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Originally Posted by jódete
yeah ur right jill , better looking themes dont matter. how bout u n i promote a jayz / 50 cent concert venue in downtown LA using a throw-away skinhead theme , think tickets will sell ????
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Your response has nothing to do with my post. For example, I didn't say to try to sell MILF content using a teen theme. Please read slower and try to keep on topic when you reply.
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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
In the after-Panda world? YES, they are extremely important. You must know the main Google slogan. It says: make sites for the real people.
So now Google is ranking your site depending on the user activity. It watches for the surfers via its spying tools (Chrome, Google Toolbar, Google Analytics etc) and estimates their experience (bounce rate, average time on site, % of bookmarkers and many other parameters).
Thus if you site looks cheap and contains only boring articles which was written by "SEO gurus", any real visitor will close it even before it will be fully loaded into the browser. You can buy 1000's links, but such site will never be rated well by Google.
On the other hand, if your site has a breathtaking design and is filled with tons of eye-catching content such as videos and images, you visitors will browse it, add to their bookmarks, give it likes in various social networks etc. And it doesn't matter if your content is really unique or not (even Google by itself has 0% of unique content), it will attract the real surfers and be sure that Google will be notified about that.
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Glad my answer stirred up some response.
What's "better" looking may not be the best choice?don't confuse aesthetics with functionality (though it's ideal that the two go hand-in-hand).
In our last Educational Series article, Spike mentioned that members retain longer in Homegrown because there is a 'labyrinth' style members area. I'm not trying to compare apples to oranges - IF user behavior can be applied across the board then if Google is rating based on user activity, perhaps a pretty site isn't as important as utilizing a lay out that keeps your surfers clicking.
Furthermore, there is some room to argue that what I may find pleasing to the eye is not the same for everyone else.
Ultimately it's about testing to see which theme yields the best results for your traffic.