well i can tell you what it will take to beat them and come up highest
if you look under the memberzs in the menu u will see members websites
theres now only 3
we have almost 8000 members
if only 10% srtart sa dread related website with dreads and dreadlocks linked back here t would get us on the 1st page for those terms not to mention bring us alot of trafic from those sites themselves
linking other key words or phrases as well will help us rank higher for those terms
the way google works is 1st it ranks you based on whats on your sites pages, but then it looks at the entuire web and who links to you using what words as links and judhges the relevency of the site (is it dread related) as well as the authority (who links to it) and you pass on whats called link juice the more link juice your site gets the higher the authority on a given subject you are
this is why wiki ranks so high millions of sites linking to it on every conceivable subject makes it the highest authority on everything
so if every 1 of you set up a blog or a info site or even just an online \photo gallery with a page of text and some links here it would help a ton
quality links not spammy links that site that hacked us and will not be named has twice as many links to it as we do but get almost no traffic cause all the links are spam links in blog comments
instead links in the main body content are best concider themk refference links the refference being the site your site conciders the highest authority on the subject
if we had a few thousand we would anchor our position at number 1
dhhq and dreadlocks.com have 1 advantage that we cant overcome easily
domain age
seniority is also a rankmibng factor
and theres 1 thing that i think we ned to complain about
dmoz.org the open directory project is a human edited directory and being included in it also affects your ranking oin other search engines
well the dradlocks category has \
dreadlocks.com dreadheadhq and howtodread (or perfectdreadlocks) forget which 3 dhhq clones
nothi9ng else and they refuse to list anything else there are thousands of sites but they only alow those 3..im guessing dhhq 's jonny scumbag is the editror
but
like i said if most of you creatd a site ..easy to do and i can help you..then linked here that would help us out alot
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