juust ~ php oddities

In the series ‘how to manipulate google‘ : pagerank sculpting 101.

If I build a site about “LCD television” and want to promote three specific brands/offers, I want Google to index the product/offer-pages as most important in the site, and not the index page.

How do I achieve that ?

Some basic theory : I have two rings of pages, one with four pages (B), and one with three (A), linked over one page (AB),

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…after running that through a pagerank simulation, I get these results :

…the linking page (AB) sheds its juice to two rings, 3/5 vs 2/5, and by doing so drains the smaller ring. Being the only page that gets links and juice from all other pages, the ab-page itself scores the highest ‘importance’ in the website.

Conclusion : adding some subpages in a smaller ring to a page makes it relatively more important in the website.

Let’s add some more subrings :

The importance of the product pages seems to drop, but the ratio prod-n/home improves, so it works out better.

Home-links

By not linking back to the index page from the subpages, the product pages end up with a higher rank within the site.

If I do link from each subpage (S) to the index page (home) (what wordpress themes generally do)

…I get these results…

…the home page is indicated as most important in the site, which isn’t what I wanted, so I omit the home-link on subpages.

End of the sculpting session.

(note: this is, of course, all theoretic)

Here is some shot from my new job (’sailor’) : basically what we do is sail around all day with guests.

When we are done sailing we go party with Heidi and Heino and the local clergy

…or we enjoy the serene peace and beauty of nature and stuff…

…all summer…

That seems fun, an open source seo toolkit. It is a five second install multi-user package offering simple stats, but more interesting, a semi automated website directory submitter in a clean interface, and could be a valuable service offer if you run an seo community site.

It is PHP MVC and, what sparked my interest, it has a plugin interface.
I love that, It could be going somewhere over the next few years.