[Freebangfont-devel] RE: Pagerank

[Robin Upton]

Hi there,

The bottom line is that no one knows for sure (that is, no one who's
telling...) but a lot of factors are important. Google recently had a
big change to how they calculate PR, and the current implementation
has some notable anomolies (i.e. minor projects from big sites such
as SF get too much pagerank) so expect it to change quite a bit. The
empirical summary from people who do 'search optimisation' for a
living(?) is as follows:-

1) MetaKeywords are virtually irrelevant, and have been for a while now
        (add them in, they cost nothing, but they're just too easy to 
manipulate)
2) Title = Most important of all
        (look at title pages of popular sites)
3) Links from other sites
        (Very important in generatinq Page Rank , so a link from a PR N
         site will give the page N-1 if it has no other links )
4) Internal links within the site
        (Not so useful for PR, but not irrelevant)

Getting PR is a long term business - optimising the site for a particular
search term is easier; just do a search on the term you're interested in
and modify your page so as to look like the sites that come up highly. Easy.

To get to grips with PR, I recommend you find a copy of (cough) IE and
fit a googlebar to it, then navigate round via backwards link etc. keeping
an eye on the google PR indicator.

PR is updated monthly, about 25th of each month, they tell me, when the
monthly processing of the Google crawl happens. I'll link in some
relevant pages from www.altruists.org before the next update.

Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Kaushik Ghose
Sent: 18 November 2002 19:54
Cc: Bangla-Font
Subject: Re: [Bengalinux-core] Re: [Freebangfont-devel] (links and
Google rank)


Hi,
what about the effect of keywords and the title string and the page
contents ?

I mean the string "bengali otf" returns the bangal fonts site as the first
hit

"bangla otf" , 7th
"bangla opentype font", 16th
"bengali opentype font", I couldn't find it (looked till 50)

so, may be add a keyword list at the page properties, or top of the page ?

-kg



On 19 Nov 2002, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 00:15, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> >
> > A suggestion (for Sayamindu): since the font project is more likely to
be
> > linked from other sites like these, it might be a good idea (from our
> > perspective) to have a link from there to bengalinux.org, which might
> > eventually help increase its PageRank.
> >
>
> Ok, I will add a links section there in the site
> but this would require a little bit of work (since the entire thing is
> hard coded in plain html), and since I am a bit busy with my exams, i
> will probably be a little late :)
> -sdg-
>
> --
> Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/]
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