What kind of link from Warwick University did you have in mind? I can imagine being able to get a link from departmental pages but not from university pages. But also, the department has very long-standing and valuable links with the Magma group and John Cannon in particular (he visits there for a few months every year), so any mention of Sage there would be accompanied by links to -- at least -- Magma
John Cremona (Mathematics Professor at U of Warwick, for those who don't know me) 2008/7/19 Dr. David Kirkby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 18 Jul, 20:33, "Harald Schilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello Sage folks, as promised in my last website posting [1], here a >> bit more how things evolved. > > I think the homepage could be more search engine friendly, which > should help the rank on google. There are a lot of keywords, but I'm > not convinced they are in the right order: > > This is what the keywords currently are: > > sage, sagemath, sage math, open source, floss, free, software, > software package, mathematic, mathematics, math, maths, cas, computer > algebra system, python, cryptography, numerical computation, algebra, > group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, calculus, symbolics, number > theory, mathematical programming, scientific computing, mathematical > education, free software, interactive maths, alternative, groups, > finite field, linear algebra over finite fields, free advanced algebra > program, advanced mathematical software, gf(2), opensource math, > mathematics software free, math notebook, free math software, William > Stein > > 1) Now I think there are too many there, which probably does not help > the page rank. I'm not an expert on this, but I think that an > excessive number does more harm than good. > 2) I believe the order affects the rank too. I find it hard to believe > that they are optimal. > 3) One of them is "mathematic". Is that supposed to be Mathematica? > > Here are a few suggestions. > > free mathematica, free maple, free mathematics software, download > mathematics, sage, open source mathematics, free computer algebra > system, mathematics software, mathematical software, symbolic > computation, mathematica clone, maple clone, arbitrary precision > arithmetic, plot graph, > > 4) If I type 'free mathematica' into google, the number one hit is > this question on a forum: > > http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=189 > > Sage is not even mentioned as one of the free versions - all the > others I can think of are. It would be worth someone registering and > saying a bit about sage. Google seems far the most popular engine, so > I would worry about that more than any of the others. > > 5) Typing 'free maths software' brings up > http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Software/ > as #4. (dmoz is a list of open source software). I've been told before > that it is quite important to get in the dmoz directory, but I don't > see Sage listed there. > > 6) I believe links to sites from sourceforge are quite helpful. It > might be worth finding some relevant software on there, and asking if > they will link to sage. I'll stick a link from http://witm.sourceforge.net/ > for you. > > 7) You could try asking on one of the web developer sites for > suggestions how to improve ranking. uk.net.web.authoring is a > newsgroup, which has a slight uk bias, but 95% of the questions on > there are just as applicable to any other country. I've found them > pretty helpful in the past for suggestions how to improve a site. > > 8) Typing 'mathematics university' into google I get 95 million hits. > Google insists on sending me to google.co.uk, so I get mainly uk > universites. The top ones are Warwick, Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, > University College London. I would bet all of them have "links" pages. > Why not ask them to link to sage? > > 9) Since Microsoft Research are funding sage, how about trying to get > Sage listed on the M$ web site? I don't even see it mentioned on the > page dealing with US university research. I would suspect if Google > finds microsoft linking to a site, it would push it up the page rank a > lot. > > 10) Ask regular users of Sage to link to the site. > > 11) I think the plan should be to get well respected sites - major > universities, Microsoft (as much as I hate to say it), > > 12) Once a Solaris port is done, try to get Blastwave and Sunfreeware > to keep packages. I'm not sure if Blastware will, as I think they want > Solaris 8 packages. But I guess if it does not run on Solaris 8, they > might accept it. You might get some problems getting Sunfreewave to > have a package, as the owner of that site (Steve Christensen) works > for Wolfram Research, produces his own Mathematica addon and moderates > comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica. I suspect, given he does not allow > other software to be discussed on comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica, he > might be reluctant to produce a package for Sage. But you can only > ask. > > Sticking 'solaris software' into google I find www.sunfrerware.com is > the top hit - more than www.sun.com !! At number 4 is > http://www.solaris4you.dk/sunsolaris.html which is a list of free > solaris software. > > Anyway, perhaps there are some ideas for ways to improve the number of > visitors to the site. > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
