According to Aviram Carmi: > Correct, I did find a solution. might not be the "correct" solution, > but it works... > > I disabled the backlink_factor and set it to zero. > > for whatever reason, it was giving much higher ranking to pages that > I did not want to show up as high as they did, and cause pages I > wanted to show up at the top, to be way down (unless I used keyword > factor of a 1000 or more, and still the pages showed up below tenth > position) > > Once I disabled backlink_factor, I now seem to have much better > control over page ranking and placement using the other factors > (keywords,meta,heading,title,etc.), and of course putting appropriate > Meta tags, Title, heading, etc., in the documents themselves...
You know, now that you mention it, it seems others have had similar problems, which may very well have been caused by backlink_factor too. E.g. when htsearch seems to score PDF files higher than HTML files, it may be because the handling of backlink_factor is such that the number of links going out of a document work against the score, while the number of links pointing to the document increase the score. PDFs tend not to have links (and if they do, most external converters ignore them), so their low outgoing link count would bump up their score. I don't think that's the way it ought to be. I know the reason for it was to downgrade the score of "link farms", but it seems to be downgrading more than just those. For whatever reason, this effect seems to be worse in 3.2 than in 3.1. Could it be because the logarithmic scoring amplifies this effect? -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
