Seems like more bots are crawling. Not sure what more I could expect after these few days. Still, progress!

Okay, that raises another issue I have been thinking about. Metrics. Bottom line, for a site like mine (no adsense), the only metric that counts is new members. But much of that is content and presentation driven. There is nothing vBSEO can do about the content, if it's bad, members won't join, if good...well, you get the idea. So, number of pages indexed, PR, all these other things are nifty and exciting, but like all SEO, all they indicate is that more folks are able to find my site. I suppose there would be some good lessons drawn, like if I had a high number of uniques, but low registration, probably somethng wrong with my content. The corrolary is true, if I had a high percentage of registrations against visits to my page, the content must be interesting to members.
Bottom line, this should not be a surprise, SEO can only optimize opportunity for folks to see the page. A good page without SEO is not likely to do well. A bad page with SEO is also not likely to do well. Kinda obvious, but worth remembering.

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