Google does not charge for search engine listings, as suggested below. You
can buy ads on google that use the keywords, but they do not effect the
rankings in the engine one bit. In google's creators are very strongly
opposed to such practices, I don't think you will ever have to pay for
listings in google.
I've done a lot of research about google, and the way google does sort its
search results is a combination of a PageRank, and the IR score.
PageRank is defined as a recurrence that is completely dependant on the
backwards links (links on other peoples sites, pointing to yours to your
page. The number of links on a page that links to you mitigates your
PageRank. A link to your page will have the best impact on your page rank
if, the page linking to you has a high page rank, and the total number of
links of that site is low. A site with a high PageRank and a large number
of outbound links can nullify its effect on your page rank. Since each
backward link’s PageRank/Total Links is summed, your PageRank cannot be
lowered by a link, and is always increased slightly by each backward link
your page has.
The IR score is based on keyword placement on your site font sizes, title
text, meta info, and text inside links, linking to your page.
If you focus on improving your page rank (finding site to link to you) you
will get more hits from google, and from the sites that link to you.
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Pete Freitag ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CFDEV.COM
ColdFusion Developer Resources
http://www.cfdev.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Declan Maher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 6:55 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Search Engines
Hi,
The whole issue of whether you have to pay for search engines or not is
very complex and much more detailed than simply do I have to pay or not.
You will not get listed on certain engines if you don't subscribe to
certain directories and are unlikely to get a good position unless you
pay for some, such as Google, .
The best sites I have found that tell you everything about searchengines
are:
http://searchengineforums.com - where you get help from fellow
developers/marketing people
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ - good updated info on all major
search engines
A critical directory appears to be Inktomi,which is where some
searchengines get their sites list from, from reading peoples input in
searchengine forums. You can register on this with:
http://www.positiontech.com/inktomi/faq.htm#1 (but go to the other
sites first and see what you think from peoples comments)
To sum up and use a generalisation, if you have a personal site you can
get on enough engines for free but it may take months, but if you have
money to spend then you can get a better ranking, much faster, and can
have your site automatically re-submitted regularly when you pay.
Declan Maher
Web Applications Developer
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 23 September 2001 17:01
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Search Engines
You don't have to pay. Do it yourself. I do. Just go to each of the
search engines, and register a site with them. .. Capture the form you
submit, and put that code into a CF template yourself.
I have made one where I put in the keywords, description, basic
information
enough to fill in all the forms in all the sites I want to submit to.
Then on the template page I have, I fill in my site name once, site
address
once, description once, name once, etc etc. and select a
classification
for each search engine, the drop down menus are taken off the site's own
form.
Then the submit button on the action page sends off the information
needed
by each site in turn, and puts a confirming page up. "submitted to
altavista... submitted to hotbot ... etc "
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP WebWorks
-----Original Message-----
From: Heidi Belal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 10:27 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Search Engines
Hi All,
this may be a bit off topic, but i need/advise on
where and how i can register a site in the top search
engines. I know there are all these sites where you
can do it but do you have recommendations?
My other question is, why do we have to pay for this,
or what does paying provide from those where you don't
have to pay do?
I thought there were robots that go around linking
from page to page and indexing the webpages..so that
when a search is run the pages relevant are found, so
what does paying do?
thanks!
Heidi
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