Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Approach to Google-optimizing

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Posted by Jade Rubick on
Joel, here's a couple of other suggestions:

- there is a really great application for Mac OS X called Advanced Web Ranking. It allows you to monitor your search results by keyword on hundreds of search engines, month by month or week by week, and it displays graphs and reports -- very effective for showing your client what you're trying to do.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/advancedwebranking.html

- there was a great thread on openacs.org that discussed how to score better on Google, it refered to this great link:

http://wolfram.org/writing/howto/3.html

One of the most important things, it seems, is to have a lot of meaningful links, and to make the site useful to other people, so that other people will link to it.

After that, directory naming seems very important. I notice that my rubick.com pages are found iff I name the directories something meaningful.

So http://rubick.com:8002/openacs/ad_form

would be much better than

http://rubick.com:8002/openacs/notes_on_ad_form

because people would most likely search for openacs ad_form