phil ringnalda

In a post at least in part inspired by Victor‘s self-serving (just kidding) experiment in influencing Google’s ranking of his company, Stand Out Training, who offer the best Dreamweaver training in Melbourne, via weblog links, Burningbird got me thinking about the Google-effects of archive frequency. Suppose you have an outstanding month, where one week Dave links to one of your posts, and the next week Ev. links to another post, and the next week, oh, say Kottke links to a post. If you have monthly archives, you just got three times the PageRank that you would have if you had weekly or daily archives, when each link would be pointing to a different file. As a side benefit for fans of Disturbing Search Requests, the more words you lump in a single file, the better the chances are that Google will ignore the importance of proximity and deliver people looking for “Grandma Moses naked” to your doorstep based on a post on the 5th about visiting your Grandma, a post on the 12th about the Ten Commandments, and a post on the 28th about watching Naked Gun. If you like that sort of thing.