Save Fireflyfans.net
POSTED BY: dreamtrove
UPDATED: Monday, April 13, 2009 09:24
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I mentioned this several times, and here I am mentioning it again. FFF has been sinking in google rankings. It was once first on a search for "Firefly" which is why I'm here
By the beginning of this year, it was at 4th. Yesterday it had sunk to 8th. An hour ago it was 16th, now it is 17th.
Google page rank is run on number of incoming links, associated with the term firefly, and the activity of those links and the pages that they are on.
Without google search traffic, the chance of new firefly fans coming here drops off to zero. Now that the site is on page two of results, it's not going to be attracting any more users, this is something which happened just today.
If anyone cares, I thought I would mention it.
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What should I do?
http://www.swyzzlestyx.com/index.html
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So what is it we should be doing? I'm here whenever I have free time.
And when I google firefly, this place comes up ninth. Still not great, but apparently not as bad.
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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Google page rank is run on number of incoming links, associated with the term firefly, and the activity of those links and the pages that they are on.
It's somewhat expected as more and more sites that link to FFF.NET slowly die away. I'm not sure if there's much we can do to keep the Google ranking up there unless everyone goes around on public forums and provide a link back to us.
Anyone have suggestions?
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I wish there were a "Links" page on "Shiny Universe." Based on the current site build, I don't really see a place to link FFF.net over there. I'm pretty sure I found this place a couple months ago through a Google search, but it might have been from a link from Browncoats.com too...
Does "The Signal" have a links page? I'm not seeing one over there either. Hmm... one thing about Browncoats--we're a persistent bunch (even new ones like me), and I'd be willing to bet they'd click to a second page in search of fellow Browncoats.
That being said, more traffic here sure wouldn't hurt. =\ It'd be nice to have even more people still talking about Firefly/Serenity on a regular basis.
I don't suppose adding it to signatures on forum profiles elsewhere helps, does it? I can add to my signatures easily enough. :)
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As a new fan of Firefly (I just started and finished the series and the movie last week), I didn't have too much trouble finding these forums using a google search. So rest assured - people will still find this place ;)
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Originally posted by xxmonkeyz:
As a new fan of Firefly (I just started and finished the series and the movie last week), I didn't have too much trouble finding these forums using a google search.
Now that is good news. Isn't that good news? Has a kind of poetry to it...
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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Google page rank is run on number of incoming links, associated with the term firefly, and the activity of those links and the pages that they are on.
It's somewhat expected as more and more sites that link to FFF.NET slowly die away. I'm not sure if there's much we can do to keep the Google ranking up there unless everyone goes around on public forums and provide a link back to us.
Anyone have suggestions?
Absolutely!!
I don't use google, but the same techniques I use on yahoo should apply.
Use the search function on the search engine site. Every time I visit FFF.net I type into yahoo's search fireflyfans, and get the link. I do this for various purposes, including cookie and tracking avoidance.
If I were to work the fff links, I'd also use Firefly and Serenity, anything you want to make linky. Make sure to only click on the result you want increased in rank. I've moved results from 104th or worse up to the top ten - that's just me alone, doing it so others can find things easier. It is not over night, can take weeks, and every 3 months or so the rankings get juggled, as different servers are rotated through, but consistency is rewarded.
I have done this for various car activities, car shows, car clubs, car forums, car info, etc - my car is the only reason I got on the net, really.
If yu have a specific site or thread other than fff.net that you want, because it has a fff linky, also click on that result once every day, and that linky will gain ranking, which should also increase the ranking of fff based on the strength of the linking site. I have noticed that as a correllary. for specific other sites, include both firefly or serenity and also an unusual word or phrase or combination to bring up the site, and eventually it will jump into the plain "firefly" serach results. Sometimes you need to take some time to skim through hundreds of serach results, but then the next day you know approx where to look, and you immediately notice jumps up in result rankings.
If a bunch of us do this, each day, I would think it would be more powerful than just me. I should say that over the years, I have not seen a noticable difference in doing more than once per day, but I do it anyhow for other reasons.
I have seen it work, but I cannot guarantee it works for google.
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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
Use the search function on the search engine site. Every time I visit FFF.net I type into yahoo's search fireflyfans, and get the link. I do this for various purposes, including cookie and tracking avoidance.
If yu have a specific site or thread other than fff.net that you want, because it has a fff linky, also click on that result once every day, and that linky will gain ranking, which should also increase the ranking of fff based on the strength of the linking site. I have noticed that as a correllary. for specific other sites, include both firefly or serenity and also an unusual word or phrase or combination to bring up the site, and eventually it will jump into the plain "firefly" serach results. Sometimes you need to take some time to skim through hundreds of serach results, but then the next day you know approx where to look, and you immediately notice jumps up in result rankings.
If a bunch of us do this, each day, I would think it would be more powerful than just me. I should say that over the years, I have not seen a noticable difference in doing more than once per day, but I do it anyhow for other reasons.
Sounds like something worth trying. Thanks!
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Originally posted by CellarDoor:
Does "The Signal" have a links page? I'm not seeing one over there either. Hmm... one thing about Browncoats--we're a persistent bunch (even new ones like me), and I'd be willing to bet they'd click to a second page in search of fellow Browncoats.
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Not at the moment. We used to, but stuff was going out of date too quickly and we ended up putting a link to the more comprehensive News Of The Verse site instead. Though I am not sure how active or current that is.
This may be something we should re-instate on the new Signal site. It's a work in progress, but I'll suggest that we look at this again.
Nick
( www.serenityfirefly.com)
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