Was he a hero?

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Was he a hero?

Bravo Bell!

Thanks.

BTW, You need to delete some things from your messages storage (maybe empty your "sent items"): your in-box is full.

[Siggie]

Re: Was he a hero?

Yep, to a designer of websites a "link" means something specific - the link is a piece of code that will lead you to something else. Website addresses (urls) are not actually links in that precise way (though the wider public might think of them as links). I'm assuming that when Google uses "links" to increase a website's search engine position it means a coded, clickable, link in a webpage (in its help pages google only talks about "links", not "urls").

Yeah, I didn't mean link... I guess I should have said url. I will consult someone who knows a bit more about how search engines do this.

[Sip]

Re: Was he a hero?

I'm assuming that when Google uses "links" to increase a website's search engine position it means a coded, clickable, link in a webpage (in its help pages google only talks about "links", not "urls").

That's right.

Modern search engines use a large number of signals from web pages like occurance of words and phrases (and maybe even urls that are there as text), how close the phrases are together, and a thousand other things to figure out how things relate to each other but traditionally the "link" has been the thing you click on to get from page to page (that's what Google's PageRank algorithm is based on) ... not to be confused with PigeonRank

[Siggie]

Re: Was he a hero?

not to be confused with PigeonRank

Building on Skinner. Oh, google, you're so funny. <3

I wonder if they need a research monkey...

That's right.

Modern search engines use a large number of signals from web pages like occurance of words and phrases (and maybe even urls that are there as text), how close the phrases are together, and a thousand other things to figure out how things relate to each other but traditionally the "link" has been the thing you click on to get from page to page (that's what Google's PageRank algorithm is based on) ... not to be confused with PigeonRank

So it doesn't include non-hyperlinked urls (you said both)? Is there a code you can put to tell it not to include it, but still have it be hyperlinked?

[Sip]

Re: Was he a hero?

So it doesn't include non-hyperlinked urls (you said both)? Is there a code you can put to tell it not to include it, but still have it be hyperlinked?

The classic "PageRank" algorithm that basically started Google only looks at hyperlinks as far as I know (your basic html link that you click on to get to another page). A site's rank is calculated based on the rank of other sites that link to it (so the links matter but also the rank of the site making the link matter). It's all this giant interdependent hosh-posh of links and how everybody's rank depends on everybody else's rank. The beauty of the PageRank algorithm is how it solved for the ranks very quickly (considering there are billions of pages on the web and who knows how many links)

But this was from like 10 years ago. You can imagine now search engines have become much smarter than looking at just page rank. So what I was saying is that having words, urls, and texts and how they are placed on a web can also matter.

I don't know if there is some way you can write a page in such a way to tell search engine crawlers to look at some parts or not. Also you have no guarantee they'll take your suggestion But there is this whole robots.txt standard that you can put on your site: http://www.robotstxt.org/ ... that tells the well intentioned crawlers what they may and may not look at.