[Orcnet] [Orcnet-members] Orcnet and Google pagerank

[Steve Wetterling]

Pat, Keith & ORCNET members, follow on comment from Steve Wetterling:

This Google page rank feature would work if the AICN website was "Google
Readable" which it is not.

This is something that AICN did not include in their original website data
base design spec.  They have intended to fix this "recognized to be serious"
shortcoming in "the next year" for a couple years now.  So maybe this year.

I think that this important comment should be included in the feedback to
the AICN guy. 

If something isn't Google Readable, it hardly exists in the accessible
world.

s.w.

-----Original Message-----
From: orcnet-members-bounces at eeconsult.org
[mailto:orcnet-members-bounces at eeconsult.org] On Behalf Of Keith Lofstrom
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:47 AM
To: Tim Wescott
Cc: 'ORCNET MEMBERS LIST'
Subject: [Orcnet-members] Orcnet and Google pagerank

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:29:23AM -0700, Tim Wescott wrote:
> I have gotten at least one client through the list.
> 
> My belief is that things like the consultant's list may not bring you 
> clients, but if someone does a web search on my name to see if I'm for 
> real then it'll pop up on the consultant's list (mine, and the Tim 
> Wescott who teaches body building -- but it's easy to tell whose 
> references are whose, particularly if you've seen me in short sleeves).
> 
> My case may be different -- my marketing is more through published 
> articles, talks, and USENET advise, so my client base is all over the 
> US.  If you're marketing through word-of-mouth then the folks who know 
> you will generally vouch for you (or deride you) independently of 
> whatever is out there in cyberspace.

There is also another mechanism at work - Google calls it Page Rank.
Google determines which pages are indexed first in their listings by
how many connections point to and from a page from different websites.
More connections, the higher the listing.  Pages with higher pagerank
bring higher pagerank to linked pages, too.  

eeconsult.org  seems to have high page rank - it always lists first.
That means all our webpages have higher page rank, too;  we tend to
come out high in Google listings.   Although I don't use other search
engines much, I imagine the same is true for Yahoo and MSN.

So a client can google for your skills, and you will come up first in
the list, even if they never check the orcnet site directly.  This is
the main effect I am trying to capture by getting everyone on there,
with their web pages listed.

We can drive the page rank higher, and have our individual websites
rank higher, if we:

 (1) ALL link to the orcnet website from our own websites
 (2) Add content to the wiki - writeups, presentations, etc. that
     other individuals elsewhere want to point links at.

I have been lax on (2) myself, but I hope to add a presentation or
two, real soon now.  Note, a better designed main page, with relevant
search terms in the text or bullet lists, will also appear higher
for the particular search term.  So design your own website so your
clients can find you by what you do.


Keith

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