About SEO

[Dark_Hunter]

Hey, I noticed in the URL that the title of the thread, I also noticed it does words below 3 or less, like "the" and "is" not sure if you all know this but Google ignores words less than 3 letters. Sorry if you don't get it.

 

[erich37]

so what is your suggestion in order to improve this ?

 

[Floren]

Google does NOT ignore 3- letter words.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Just+a+Fancy+Way+of+Saying

 

[mrGTB]

I've heard also that when writing a title for an article you should try and avoid 1,2 and 3 common words like: "the, and, is, was, a, it" e.t.c. But people will still use them because they are so commonly used words.

Must admit though, when I used WordPress and wrote articles. I did avoid using them in titles. Not as easy to do as you might think too.

 

[Shamil]

It doesn't help, but if they're in the thread title, then you can't help it, or you can retitle the thread.

 

[erich37]

when you have this:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/semantic-html.892/

...... then you are allowed to write any words you like

 

[mrGTB]

Talking forums, it's pretty impossible to stop members using them. You need to be running a site where only you start things, so have full control over the titles used. Hence why I brought-up using WordPress as a prime an example.

Unless of course you allow members to join your Blog and start articles.

 

[erich37]

LOL
you better go and use WordPress then, great idea !

But you can also start a Forum, at which members are not allowed to use words like "this", "is", "the", "end", "my", "friend".

That is actually a great business-idea for a targeted niche-Forum

 

[Forsaken]

I've heard also that when writing a title for an article you should try and avoid 1,2 and 3 common words like: "the, and, is, was, a, it" e.t.c. But people will still use them because they are so commonly used words.

Must admit though, when I used WordPress and wrote articles. I did avoid using them in titles. Not as easy to do as you might think too.

Using them in the title is perfectly fine, you just need to drop the common words from the url.

 

[Floris]

These days when I see "SEO" I read "I hate vBSEO".

 

[Dark_Hunter]

I guess I was mistaken, because Google use to say this " the follow is to common and was not included in your search."

 

[Shamil]

I guess I was mistaken, because Google use to say this " the follow is to common and was not included in your search."

That only applies to searching and not indexing iirc.

 

[Dark_Hunter]

Oh, ok then.

 

[Cupara]

What made SEO popular? vBSEO did, SEO was non-existent on forums until then. Kier and Mike have taken a step towards what SEO truly represents. Not rankings, money, but a means to search and find those sites/topics more accurately.

 

[Dean]

What made SEO popular? vBSEO did

I'm certainly confused, did not know google and other search engines had so much respect for forums at all, let alone a specific company.

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[Nick]

I'm certainly confused, did not know google and other search engines had so much respect for forums at all, let alone a specific company.

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I think he means, as he said in the rest of his post, that before vBSEO came along, SEO wasn't a big "thing" in the forum industry (as in, it wasn't something forum administrators were really concerned with).

 

[Shamil]

I think he means, as he said in the rest of his post, that before vBSEO came along, SEO wasn't a big "thing" in the forum industry (as in, it wasn't something forum administrators were really concerned with).

The other way round, lol.

 

[Nick]

The other way round, lol.

Huh? Isn't:

vBSEO did, SEO was non-existent on forums until then.

saying the same as:

before vBSEO came along, SEO wasn't a big "thing" in the forum industry

 

[Shamil]

Huh? Isn't: saying the same as:

Apart from that non-existant != not a big thing, yes. I mean Abomination got it the wrong way round.

 

[x3sphere]

Hey, I noticed in the URL that the title of the thread, I also noticed it does words below 3 or less, like "the" and "is" not sure if you all know this but Google ignores words less than 3 letters. Sorry if you don't get it.

They used to omit some three-letter words. Not anymore.

As far as vBSEO is concerned, it's useless on a 4.x board. vB 3.8.x did have some duplicate content and canonicalization issues (easily fixable yourself, however). vB 4 is fixed in this regard. Even still, Google is usually smart enough to filter out supplemental content pages even without the help of nofollow (like a 'show printable' page, etc).

I know this won't change the mind of people who swear by it, but whatever It's your money not mine.