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How did you learn about the Greenville Discussion on Urban Planet?

Started by RestedTraveler , Feb 21 2006 08:07 AM

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How did you learn about the Greenville Discussion on Urban Planet?

An Internet Search (Google, etc.) for a Particular Topic or Subject led me here (PLEASE SPECIFY) (30 votes [85.71%])
Percentage of vote: 85.71%
I heard about it through Word of Mouth (0 votes [0.00%])
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I read about U.P. in a Magazine or News Paper (PLEASE SPECIFY) (1 votes [2.86%])
Percentage of vote: 2.86%
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I learned about U.P. from a posting on another forum (MySpace, Skyscraperpage.com, etc. - PLEASE SPECIFY) (1 votes [2.86%])
Percentage of vote: 2.86%
Are you kidding? Urban Planet is Wicked Famous! (3 votes [8.57%])
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#21 Skyliner

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Posted 19 March 2006 - 07:40 PM

Greenville, on Feb 21 2006, 04:28 PM, said:

I did a Google search last summer for something Greenville-related..."Greenville skyline photos" perhaps. UrbanPlanet was not on the first page of results, but I am so glad I found it!

You'll be glad to know that UrbanPlanet.org is the top site on a Google search using keywords: <greenville highrise>. It has been the same for at least several weeks now. :yahoo:

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#22 Spartan

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Posted 20 March 2006 - 12:39 AM

gsupstate, on Mar 2 2006, 03:51 PM, said:

I did both a "Google" and "Yahoo" search recently, and UP comes up much closer to the top on Google. How do search engines determine where in line a subject comes up?

I am not 100% sure how that works. I'll see if I can get an answer to that

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#23 RestedTraveler

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Posted 20 March 2006 - 10:10 AM

Have y'all checked these sites recently? I've been hard pressed to find any links to U.P. for anything where it used to come up near the top almost always.

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#24 Neo

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Posted 20 March 2006 - 11:12 AM

RestedTraveler, on Mar 20 2006, 11:10 AM, said:

Have y'all checked these sites recently? I've been hard pressed to find any links to U.P. for anything where it used to come up near the top almost always.

I have implemented some new technologies that run in the background to help with this issue. A few months ago we switched advertising publishers from Google to Yahoo and just a couple of weeks ago the effects of the switch were being made apparent. Advertising with Google or Yahoo is not supposed to increase your rank according to their agreements but we have found out that may not be 100% true. We are now displaying advertisements through Google once more and have installed a couple of applications to crawl our own pages and put them into an easy to read log for Google to index. Hopefully the changes that have been made in the last few days will show up on Google's search engine rankings soon.

We're definately sorry for the inconvenience and had I known that this would be the end result of switching advertising publishers I never would have made the switch. Know that we are working on the issue however.