#1
Sep 18, 2009, 10:12 am
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Problem: this website is the #1 search result for "attnam"
But for "iter vehemens ad necem" it still hasn't shown up by page 4.
It seems like people are much more likely to search for the latter
Any suggestions for boosting the ranking?
#2
Sep 18, 2009, 10:16 am
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Use "Iter Vehemens Ad Necem" more?
EDIT: Now there is a link to here on page 3.
#3
Sep 19, 2009, 1:15 am
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Wow, chaostrom, you've got power!
#4
Sep 19, 2009, 9:16 am
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Ha, I spotted us on page 2 already!
#6
Sep 19, 2009, 9:50 am
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Holy shit. I actually didn't think it'd be this effective.
Guess this is why I'm the Grand Visor...
#7
Sep 19, 2009, 9:51 am
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hmm.. just searched again and I see a link to the wiki on page 3, but no link to the forum so far on page 10
Yahoo has us on page 2 though
#9
Sep 19, 2009, 11:40 am
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The link to the wiki is the ~34th result when searching through google.pl.
#10
Sep 19, 2009, 2:31 pm
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Frankly, I think it'd be more useful to make us show up higher for I V A N itself, rather than the Latin. How many people do you really think are going to remember how to spell the Latin?
Edit: I really was hoping that was shoutbox-only. :sigh:
#11
Sep 19, 2009, 8:47 pm
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I believe it's time for plan B.
The first page of results are all game review sites, we ought to go give 'em our link.
#12
Sep 20, 2009, 12:08 am
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Don't worry BDR I'm going to change it. It was sort of just a joke but I was also curious if it would have any effect.
btw, typing it not using all caps bypasses it as well.
The problem with using "Ivan" is that there are just so many different Ivans aside from the game. Of course, the official website does show up as result #2, but the rest of the results are all referring to people / companies. Maybe "Ivan rpg" or "Ivan roguelike" would be terms we should aim for
#13
Sep 20, 2009, 12:57 am
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#14
Sep 20, 2009, 5:46 am
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Maybe there are too many keywords in headers, which makes each of them less important? Just an idea, I don't know how exactly headers help search engines... But I think some of these keywords are not useful.
#15
Sep 20, 2009, 5:52 am
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You might consider converting the ancient I
VAN website into a huge signpost pointing viewers towards these forums. God knows who has the power to do that now.
Oh, and if the name of this website was
www.Itervehemensadnecem.com it would likely be the first result on a google search for "Iter Vehemens ad Necem".
#16
Sep 20, 2009, 6:06 am
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There should be a link from the wiki to the forum, or the main page. I also see that
www.attnam.com in general has a very low page rank, placing links to it in various places would help. Is it really impossible to get Hexii or Holybanana to add just this small link on the official website? I have no idea for other places.
EDIT: OK, there is a link from the wiki to the forum, but it is hard to see.
#17
Sep 20, 2009, 11:55 pm
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I added a more prominent link to the wiki.
It would definitely be really helpful if we had the link added to sourceforge.
Our page rank is 1/10. Isn't that a measure of how popular the website is across the entire internet? For something devoted to just one RPG, I don't know if we can expect any better than that.
#18
Sep 21, 2009, 6:25 am
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http://www.adom.de/ is also devoted to one roguelike RPG and has pagerank of 5. Of course we are less popular than ADOM, but I suspect our pagerank should be something like 3.
Pagerank is somehow related to the structure of the links in Internet, meaning that if good sites link to us, we are also good. A sourceforge link would be definitely helpful.
#19
Sep 21, 2009, 7:30 am
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Pagerank depends on two things: how many links link to us, and the pagerank of those that link to us. Saying IVAN a lot won't help that much, exchanging links with other sites will.
#20
Sep 21, 2009, 12:05 pm
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