Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
I might post the vote results a little late. I have to go to a customer’s and set up their DSL router and the VPN so I can work on their system. Supposedly the line is to be installed today. IF Bell South does their thing and all goes well then I will have access from their offices and can test by accessing b.org. If the phone company lets me down, or I have no skilz, then it will be 1-2ish PDT before I post results.
Why does work have to get in the way of Buffista time?
Gah!
The good news is that there no summary or anything, just this:
www.buffistas.org/showthread.php?thread_id=71&post_id=9310
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And it is the last link on the page. If I was searching, (and I didn't know us from Adam) I wouldn't be inclined to click on it.
If a bunch of us go click on the other links that google brings up, can we send the Buffista link even further down? ijs
can we send the Buffista link even further down?
That's not how google works.
I think it helps more if you link to other things...
How, Sue?
I think that the google ranking has to do partly with how many places link to you, as well as the tendency for people to click on the link. But my understanding is pretty basic.
I know that when people googlebomb, they want people to link to their sites, because that's how they get a higher result on Google.
By having a web page that google hits that links to other sites with the same search terms.
I really doubt it's worth the effort -- googlebombing takes a lot of effort.
It must. Understanding it all is taking more energy than I have this morning.
From the google site:
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.
I don't see how the number of hits can factor in, since this is information that Google wouldn't have.
Altering a PageRank. GoogleBombing, takes a whole lot of pages that Google lends credence to. Not easy. There's an effort underway to GoogleBomb the current #1 hit for jew, and although it seems lots of people are participating, nothing yet.