What Determines Google Search Results

Google uses a different technique than most engines.
Forget meta tags!

Google looks at the number of other pages that link to a page.
worth saying again:
Google looks at the number of other pages that link to a page.


This makes it harder to "cheat" on search results, as you don't have control of those other sites.

Let me explain it specifically:

I own a site: PCKevin.com

I want it to be first page that comes up in a google search for "pckevin"

Another guy has page with "pckevin" as well.

Google looks at the number of pages on the web that have a link to my page and other guys page. The more people that put a link to MY page, the higher the google result. If everyone here puts a link to my site on their site, then google will bring my site to the top.

It is hard to cheat;
to get my page first on google because I have no control over other pages on the web...and the links people put on these pages. Ah, but here is a cheat: here on VDr I could have a link to my page (in my sig) , and google sees this link on VDr page and gives my pckevin page a higher rating.

Suppose you want to find a good page on some subject...let's say "volcanoes".

if there is a good, worthwhile page on the subject of volcanoes on the web, you can imagine many people will put a link to that good page on their own page. "Here is a good page on volcanoes" may be seen on several pages. A crappy web page may not get this exposure. A Google search of "volcanoes" involves counting the number of links to a specific volcanoe page so the top results in google are generally the top pages in popularity. The crappy page can put all the meta tags they want on the crappy page, but if nobody links to the crappy page, google will not put it near the top of the results.


Hope I make this clear...



Kevin

Here is something fun...

go to google and search for "godmonstr"

check out the first result.

now how did that happen!!!

Hey....I just noticed something funny....

We have all fallen into the Google trap here......talking as if Google is the only search engine on the net. This would, no doubt, be music to ears of Google execs....but is a disservice. True, I use Google for about 90% of my searches (and I do alot) but you would be surprised what little gems that other smaller engines turn up.

Now I am not a fan of watching paint dry....but I do occasionally watch the spiders that visit my site. Googlebots visit pretty regular, but I have found that Inktomi bots are much more agressive and travel in packs up to ten or more. I haven't checked in awhile, but last I heard....Inktomi mines data for several engines and is a bigger bang for the buck in a sense.

About 6 months ago, I had a really aggressive bot hang around for days. Clicking threads and links all over the place. I did some checking and found out it belonged to MS and was deep indexing for their search engine. Sure enough.....shortly thereafter I got a major boost in an MSN search.

So we should all have links to www.virtualdr.com in our signatures then.

Or maybe just type it in the middle of a reponse www.virtualdr.com like this ?

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So we should all have links to www.virtualdr.com in our signatures then.

Or maybe just type it in the middle of a reponse www.virtualdr.com like this ?

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Pointless (at the moment) for this reason:

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Ahhh, but look, another referral to help CTH's rating in Google. Easy eh? Except it won't because this page isn't going to be indexed by Google spiders anytime soon. But the page at CTH was, so that's 3 referrals that Google DID index and helped V Dr's Google rank (a lot of good that did us though).

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The reason V Dr even rates a mention on some Google results is more the Internet.com network of sites - some of the plain pages (that Google does index) have links to VirtualDr (and HardwareCentral, and SharkyExtreme etc etc).
The reason TSG rates so highly is a) their forums are indexed and b) their domain name "spiderweb" catches the Search Engine Spiders.