A first timer "Thank You" to all of you.

it's not all about the turkey....

[paulo]

After reading many of your posts on how to be nice to the Googlebot. I finally got my site on top for the main search words.

Even though I've been making pages for a long time, they were mostly personal pages that I didn't want crawled. So I never had any interest in making bot-friendly pages.

Till last month, when a friend of mine asked to redo his site and find a way to get him up on Google. I guess I was bored and said "sure, no problem". I thought, we were still under the meta tags solution...

I had a rude awakening when I started reading all the posts over here. I thought "it is insane to design according to what googlebot likes or not". Too much control on the hand of a few, and engineers nonetheless :)

But... I bit the bullet and started modifying the site according to what you guys said, and voila. It wroked!(sp)

Now I have to keep reading and modifying to make sure that this "everflux"(I still don't grasp it) doesn't change the positioning much.

So Thank You all for sharing the knowledge and hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I did!

[troels nybo nielsen]

Welcome to WW, paulo.

Don't worry about the everflux. I don't grasp it either. (As a secret between you and me: I don't think the experts grasp it).

Troels

[deejay]

:) Congratulations on your success paulo... and welcome to the 'talkative' side of WebmasterWorld!

[Bronte]

I too would like to thank everyone here at Webmasterworld.

I started work on my new site a month ago. I kept it content-rich, and used many of the useful tips found here (esp. Brett's step-by-step guide) to make it search-engine friendly. Was visited by Googlebot on a daily basis, and post-update I'm now ranking very well for some good keywords.

So thanks again for this excellent resource.

I'm off now to write some more content and work on my links in time for the next update...

[troels nybo nielsen]

Welcome to WW, Bronte.

I'm off too. For the same reason.

[deejay]

Welcome Bronte!

hehe.. I'm off too.. having mumble mumble many gins....

hey.... a girl cannot live by google alone (although it's a damn close-run race)... and after all... update or no, it's still Friday night here.

[troels nybo nielsen]

Nice website design, deejay. But PR2?

Be a nice girl.

[JLindsay]

I mentioned it on the Google update thread, but it got lost quickly and so I wanted to also say another big thanks to everyone here who has taken the time to help us newcomers get results. We seem to have done well this time round in large part by taking the advice on the boards. Cheers! :)

[troels nybo nielsen]

One more new member!?

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, JLindsay

Yes, WW is an incredible source for good and sound advice for webmasters.

[Brett_Tabke]

Thanks Paulo and welcome to the board.

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[paulo]

My appologies for posting in the wrong forum.

And thank you Brett for pointing out the threads about Everflux. No mo' fears here.

I didn't thank you specifically before, but your concise guide to a "Successful Site in 12 Months" was very helpful to get me up to speed.

Hope I'll soon be able to give something back to the community.