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 Sep 18, 2009 at 3:12 pm |
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  The Imperialist |
Joined: Dec 2, 2007 Location: New Attnam Interests: bananas Posts: 1227 Groups:     |
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google search Problem: this website is the #1 search result for "attnam" But for "iter vehemens ad necem" it still hasn't shown up by page 4. It seems like people are much more likely to search for the latter Any suggestions for boosting the ranking? | ||
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Sep 18, 2009 at 3:16 pm |
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 Mage Prophet |
Joined: Dec 3, 2007 Occupation: Standing between all life and death. Posts: 2094 Groups: | |
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Use "Iter Vehemens Ad Necem" more? EDIT: Now there is a link to here on page 3. | ||
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Last edited by chaostrom : Sep 19, 2009 at 2:27 am. | ||
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Sep 19, 2009 at 6:15 am |
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Master mine stomper |
Joined: Dec 16, 2007 Occupation: Nothing, why ask? Location: In a dungeon far, far below, searching for items rightfully mine. Interests: Contents of your pockets Posts: 1604 Groups: |
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Wow, chaostrom, you've got power! | ||
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I'm the master sissi who PISSES off MINES. | ||
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Sep 19, 2009 at 2:16 pm |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2008 Occupation: Turns out I can't have a cool avatar, I'll just put crap in it. Location: 48kg / 105 lbs Interests: My name is Failbert Posts: 697 Groups: |
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Ha, I spotted us on page 2 already! | ||
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Well I assume that a bolt has a given, numeric, amouunt of perwer. (assi in enegri)... unless it's LAERSER SKISKLS POEWN PEWN! | ||
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Sep 19, 2009 at 2:38 pm |
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The Imperialist |
Joined: Dec 2, 2007 Location: New Attnam Interests: bananas Posts: 1227 Groups: |
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Haha, great work guys  | ||
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Sep 19, 2009 at 2:50 pm |
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| Mage Prophet |
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Holy shit. I actually didn't think it'd be this effective. Guess this is why I'm the Grand Visor...  | ||
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Sep 19, 2009 at 2:51 pm |
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The Imperialist |
Joined: Dec 2, 2007 Location: New Attnam Interests: bananas Posts: 1227 Groups: |
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hmm.. just searched again and I see a link to the wiki on page 3, but no link to the forum so far on page 10  Yahoo has us on page 2 though  | ||
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Sep 19, 2009 at 2:53 pm |
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| Mage Prophet |
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Damn, what happened? | ||
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Sep 19, 2009 at 4:40 pm |
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angel |
Joined: Jan 25, 2008 Occupation: Turns out I can't have a cool avatar, I'll just put crap in it. Location: 48kg / 105 lbs Interests: My name is Failbert Posts: 697 Groups: |
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The link to the wiki is the ~34th result when searching through google.pl. | ||
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Well I assume that a bolt has a given, numeric, amouunt of perwer. (assi in enegri)... unless it's LAERSER SKISKLS POEWN PEWN! | ||
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Sep 19, 2009 at 7:31 pm |
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 archangel |
Joined: Jan 11, 2008 Posts: 944 |
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Frankly, I think it'd be more useful to make us show up higher for I V A N itself, rather than the Latin. How many people do you really think are going to remember how to spell the Latin? Edit: I really was hoping that was shoutbox-only. :sigh: | ||
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Sep 20, 2009 at 1:47 am |
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| Mage Prophet |
Joined: Dec 3, 2007 Occupation: Standing between all life and death. Posts: 2094 Groups: | |
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I believe it's time for plan B. The first page of results are all game review sites, we ought to go give 'em our link. | ||
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Sep 20, 2009 at 5:08 am |
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The Imperialist |
Joined: Dec 2, 2007 Location: New Attnam Interests: bananas Posts: 1227 Groups: |
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Don't worry BDR I'm going to change it. It was sort of just a joke but I was also curious if it would have any effect. btw, typing it not using all caps bypasses it as well. The problem with using "Ivan" is that there are just so many different Ivans aside from the game. Of course, the official website does show up as result #2, but the rest of the results are all referring to people / companies. Maybe "Ivan rpg" or "Ivan roguelike" would be terms we should aim for | ||
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Sep 20, 2009 at 5:57 am |
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The Imperialist |
Joined: Dec 2, 2007 Location: New Attnam Interests: bananas Posts: 1227 Groups: |
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Oh and by the way, you may notice some links look like this: http://www.attnam.com/viewtopic.php?t=732 While others look like this: http://www.attnam.com/topics/732/google-search As you can imagine, the latter will definitely be more helpful with search engines. I just need to go through and make sure all the links are consistent. | ||
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Sep 20, 2009 at 10:46 am |
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Atavus' Little Helper |
Joined: Dec 2, 2007 Occupation: archmage Location: Attnam Interests: roguelikes Posts: 368 Groups: |
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Maybe there are too many keywords in headers, which makes each of them less important? Just an idea, I don't know how exactly headers help search engines... But I think some of these keywords are not useful. | ||
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Sep 20, 2009 at 10:52 am |
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archangel |
Joined: Dec 11, 2008 Occupation: Not making sense Location: The Gate Interests: Magical Cooking! Posts: 974 Groups: |
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You might consider converting the ancient IVAN website into a huge signpost pointing viewers towards these forums. God knows who has the power to do that now. Oh, and if the name of this website was www.Itervehemensadnecem.com it would likely be the first result on a google search for "Iter Vehemens ad Necem". | ||
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Sep 20, 2009 at 11:06 am |
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Atavus' Little Helper |
Joined: Dec 2, 2007 Occupation: archmage Location: Attnam Interests: roguelikes Posts: 368 Groups: |
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There should be a link from the wiki to the forum, or the main page. I also see that www.attnam.com in general has a very low page rank, placing links to it in various places would help. Is it really impossible to get Hexii or Holybanana to add just this small link on the official website? I have no idea for other places. EDIT: OK, there is a link from the wiki to the forum, but it is hard to see. | ||
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Sep 21, 2009 at 4:55 am |
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The Imperialist |
Joined: Dec 2, 2007 Location: New Attnam Interests: bananas Posts: 1227 Groups: |
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I added a more prominent link to the wiki. It would definitely be really helpful if we had the link added to sourceforge. Our page rank is 1/10. Isn't that a measure of how popular the website is across the entire internet? For something devoted to just one RPG, I don't know if we can expect any better than that. | ||
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Sep 21, 2009 at 11:25 am |
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Atavus' Little Helper |
Joined: Dec 2, 2007 Occupation: archmage Location: Attnam Interests: roguelikes Posts: 368 Groups: |
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http://www.adom.de/ is also devoted to one roguelike RPG and has pagerank of 5. Of course we are less popular than ADOM, but I suspect our pagerank should be something like 3. Pagerank is somehow related to the structure of the links in Internet, meaning that if good sites link to us, we are also good. A sourceforge link would be definitely helpful. | ||
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Sep 21, 2009 at 12:30 pm |
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archangel |
Joined: Nov 22, 2008 Interests: IVAN Posts: 839 Groups: |
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Pagerank depends on two things: how many links link to us, and the pagerank of those that link to us. Saying IVAN a lot won't help that much, exchanging links with other sites will. | ||
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Beware! 'tis EagleV, Hardcore Weaver of Baskets! | ||
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Sep 21, 2009 at 5:05 pm |
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The Imperialist |
Joined: Dec 2, 2007 Location: New Attnam Interests: bananas Posts: 1227 Groups: |
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I see. There are quite a few gaming websites linking to ours though... I checked their pageranks and they're all in the 3-5 range. These are just the most recent that visitors have come from, but there have been more in the past. http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=IVAN http://jayisgames.com/archives/2008/11/weekend_download_64.php http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Roguelike http://libregamewiki.org/Iter_Vehemens_ad_Necem My other website is much bigger than this one and has many links from high page-rank sites (several with 6-8), yet also has a pagerank of 1/10 | ||
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