seo on S Anand

Where you host determines your page rank on Google

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Google’s dirty little secret talks about how Google determines whether your site appears on top for a search depending on whether you and the searcher are in the same geography or not. So if your server is in Kazakhstan, expect fewer hits.

Improving pagerank

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Good guidelines on improving pagerank. via LazyGeek

Blind Search Engine Test

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:00:00 +0000

The Blind Search Engine Test. My vote turned out to be for Google.

Google Sitemaps

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Google Sitemaps.

…is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly.

Anil Dash links to alternate proposals. via Anders Jacobs

nofollow tag

Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:00:00 +0000

On the impact of ‘rel=nofollow’ tag.

Or, perhaps, some prominent webloggers will use “nofollow” as a money-making technique: for a fee, they’ll take the “nofollow” off your link and let you have their PageRank.

Google not the top search engine

Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:00:00 +0000

Google doesn’t think it’s the top [search engine](http://www.google.com/search?q=search engine) any more. via Anders Jacobsen

About PageRank

Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:00:00 +0000

About PageRank

Google search algorithm change

Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Reactions to Google’s revised search algorithm. People’s rankings on certain keywords appear to have changed. Mine hasn’t. So far.

Tradeoff between reciprocal links and quality

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Joshua, in an insightful article, talks of the tradeoff between reciprocal links and quality.

GoogleDance dates

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:00:00 +0000

I know – I’ve been talking too much about Google. Still, here’re the dates on which Google updates itself.

David Gallagher googlebomb

Thu, 04 Jul 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Yet another “googlebomb” on the name David Gallagher.

Google my name

Mon, 06 May 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Never thought the day would come when the Google query S Anand would throw up my name first. Probably won’t last…

Improving your page rank

Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:00:00 +0000

A non-Google-bomb way of improving your page rank.

Google and blogs

Fri, 08 Mar 2002 12:00:00 +0000

The strong linkage between Google and blogs can lead to subversions like Googlebombing (more). The Church of Scientology is already using it.

Speaking of which, my weblog archive got a fair number of hits from the Google search for imdbpro password. I wondered why. Turns out that my archive joins IMDBPro and Metafilter as the only page that mentions the words IMDBPro and password!