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Originally Posted by TxG
What does that mean actually? Is it like, the person earns money from an advertiser just for putting the ad on his site, that is, the advertiser pays him whether visitors click on the ad or not?
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Yep, that's exactly right, TxG. This can be done directly by the webmaster or through a third party like company adbrite.com
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Originally Posted by KevinCamon
I ran across a site today that is ranked number in the google search engine for that topic... Also, the website has NO design layout whatsoever? ...
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Hi Kevin, just curious, what keywords is the forum ranked at the top for?
Like TxG mentioned, the age of the forum plays a key role in its high ranking. But, I would speculate that search engines rank the content from active forums highly, because, if you think about it, forum discussions address very specific questions that may not be found in websites. So a forum would contain unique content that gets updated fairly regularly.
As far as the point you made about the design... this goes to support the principle that good content will always beat a pretty design in the search engine rankings.