RE: FN-FORUM Search Engine Problem....

date posted 10th January 2003 12:02

I didn't find your url on Google, but the fact you have a page rank means
your page is listed in Google. Page Rank can be found out by installing the
Google toolbar: http://toolbar.google.com/

Backward links are Google's name for sites that link to your pages, your
message board has none, but www.sportnetwork.net has about 40, and a page
rank of 5/10. Backward links show how popular your site is and popular sites
rank higher in Google because if the site is popular it must be doing
something right!

"PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its
vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In
essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page
A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or
links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes
cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to
make other pages "important."

Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google
remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean
nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank
with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both
important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of
times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's
content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a
good match for your query. " - from google.com/technology



Mike
http://www.denialdesign.com


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
[EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of John Wards
Sent: 10 January 2003 11:33
To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Michael Beckett
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Search Engine Problem....


On Friday 10 Jan 2003 11:07 am, Michael Beckett wrote:
> You are listed in Google, your message board has a page rank of 2/10,
which
> means Google has your message board in it's database, it has no backward
> links though which means it's not going to be very highly ranked.

Mike,

How did you find that url on google? I can't seem to find any message board
links? Also how did you find out our page rank? and what are backward links?

Cheers
John Wards

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