Sorry, this rather old email just went whooshing out when I woke a
machine that had gone to sleep before sending. I see that everyone is
already well-aware of the google ranking issues and have already taken
some steps to address this - sorry to revive the discussion days after
the fact!
On Oct 27, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:37 AM, James Berry wrote:
I've got to believe we have better incoming links to our site, so
if we better structured our site to do cross linking between
categories (and perhaps stoop to the subdomain tricks he does), we
could presumably improve this situation immensely.
I'm told by someone who does this for a living that it's all about
the anchor tags, and also making sure that all the individual ports
are promoted appropriately on their own page / sections. He
mentioned that there was a guide on google itself which described
how to best optimize one's site for the PageRank algorithm, but I'm
not able to find it just now. What I did find were a number of
other sites, from the rather mathematical (http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html
) to the more succinct: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/google.shtml
Either way, if darwinports.com is out-ranking macports.com on
individual port names then I can only suspect that they're following
more of the principles espoused at those sites than MacPorts is, and
that should be relatively easy to fix if anyone is really
motivated. :)
- Jordan
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