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This is not a traditional homework help thread.
My friend is doing a CS class about the internet and search engines. Right now he is doing an assignment on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Basically posting links to a website will increase it's page rank on search engines.
The assignment is basically to make a certain website appear at the top of Google or Bing search results when you search for the phrase "Rankmaniac 2010". So by making a blog and posting a link to his website, I am helping him not fail his assignment.
Link: Rankmaniac 2010
Anyways, I guess this thread can be used to discuss SEO and/or weird homework assignments.
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i might be wrong here since i the last time i did seo is 3 years back, but as long as a link has the nofollow attribute ( and all tl forum post links have that ) you wont get the pagerank flow from that site.
So your link here probably does exactly nothing. nofollow is used an almost all comment/forum systems to prevent people spamming links for pagerank 
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Yup, it might have already worked... since the site is #1
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On February 03 2010 22:55 meeple wrote:
Yup, it might have already worked... since the site is #1
I have him as #8...
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7th for me - when you google "rankmaniac"
1st for me - when you google "rankmaniac 2010"
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google searches based on where youre located as well, that might be where the discrepancies are
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Which prof gave this crazy assignment? unlike caltech at all
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He is already down to 4th result on "Rankmaniac 2010" and all the way to third page on "Rankmaniac".
This assignment is actually a competition between all the students in the class, so other students are constantly trying to outrank him.
On February 04 2010 01:19 nosliw wrote:
Which prof gave this crazy assignment? unlike caltech at all Adam Wierman. He is an assistant prof. Apparently he is a friend of a prof at CMU and is trying to outdo an assignment they did there.
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On February 04 2010 06:52 oxidized wrote:He is already down to 4th result on "Rankmaniac 2010" and all the way to third page on "Rankmaniac". This assignment is actually a competition between all the students in the class, so other students are constantly trying to outrank him. Show nested quote +On February 04 2010 01:19 nosliw wrote:
Which prof gave this crazy assignment? unlike caltech at all Adam Wierman. He is an assistant prof. Apparently he is a friend of a prof at CMU and is trying to outdo an assignment they did there.
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=109951
That other assignment?
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On February 04 2010 01:19 nosliw wrote:
Which prof gave this crazy assignment? unlike caltech at all Adam Wierman. He is an assistant prof. Apparently he is a friend of a prof at CMU and is trying to outdo an assignment they did there.[/QUOTE]
Haha I see. What was CMU's best result?
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Interesting topic. I'm guessing that the comments in Youtube advertising "great ringtones at [insert broken link]" is actually comment spam to raise page rankings?
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This sort of link through seo was fixed years ago. These days most linkbacks are ranked, for example a link from a popular design site, to your brand new design site will count more so than a random link from a unrelated forum for example. Most search engines will also black list you if you try to cheat the system too.
The best and only way to raise your page rank(in my opinion) is to have good quality content, with good usage of keywords and meaningful links with similar pages.
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Have you read articles on SEO? Here's some: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277259
It's not just about posting popular links. Google has a ranking algorithm, and good SEO people know how to optimize it. Like you don't want to be in a subdirectory of a subdirectory of a subdirectory of a ...
I don't see the point of asking for help until you've bothered reading some resources on it first. Articles will have much more information than generic and sometimes naive forum advice.
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Sorry to bump this, but this is clearly wrong:
"The best and only way to raise your page rank(in my opinion) is to have good quality content, with good usage of keywords and meaningful links with similar pages."
If you want to know about SEO u really need to dig in. Dont listen to general advice, there is no Build Order for SEO, there never will be, it all depends on the project.
...the only way... seriously, you make me angry.
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