Contest - The Best Indian Business School Blog
November 24, 2004 12:17 AM
So here we are, nearing the end of the contest. I am not in any of the winning positions. That's fine. I know I was at the top for the most number of days, almost eight. It would have helped in getting a 'stability' award. The important thing was I got to learn a lot about Google's way of ranking content.
Apart from the usual - semantic markup, number of links, site pagerank, etc. that are necessary, freshness of content also is very important. Freshness, in turn, depends on how frequently you update your site. Sumit had some concerns about his site not being indexed. Actually Google indexes your site completely once a month only. Rest of the time, it only indexes the linked pages. During the course of the contest, there were some discrepancies also. This page managed to stay in the top results without any content and without any updation! Google has its strange ways. The constant reshuffling that happened can be attributed to the fact that all the top results were more or less of similar importance for the keyword. So slight changes on any of the pages pushed it up or down. Also inspite of having a higher pagerank (6) than any of the participants, I am nowhere in the top. This goes all the way to show how pagerank is not the only factor in Google's ranking criteria.
As for me, let me take solace in the fact that I am among the top in Google's search results for some common keywords. So much for ego-surfing. :)
11 comments have been added.
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1.
god said...
boy... i never knew u would get this upset ... ok let me see if i can fix ur position ... but for that u have to remove all the bugging comments ..... 9 repeats in comments to ur page are too bad ...being a rank 6 page ur site will be crawler some where at 3 gmt tomorrow ...
just make an announcement in blogshares like chigwangs did .. that would fetch u a link before a recrawl ... then leave the rest to me.. but keep it ready by morning ... i will ask my share if u win don't forget that
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Nilesh said...
Dear god, thanks for taking all the trouble to come down from heaven and giving my this vital information. But I request you to leave those innocuous comments alone. They are generated by the famous thousand monkeys (the same ones that power /.) and the Camel. Also can you make that announcement on Blogshares as I have terminated my account there long time ago. While you are at it, can you please link my weblog from the heaven.org homepage. That will help in my rankings too. Thanks again…in advance. :)
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god said...
see man ... i felt seriously emotional ... reading ur "ego-surfing" thing ... i am actually doing the work of kicking guys sites at 2:55 am ... so .. atleast remove those comment links on main page .. before the crawler comes ... i will get back to u in 2 hrs
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god said...
if u can help me with my kicking business .. put ur mail id here .. i will send a mail .... on how to do it ... it will save me time ... coz .. i didn't like the way my fun experiment ended ... this is seriously crap ranking order
5.
god said...
if u are feeling bored see this site
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
6.
Nilesh said...
If you insist … (commenting at these wee hours) my email address is at the bottom of this page.
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someinfo said...
it cannot be termed as a discrepancy ... may be it was sheer luck ... check out the following url ... it just happened that the page was there when the crawler came ... :->
rediff.com/r/r/…
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indianalways said...
While you have a great blog, the post sounds like a lit bit of bitter grapes...you entered the contest knowing what was expected - ranking 1 on google... simple. No point in enumerating discrepancies, google idiosyncracies etc... is there?
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Nilesh said...
someinfo: After that little brush with luck, Google had ample time to rate the blog down. It didn't. So it looks like a discrepancy.
indianalways: Woh. Looks like you are trying to read between imaginary lines. Cool it buddy! I observed some things for which I found no explanation. That's it.
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Kanwarjeet said...
Hello buddy ,
Just read the weblog after a logtime .
Good going !!!!
regards
Kanwarjeet
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mahesh said...
hai ..it's kick in pagerank depend on site using.i stress on alternate way to innovate the pagerank formulation..ie alternate of both title as well as keywords
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11 comments have been added. Add your comments.
1. god said...
boy... i never knew u would get this upset ... ok let me see if i can fix ur position ... but for that u have to remove all the bugging comments ..... 9 repeats in comments to ur page are too bad ...being a rank 6 page ur site will be crawler some where at 3 gmt tomorrow ...
just make an announcement in blogshares like chigwangs did .. that would fetch u a link before a recrawl ... then leave the rest to me.. but keep it ready by morning ... i will ask my share if u win don't forget that
2. Nilesh said...
Dear god, thanks for taking all the trouble to come down from heaven and giving my this vital information. But I request you to leave those innocuous comments alone. They are generated by the famous thousand monkeys (the same ones that power /.) and the Camel. Also can you make that announcement on Blogshares as I have terminated my account there long time ago. While you are at it, can you please link my weblog from the heaven.org homepage. That will help in my rankings too. Thanks again…in advance. :)
3. god said...
see man ... i felt seriously emotional ... reading ur "ego-surfing" thing ... i am actually doing the work of kicking guys sites at 2:55 am ... so .. atleast remove those comment links on main page .. before the crawler comes ... i will get back to u in 2 hrs
4. god said...
if u can help me with my kicking business .. put ur mail id here .. i will send a mail .... on how to do it ... it will save me time ... coz .. i didn't like the way my fun experiment ended ... this is seriously crap ranking order
5. god said...
if u are feeling bored see this site
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
6. Nilesh said...
If you insist … (commenting at these wee hours) my email address is at the bottom of this page.
7. someinfo said...
it cannot be termed as a discrepancy ... may be it was sheer luck ... check out the following url ... it just happened that the page was there when the crawler came ... :->
rediff.com/r/r/…
8. indianalways said...
While you have a great blog, the post sounds like a lit bit of bitter grapes...you entered the contest knowing what was expected - ranking 1 on google... simple. No point in enumerating discrepancies, google idiosyncracies etc... is there?
9. Nilesh said...
someinfo: After that little brush with luck, Google had ample time to rate the blog down. It didn't. So it looks like a discrepancy.
indianalways: Woh. Looks like you are trying to read between imaginary lines. Cool it buddy! I observed some things for which I found no explanation. That's it.
10. Kanwarjeet said...
Hello buddy ,
Just read the weblog after a logtime .
Good going !!!!
regards
Kanwarjeet
11. mahesh said...
hai ..it's kick in pagerank depend on site using.i stress on alternate way to innovate the pagerank formulation..ie alternate of both title as well as keywords
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