[Mediawiki-l] Bad ranking in Google (was Re: Google and wikis (was Re: logo only shows up on some pages))

[Elliott F. Cable]

We've done a *lot* to optimize google results for our sites, you can  
e-mail me if you would like some help...

On May 10, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Martin Jambon wrote:

> On Wed, 10 May 2006, jdd wrote:
>
>> Rick DeNatale wrote:
>>
>>> Searching using the site: prefix only looks at hits on that site,  
>>> and
>>> therefore shows how extensively the googlebot has crawled the site.
>>
>> isn't this the only thing google can do for you?
>
> The issue is about people finding what they are looking for, by using
> sensible keywords.
>
> Today, the Google rank for my search sunk back to page 5 (results  
> 41-50).
> Not in Yahoo yet but it might follow soon, we will see.
> Anyway, in the top 20 Google results my site is mentioned 5 times.  
> Maybe
> the reason why it has no impact on the ranking of the site itself  
> is that
> several of them are blogs or wikis using the rel=nofollow option in  
> links,
> but the outcome is irrelevant nonetheless.
>
>
>>> of interest. Getting a good google page rank ostensibly
>> means that
>>> other web sites with good page ranks are linking to the site.
>>
>> yes, but this has little to do with google and much with the
>> others sites :-), and the subject of the post is "google and
>> wikis"
>
> Right. Now it has changed.
>
> I apologize because my problem probably has nothing to do with  
> MediaWiki
> in particular.
>
>
> Martin
>
>
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