[Cialug] Google Rankings

[Chris Hilton]

Google also says they won't honor, but will punish, sites that repeat
words.  For example:
linux, linux, linux, linux, linux, linux, linux, linux, bsd, linux, tux,
Linus Torvalds, Torvalds, Linus, Linux, amazing, amazing, balloon,
linux, linux, bsd.
I think the only one left that rewards that is Lycos.  I know that
usually my blog will hit in the top few on a search result if I have a
big article about a subject up.  But usually it has to be about a
subject that not too many sites covered in depth.
In my experience though, I've found google to be really fair.  And
unlike msn, it's bot doesn't make up 30% of the visits to my site.

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> I'm finishing up a re-work of my website.  I'd like it to show higher in
> the google page rankings.
> 
> My understanding is that a site with a higher number of links to other
> sites will get a higher ranking.  I also saw some pages that had a
> <META> tag embedded with a bunch of key words. Will making improvements
> in these areas help?
> 
> Any other ideas, other than paying google?
> 
> :) Dave