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Re: Mormon Church website a good example of SEO

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Post by dabent »

gchucky wrote: post #10

The article's site is being pretty slow, but it's been cached at http://kyleclouse.com.nyud.net/mormons-lds-church-seo/ .

That's odd with it being mid week. The traffic to LDS.org is the opposite of most sites - it actually peaks on Sunday with lulls during the week. There are two significant peaks during the year, one the first week in October, the other the first week in April, when the church holds it's semi-annual General Conference for all members to see.

Edit: to note that I eventually realized that it was the article, not the LDS.org site that was slow. I'll leave my notes in place, because it's an interesting traffic pattern to see.

Re: Mormon Church website a good example of SEO

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Post by thirsteh »

A Google evangelist recommends following the example of a site which pushes its page menu through uncrawlable JavaScript. I'm disappointed.

And did they just reach a high rating with their front page (which is not impressive considering the tremendous backlinking they must have), or are all their pages and all the terms on all their pages ranking equally well?

Re: Mormon Church website a good example of SEO

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Post by spoiledtechie »

darkhorse wrote: post #9

the fact that a multinational organization with revenues in the billions can do SEO is not at all impressive to me. furthermore, you really need to question your belief system and analytical processes if you follow a church founded by a guy who thought he could find treasure by looking at a rock in a hat (he was also a convicted fraudster).

You might be right on the first comment, but you are fully wrong on the second. I suggest if you plan on ever making a comment about the Mormon church again, you at least do it justice by reading The Book of Mormon.

Re: Mormon Church website a good example of SEO

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Post by charliepark »

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #20

The UX team at the LDS church is second to none. They made a concerted effort several years ago to hire the best (within certain ecclesiastical constraints) and I think they've succeeded. I would hire any of them. They have a strongly, user-driven dev process that brings high fidelity mock-ups into the process well before development starts. UX works directly with the customers (different organizations in the church)…

Their tumblelog (http://northtemple.com/) is also really great. I'm consistently impressed with the links, quotes, images, and other stuff they post there.

Re: Mormon Church website a good example of SEO

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Post by shawnee_ »

I am LDS, and it's true that there are a lot of very competent techies who are members.

The two major factors that likely influence the high ranking are : as mentioned. (1) the SEO is affected by links pointing at the site from external sources like LDS bloggers, and (2) the comprehensive system of cross-referencing that the site has implemented through its web-based scriptures. For example:

http://lds.org/scriptures/pgp?lang=eng

because the LDS Church's major "message" is how the Book of Mormon is supplementary and complementary to the Bible, as it is a record of God's dealings with people on the American continent during "ancient" American times.

Re: Mormon Church website a good example of SEO

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Post by darkhorse »

js2 wrote: post #18
darkhorse wrote: post #9

the fact that a multinational organization with revenues in the billions can do SEO is not at all impressive to me. furthermore, you really need to question your belief system and analytical processes if you follow a church founded by a guy who thought he could find treasure by looking at a rock in a hat (he was also a convicted fraudster).

I flagged this for being wholly inappropriate and insulting. Denigrating someone else's belief system is not appreciated here.

nothing i said was factually incorrect.

the truth hurts i guess.

it's pretty funny that you revisionist history mormon apologists will claim that his 1826 trial records are fake, but think gold tablets sent by angels and never seen by anyone are real. that's super consistent.

Re: Mormon Church website a good example of SEO

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Post by pchristensen »

dabent wrote: post #21
gchucky wrote: post #10

The article's site is being pretty slow, but it's been cached at http://kyleclouse.com.nyud.net/mormons-lds-church-seo/ .

That's odd with it being mid week. The traffic to LDS.org is the opposite of most sites - it actually peaks on Sunday with lulls during the week. There are two significant peaks during the year, one the first week in October, the other the first week in April, when the church holds it's semi-annual General Conference for all members to see. Edit: to note that I eventually realized that it was the article, not the LDS…

semi-annual General Conference for all members to see

which is video streamed in several languages and audio streamed in many dozens of languages. It has been getting better every year for at least 7 years now. It's now to the point that it doesn't really matter whether I'm watching it on my TV through satellite or over the internet.

Re: Mormon Church website a good example of SEO

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Post by Locke1689 »

spoiledtechie wrote: post #23
darkhorse wrote: post #9

the fact that a multinational organization with revenues in the billions can do SEO is not at all impressive to me. furthermore, you really need to question your belief system and analytical processes if you follow a church founded by a guy who thought he could find treasure by looking at a rock in a hat (he was also a convicted fraudster).

You might be right on the first comment, but you are fully wrong on the second. I suggest if you plan on ever making a comment about the Mormon church again, you at least do it justice by reading The Book of Mormon.

No religious discussions on HN please. This is off topic.

Re: Mormon Church website a good example of SEO

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Post by Jach »

darkhorse wrote: post #27
js2 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I flagged this for being wholly inappropriate and insulting. Denigrating someone else's belief system is not appreciated here.

nothing i said was factually incorrect. the truth hurts i guess. it's pretty funny that you revisionist history mormon apologists will claim that his 1826 trial records are fake, but think gold tablets sent by angels and never seen by anyone are real. that's super consistent.

You're not being downvoted because you disagree with Mormonism or their so-called prophet, I'm sure many of us here do as well, but because you're being abrasive and incredibly off-topic. Save your trolling for someplace else, or start a "Tell HN: Mormonism sucks" thread and see how far that gets you.
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