Comments on: Search Engine Optimisation - Step 2. Benchmarking

By: Tom Melon

Tom Melon — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:44:28 +0000

The method is old, it’s one of the basic methods, but it works fine.

Thanks for the article anyways.

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By: mara

mara — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:27:49 +0000

Strange to see how much SEO has changed since 2005. Today its mostly about links and content.

By: Tomek

Tomek — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:14:07 +0000

Garry Your right it’s from 2005. Better search for something new on this blog.

By: Garry

Garry — Wed, 09 May 2007 07:09:05 +0000

Roger, the article is very old.

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By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:11:34 +0000

The page rank algorithm is relatively simple yet brilliant and is available for all to see:
Page Rank paper by Larry Paige and Sergey Brin completed while at Stanford University. Obviously there’s a lot more to Google than the Page Rank algorithm.

By: Ruslan Abuzant

Ruslan Abuzant — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:05:22 +0000

Good tutorial,

FYI, google is now working on a new ranking algorythm/program called the IndyRank, it uses a combination of borg technologies and spacscoring to rank the websites.

Good luck, Ruslan

By: Jonathan Fors

Jonathan Fors — Wed, 31 May 2006 20:35:46 +0000

Thanks for the answer.

Pagerank is surely a secret algorithm, but common sense tells me that the modem is the culprit here. I will invest some money in getting a new one.

Sincerely,
Jonathan Fors
http://etnoy.broach.se

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Wed, 31 May 2006 13:07:39 +0000

Almost certainly Jonathan,

it isn’t possible to say for definite as the Google algorithm is a closely guarded secret but it would stand to reason that a site’s availability would be one of the factors they would use to rank a site.

By: Jonathan Fors

Jonathan Fors — Wed, 31 May 2006 12:57:48 +0000

How much does webserver availability matter in SEO? I have my homepage on a server that has a DSL modem that sometimes fails for a few hours, and I feel I have difficulties being found on Google. Could this be the issue?

By: Apollo

Apollo — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:48:39 +0000

Tom,

Iâ€™m new to the whole area of SEO, so forgive me if my question sounds stupid!

Reading your articles on SEO, you mentioned Google Rankings. On Googleâ€™s FAQ page I noticed the following:

â€œAutomated rank checking programs violate Google’s Terms of Service. They use server resources that should be spent on answering user requests. We strongly request that you not use rank checking programs to check your position on Googleâ€?

Is this a reference to services such as Google Rankings, or am I missing the point?