Re: [WSG] Google Accessible Search Released

2006-07-22 Thread Tim 
How do I rate in Google now that accessibility is a variable, I have  
about 60 pages ranked four, 30 ranked three.
I watched other sites acquire links by scheming and dealing while I did  
everything the google way. I will check my search engine rankings.


I just checked 100 pages (Validated XHTML and AAA accessible) they were  
ranked three or four by Google, now the fours are the same but almost  
all threes are now zero!  Can you check you page rank with the  
accessible search engine as you can with ordinary google search?


I tested page ranking years ago, around 100 outgoing links decreased a  
google page rank, incoming links are fine from many pages.


Tim
http://www.hereticpress.com

On 23/07/2006, at 2:48 PM, Chris Dimmock wrote:


[quote]General google page ranking is based on incoming links .
Link farms exploit the algorithm, so google downgrade sites with over
100 links.[/quote]

You need to read
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py? 
answer=40349ctx=related


Google looks at 100 aspects of a page - and links and link anchor text
are part of the algorithm.

But stating that sites with over 100 inbound links are 'downgraded' -
that's clearly just not true. Check how many links there are to MSN;
Ebay; w3C.org; Adobe Acrobat reader download; Google itself etc.

The rate at which you acquire links is important - but nowhere has
Google ever said that sites with over 100 links are 'downgraded'...

FWIW - I'm seeing some very well coded pages ranking really well in
Google's accessible search.

Best

Chris
http://www.cogentis.com.au/


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Re: [WSG] Google Accessible Search Released

2006-07-21 Thread Tim 

General google page ranking is based on incoming links .
Link farms exploit the algorithm, so google downgrade sites with over 
100 links.
The search engine ranking of google is a travesty on the English 
language.

Writing pages for SEOinvolves lots of repitition of key words.

An English Thesaurus is like the crucifix to the devil for google page 
ranking.


Use MSN or Yahoo anything but the advertising factory.

Tim

I doubt google would sacrifice revenue for accessibility.


On 21/07/2006, at 10:09 AM, Ben Buchanan wrote:


I sent the team the following email this morning...
Subject: A nice first step...


Well said. It's kind of spectacular that Google can produce an
accessible search and STILL not make a best-practice search form or
results page! :)

But it does at least show that it is possible to rank accessible sites
higher than tag soup; perhaps we should by lobbying Google to add this
to their general search.

-Ben

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RE: [WSG] Google Accessible Search Released

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Bennett 
Brilliant - this is exactly the type of thing (ammunition?) we need to help 
push standards and accessibility forward.

I've already forwarded it to my manager ;)

Paul 


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