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Posted: 22 Oct 2004, 14:31
by markfiend
Another way to boost the google weighting is to paste the following code into your webpages:
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<a href="http://www.myheartland.co.uk/">The Sisters Of Mercy forum</a>
Posted: 22 Oct 2004, 14:57
by Dan
As far as I know google doesn't work like that. It calculates your ranking based on links to the site from other sites.
Posted: 22 Oct 2004, 15:21
by Quiff Boy
Dan wrote:
As far as I know google doesn't work like that. It calculates your ranking based on links to the site from other sites.
so why has it changed based on a few people following the links?
Posted: 22 Oct 2004, 16:55
by lazarus corporation
<geek>
Google uses a recursive algorithm to calculate page ranking and search results. Because it's a recursive algorithm, the order of search results do tend to shuffle around a little all the time, but usually within a small margin.
Clicking on a link from Google to Heartland would slightly help Heartland's position, although as Dan inidicated, a much greater weighting is placed on links from other sites, particularly links from sites with a high Google Page Rank, as the Page Rank is then partially conferred to the linked site.
Heartland's Page Rank is currently 4/10. Reasonably impressive, although (for the sake of any web-geek competition between myself and the esteemed QB) not as high as the Lazarus Corporation which sits at a slightly better 5/10 - something the Lazarus Corporation shares in common with the official Sisters site. Except mine gets updated on a regular basis. And isn't about the Sisters.
If anyone wishes to up the Page Rank (and therefore the position of Heartland in Google's rankings) they could infect their machine with an official Google toolbar for IE (a double infection!) and click the happy smiley button when visiting Heartland after following a link from Google. This certainly helped for the Lazarus Corporation...
Additionally, badger and cajole anyone with a website to link to Heartland. They'd probably want a link back, so it might be worth setting up a links page on Heartland.
My SEO consultancy invoice is in the post.
</geek>
Posted: 22 Oct 2004, 17:00
by Quiff Boy
"web-geek competition"
we all know you'd win hands down
Posted: 22 Oct 2004, 17:16
by hallucienate
I'll leave you guys to it, I'm gonna go back try to figure out how I can get PHP, PDF and MySQL to all work together the way I want them too
Posted: 22 Oct 2004, 17:27
by Quiff Boy
hallucienate wrote:I'll leave you guys to it, I'm gonna go back try to figure out how I can get PHP, PDF and MySQL to all work together the way I want them too
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/PDF-Generation-With-PHP
Posted: 22 Oct 2004, 17:34
by hallucienate
they use this:
http://www.pdflib.com/ and I've been using this:
www.fpdf.org so far I'm almost there, I think
