Archive for the 'General' Category

Google and Inbound Links

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

The effect of inbound links
It’s common knowledge that Google evaluates many factors when working out which page to rank where in response to a search query. They claim to incorporate around 100 different ranking factors. And it’s common knowledge that the most powerful of these ranking factors is link text. Link text is the text […]

Google’s PageRank Explained and how to make the most of it

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

What is PageRank?
PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the […]

List of web sites with high PageRank

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Okay so here’s the deal: not too long ago, Wikipedia had a page listing known websites with a PageRank of 10, and a large number of sites with PageRank 9. However it was decided that the page contradicted Wikipedia’s article policy and so was deleted. (Personally I found it a great resource, but their rules […]

Copyright Versus Free Software

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Free Software is often portrayed as anti-copyright. David Chisnall examines the close relationship between the two ideas and argues that Free Software is actually closer to the original spirit of copyright laws than proprietary software license agreements.
A lot of people have been talking recently about the relationship between Free Software and copyright. On one extreme […]

Search Engine Optimization Tips

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Search Engine Optimization is said to be art! If not that artistic, still SEO needs very good knowledge, imagination and practice. To get into top ten list of search engine results one needs to work on various factors of page and content. Just having good and original content is NOT enough in today’s fierce competitive […]