{"id":10292,"date":"2011-08-05T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=10292"},"modified":"2015-07-22T15:34:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T22:34:27","slug":"high-comment-count-high-google-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/high-comment-count-high-google-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"High Comment Count = High Google Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back at the end of October 2009, I came across a disturbing post about fake soldiers bilking unsuspecting lonely singles out of their hard-earned money.<\/h3>\n

Running an internet dating site, I felt it only right that I should share this post with my readers and warn them about the dangers of military dating scams.<\/p>\n

Little did I know what a beneficial effect that one post would have on my site!<\/p>\n

Next to the homepage, that is the most-visited post on the site – with 8.69% of the traffic<\/strong> over the course of a month going directly to that page.<\/p>\n

I attribute that success to the continuing run of comments made since the day the post was published.<\/p>\n

As of August 5th, there have been 768 comments<\/strong> made on that post and they keep coming in….<\/p>\n

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So rather than dying a slow death and disappearing into the depths of long-forgotten posts (on a blog that doesn't get very much attention anymore), that post still ranks high for it's original keywords – ‘military dating scams<\/a>‘ (3rd), ‘fake soldiers' (2nd) and ‘fake soldier scam' (top 2 positions).<\/p>\n

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The reason the homepage also shows up in the search is because I added a link to the post from the homepage after it became so popular.<\/p>\n

Granted, although I was never looking to rank for terms that included ‘dating scam' on a site that promotes internet dating services, the point is to go with the flow and try your best to make conversions.<\/p>\n

In this case, I added a link to a well-known and respected dating service that caters to military singles. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

You can see the original post about military dating scams<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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