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The HSIC · #1 01-30-2008, 09:26 AM

Morning peope!
Grab a bowl, have a seat and get comfy for a spell.

This post is an attempt to help grow GreenPassion.

We realize that our most valuable assest is...you. Maybe your in a band and have a website? maybe you have a myspace account?

We have banners posted here for swapping links.

Back links are the food and drink of the Internet. Without backlinks it (the Internet) might as well not exist.

Here's the science.

To gauge the importance of your website amongst its peers, Google and the like, look at the amount of people linking back to your website, as a guide to the "importance" of your site within that specific community.

so all of a sudden the search engine lottery isn't such a lottery any more. If you have a lot of back-links coming into your site, then it must be a 'well important' website right?

Well, yes and no!

Web marketeers quickly got wise to this quirk-of-the-search-engines and link farming systems were devised on the back of it.

Link farming programs are pieces of software you install on your website. Hundreds, (sometimes thousands) of other webmasters do the same thing, and an algorythim written into the script, shares the address's amongst the participant websites.

On the websites themselves, the webmaster must display an ugly list of web addresses, over which you have little or no control, so ANY type of site could potentially be listed on your front page, with all the problems that could bring you.

"But at least I got hundreds of backlinks dude, so its happy days right"?

Yes and no, dude!

You see, Google never got to be the most important thing since Microsoft by accident. They did it by being clever.

Link farming, (link exchange - call it what you will) soon shows up on the search engine "flag" lists and recurring webmasters soon find the link exchange program doing the exact opposite of what it was first designed to do.

Sandbox
Google implements a plan of action for websites which find themselves on the "flagged" list as possible spammers.

The Google computers incorporate a gadget called the "sandbox", and once your site gets put into the sandbox it can be there anything from 3 months to a year.

Whats a sandbox? Actually its called "the" sandbox, and rather than I try to explain it here, do a googe search for "sandbox" with the quotes and take my word for it on this - any information which purports to"show you how to get your website out of the sandbox", doesn't work.

In the meantime if you have serious intent for the longeivity of your website you might want to stay well clear of any sort of link exchanging program.

Backlinks
Healthy clean backlinks on the other hand. Earned and shared by like minds in similar communities, are absolute gold. The more you gather the more "important" your website "ranks".

PageRank
Page rank is just that. The rank, (in the eyes of Google) of your website, rated from 1 - 10, with one being low and 10 being impossible.

With common or important websites such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, BBC, Delicious etc rating between 6-8 and GreenPassion page rank a modest 3, but we're working on it :-)

Get yourself a healthy bunch of back links from websites with a high page rank and its happy days!

Every little bit of goodness from your linkers pagerank, spreads a little bit of goodness on you.

Good karma abounds and your search engine performance 'just improves' as a matter of course.

If you would like to know how you can improve your own website performance in the search engine lottery get in touch with GreenPassion. Its GREAT to talk!

In the meantime if you're serious about your website and you would like to arrange a backlink, drop us a line via the contact page.

It really does make a difference!

green_nobody · #2 01-30-2008, 10:05 AM

i can understand that you want to keep this growing video, but with size we also gain more visibility to the eyes of the DEA! i just made it thru a raid based on some limp internet evidence.
besides my concern here i surely will try to place some backlinks for GP...

The HSIC · #3 01-30-2008, 10:09 AM

Hey Green, while we really do not want to be the biggest, but we do want to be the best. In addition, we are currently entertaining about 100 different people a day right now.

I would like to increase that to about 250 people. I think we can do that, and still be very comfortable.
Peace

Hobo · #4 01-30-2008, 10:41 AM

Videoman i understand completely. I keep the spreading of the site around to word of mouth, because i know the types of member you are looking for, and rather than just spamming the info out to any old person, ill selectively try to solisicit some people into the site...

Although i must say.. there are alot of search critera where GP comes up on the first page of results... For example if you type, How to build an ebb and flow system for mairijuana... My tutorial is right there on the first page. Or if i type Stealth grow box, the rubbermaid growbox thread is right there. I Believe a lot more people are finding this site through search engines than you may be willing to believe.

Hobo · #5 01-30-2008, 10:44 AM

Green i would really like to hear more about this, what kind of evidence was obtained through the evidence. Did you think it was enough to arouse suspicion to the point of raiding your grow?

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Originally Posted by green_nobody

i can understand that you want to keep this growing video, but with size we also gain more visibility to the eyes of the DEA! i just made it thru a raid based on some limp internet evidence.
besides my concern here i surely will try to place some backlinks for GP...

midgradeindasouth · #6 01-30-2008, 10:56 AM

I agree with Hobo.

I did a search for medibud.

You were right there boom on top of the list. I searched right after I read your thread on it.

Other than you talking about it I think there was a company called Medibud.

I have yet to see any seeds available for it though.

green_nobody · #7 01-31-2008, 04:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Hobo

Green i would really like to hear more about this, what kind of evidence was obtained through the evidence. Did you think it was enough to arouse suspicion to the point of raiding your grow?

no, i was raided due to my name popping up in 2 previous raids - just promoting the idea of growing too much i guess

just recruited/started a new grower yesterday by giving him a hand with his closet grow - that one is also a new member here, basement-jack or so is his nick. but this time i make sure no one keeps my phone number in his grow

my concern was more based on what and how well the DEA got us under monitoring already and if we want to expose us more. sure i would like to have more fellow growers here online so we could chat a bit more then now but the price tag for this could be a bit heavy too.

green_nobody · #8 01-31-2008, 04:08 AM

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Originally Posted by videoman

Hey Green, while we really do not want to be the biggest, but we do want to be the best. In addition, we are currently entertaining about 100 different people a day right now.

I would like to increase that to about 250 people. I think we can do that, and still be very comfortable.
Peace

i know, the first few weeks you could easily read every thread and participate in it, by now there are already so many posts at once that i always fear to miss the best thoughts and news.