Comments on: This is just wrong… http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/11/04/this-is-just-wrong/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:45:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: krdr http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/11/04/this-is-just-wrong/#comment-91806 krdr Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:46:49 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1764#comment-91806 But, what if webtuesday have some relevance. Google find group of "just" 67 000 000 pages with some date, then pages with date in header, heading and title put closer to top, then take site relevance etc, etc,... This is not wrong. Therećs algorithm, and therećs results that follows rules of algorithm. If this is not what we naturally do, then we have oprtunity to get deeper look in googles algorithm. Any violation of common sense can give us information how the system work But, what if webtuesday have some relevance. Google find group of “just” 67 000 000 pages with some date, then pages with date in header, heading and title put closer to top, then take site relevance etc, etc,… This is not wrong. Therećs algorithm, and therećs results that follows rules of algorithm. If this is not what we naturally do, then we have oprtunity to get deeper look in googles algorithm. Any violation of common sense can give us information how the system work

]]> By: HarryF http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/11/04/this-is-just-wrong/#comment-83701 HarryF Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:46:48 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1764#comment-83701 <blockquote> </blockquote><blockquote> I’m not logged out from Google so I assume these aren’t somehow weighted by my search history </blockquote> Huh? Sorry - double negative. What I meant to say was, through having a gmail account, www.google.com shows me logged in, and from second hand sources like this http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/003477.html, when I <em>am</em> logged in, Google <em>may</em> be personalizing the results I get. I hope they're not also doing something IP based. <blockquote> Perhaps it is “just wrong”, but I think it’s being indexed properly. </blockquote> Fair enough I guess.

I’m not logged out from Google so I assume these aren’t somehow weighted by my search history

Huh?

Sorry - double negative.

What I meant to say was, through having a gmail account, http://www.google.com shows me logged in, and from second hand sources like this http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/003477.html, when I am logged in, Google may be personalizing the results I get. I hope they’re not also doing something IP based.

Perhaps it is “just wrong”, but I think it’s being indexed properly.

Fair enough I guess.

]]> By: malikyte http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/11/04/this-is-just-wrong/#comment-83356 malikyte Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:31:20 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1764#comment-83356 If nothing else, I love the links you incorporate in your blog entries, Harry. gscloud.pl looks interesting, but even more interesting (imo) is visitors, and linked from that site, PHP Interactive (which I will be letting friends who are learning PHP know about, first thing; my boss might like this too, he's learning). As far as this is concerned, I would imagine that the biggest problem is the lack of SEO using dates, but then again, how many sites could actually specifically use (only) dates as a relevant and meaningful keyword? History-based websites, perhaps, but are there that many? I think many of your results showed them. Because Webtuesday's site is using a wiki, and that wiki is automatically creating a page title of the entry, and the entry is the date...not only do you have it in the title (weighted highly) but also in the content as a header (bingo). There's also the meta keyword of "date" being used, possibly enforcing it more, and then, as you mentioned, constantly being linked to from Sitepoint. Makes sense to me. Perhaps it is "just wrong", but I think it's being indexed properly. If nothing else, I love the links you incorporate in your blog entries, Harry. gscloud.pl looks interesting, but even more interesting (imo) is visitors, and linked from that site, PHP Interactive (which I will be letting friends who are learning PHP know about, first thing; my boss might like this too, he’s learning).

As far as this is concerned, I would imagine that the biggest problem is the lack of SEO using dates, but then again, how many sites could actually specifically use (only) dates as a relevant and meaningful keyword? History-based websites, perhaps, but are there that many? I think many of your results showed them. Because Webtuesday’s site is using a wiki, and that wiki is automatically creating a page title of the entry, and the entry is the date…not only do you have it in the title (weighted highly) but also in the content as a header (bingo). There’s also the meta keyword of “date” being used, possibly enforcing it more, and then, as you mentioned, constantly being linked to from Sitepoint. Makes sense to me. Perhaps it is “just wrong”, but I think it’s being indexed properly.

]]> By: Kevin Yank http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/11/04/this-is-just-wrong/#comment-82369 Kevin Yank Sun, 05 Nov 2006 23:16:56 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1764#comment-82369 <blockquote>I’m not logged out from Google so I assume these aren’t somehow weighted by my search history</blockquote> Huh?

I’m not logged out from Google so I assume these aren’t somehow weighted by my search history

Huh?

]]> By: 2MHost.com http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/11/04/this-is-just-wrong/#comment-81438 2MHost.com Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:13:17 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1764#comment-81438 I think your guess about "Google takes Sitepoint too seriously" is correct, I know that google give extra respect to some websites in some "ranges" of words. some times I target a keyword for web hosting and got bunch of good results in similar key words .. similar here is really wide thing, like I target "affordable" and got results in "low cost". I think its similar in how adwords suggest keywords. I think your guess about “Google takes Sitepoint too seriously” is correct, I know that google give extra respect to some websites in some “ranges” of words.

some times I target a keyword for web hosting and got bunch of good results in similar key words .. similar here is really wide thing, like I target “affordable” and got results in “low cost”. I think its similar in how adwords suggest keywords.

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