DomAin name/Google ranking

[redhippo]

read something about google ranking somewhere.
need clarification again;

1. does the search check the domain name and compare to contents of web?
2. how does one get the Page Ranking
3. what does the digit =?
4. how should the meta tags relate to the "domain"?
5. how should the "header/title" relate to the domain name?
6. will submission via professional "traffikers" help
7. are commercial software for submissions useful? if so can some one share personaL USage



hope my random thots make some sense to someone:hehe:


thanks, all pointers welcome




:bingo:

 

[EdwinJ]

You can read more about Google's pagerank technology
here .

Ian Rogers of IPR Computing wrote a white paper explaining how it works. If you're not afraid of algorithms & formulae like PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))
you can learn more here

 

[redhippo]

Originally posted by EdwinJ
You can read more about Google's pagerank technology
here .

Ian Rogers of IPR Computing wrote a white paper explaining how it works. If you're not afraid of algorithms & formulae like PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))
you can learn more here

iam not afraid, not afraidno, not afraid ok, not afraid

 

[fifihopkin]

Interesting paper here by Google's founders while they were at Stanford. Gives some insight into what google is looking for.
http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/fullpapers/1921/com1921.htm

Basically google is designed, maintained and updated so it can not be fooled and it provides the best search engine in the world. It is looking for the best page on what you are searching for.
So the question should be what are the search words your future webpage readers are using. These are your keywords. Your webpages should be based on these words.
At the end of the day content is king. If you have no content, trying to trick google will not work. You need the content first, then SEO the site. That's when you can use a professional.
Google looks at heaps of things...meta tags are not really one of them. Other search engines do though so it is not totally wasted. Google likes, descriptions, all the headings, fonts, text, density of keywords in text, alt tags on graphics and pictures. The first 100-200 words of text seem to be important. Do not use hidden text that is the equivilent to spaming to google. Try to spread your keywords around the site not all on one page. Maybe 3 to 6 per page.

Pagerank - is a ranking system for webpages. Think of it as webpages all voting for each other to see who is the best 10/10. It does not penaltise you for your incoming links but it can for your outgoing links (doesn't like link banks). What most people miss is that half of your pagerank comes from your internal pages - see content is king. If you have more links going out to a page than coming back then you are giving PR away. All your pages should link back to your home page or your most important page. So the architecture of the site is important. Think it of funnelling PR around your site.

It not hard to customise your site yourself. There is lots of help on the internet. i can post some more links if you want in a couple of days. (there at my office not on the mobile)

For PR/google domain name relevance. Google has always crawlled with DNS info in hand. So it knows if all your domains are on one server and linking to each other. There are rumours google has been recently optimised to look for domains catching traffic. Maybe a recent change in ownership will trigger a no vote and hurt PR and search results.

All cat and mouse stuff.

There's a good site - I think it is googleguy.com - he seems to have a lot of experience and tips and hints.

 

[cerebus]

Let's try to accept that we don't know the real PR used by google. But simply have two forms of PR to look at, the directory and toolbar PR. Whilst the toolbar PR is what is most often referred to, and most often trusted, we can see early indications and perhaps clarification of this in the directory PR.

True is that linking back to your home page is good, but this is a good thing even if you take google out of the equation. Also, you would want to link together relevant content pages in a way that is logical to the user (see newspapers related articles).

You are not punished by outgoing links but as the total number of links on a page gets higher, the value of each link is decreased in the sense of PR it gives to the target.

AFAIK there have been no true indications of the domain traffic catching punishment you are talking about. Such cases can have other explanations not directly related to the traffic catching;
- Google tends to cache DNS for a bit longer than normal ISPs and thereby get 404's or no pages from the old host
- The page it gets (PPC thingies) is a direct copy of another site already spidered and can thereby be punished or removed

For google guy comment: http://www.markcarey.com/googleguy-says/

The obvious reasons that he 'have a lot of experience and tips and hints' is that he's a google employee.

Submission software or professional help to submit to google is IMO useless. Google will even find your site on it itself, if it's being linked from somewhere a human ever go. Contracting people for SEO can on the other hand be a useful thing.

 

[Elefekt]

Originally posted by EdwinJ
You can read more about Google's pagerank technology
here .

Ian Rogers of IPR Computing wrote a white paper explaining how it works. If you're not afraid of algorithms & formulae like PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))
you can learn more here

Yup. Its about the links.