that... im sure if someone who hasnt been banned asked a mod/admin/person with the appropriate account access rights to change my sig, they would be more than happy to 
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