Archive for the ‘Pharse Rank’ Category

Search engine optimization-Tech and formatting tips

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

First, make sure your site, especially your homepage, is frequently updated. Google seems to like frequently changing websites, this might be why weblogs tend to score very well at Google.

Second, make sure to have a lot of incoming and outgoing links (especially to and from big, relevant, high-quality websites). If something can be a link, make it a link! By doing so, Google will rank you pages higher as others who are not that embedded. This link relevancy system is called Google Pagerank. You can check out your pagerank at pagerank.net. Pagerank works on a scale from 1 to 10. If you have a rank of 1 or 2, you’re likely to be way down the search results. If you have a higher rank, your site will appear at the top of the search results, even if there are a lot of competitors for your specific keywords or business.

Third, make sure your site is clean and correctly formatted, preferably in web standards / xhtml. Avoid certain technologies the Google robot doesn’t understand. Don’t use a frameset for your website. Robots may skip frames or only index the upper one (refering will be a mess anyway). Avoid javascript or Flash menus, only a.href links are followed by a robot. Additionally, all javascript and comments are skipped by search robots.

For the same reason, full-flash websites should be avoided if search accessibility is important (actually, if ANY accessibility is important). If you do feel the strong need to use Flash, all you can do is to make sure you have a keyword descriptive URL and page title.

Google’s New Algorithm to Rank Pages and Detect Spam: “PhraseRank”?

Monday, June 16th, 2008

PhraseRank

From the very beginning, Google’s distinctive feature was the hyperlink induced popularity ranking. Algorithms using text content to evaluate relevancy of web documents played much lesser role. The reasons to this disparity are purely pragmatical: authors of web documents have total control over their content and are at liberty to modify it to deceive ranking algorithms and get higher positions in search results. Hyperlinks however are much less influenced by webmasters and provide a more reliable measure of authority (link weight) and relevance (link anchor).