{"id":138,"date":"2007-11-24T00:14:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T05:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2007-11-24T00:17:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T05:17:46","slug":"how-to-maximise-your-pageranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"How to maximise your PageRanking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/links.jpg\" title=\"Links\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/links.jpg\" alt=\"Links\" height=\"205\" width=\"409\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s PageRank system rules the web, right? This is the algorithm that determines how far up the list yer site appears in a given Google search. A better ranking can mean big bucks for some sites<\/p>\n<p>The PageRank algorithm is closely guarded secret. But a growing number of academics are trying to reverse engineer the algorithm so that they can better understand how it works (and presumably to boost their own ranking).<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows that ya can boost yer ranking by getting other popular sites to link to you. That ain&#8217;t always so easy.<\/p>\n<p>But another question is how best to arrange links between pages within yer own site to boost your ranking.<\/p>\n<p>When you have a group of pages, various theories  have been put forward: should you make your links into a ring structure with no center or a star-like structure with hub  or some other shape?<\/p>\n<p>Nobody knows, or at least they didn&#8217;t until Cristobald de Kerchove at the Universite Catholique  de Louvain in Belgium came along. Using some reasonable assumptions about the algorithm and a few impressive mathematical techniques, he&#8217;s worked out the optimal linking strategy for boosting your PageRanking.<\/p>\n<p>This is it: arrange your pages in a simple forward chain so that each links to the next but at the same time include every possible backward link (see diagram above).<\/p>\n<p>Simple when ya know how.<\/p>\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0711.2867\">arxiv.org\/abs\/0711.2867<\/a>: Maximizing PageRank via outlinks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s PageRank system rules the web, right? This is the algorithm that determines how far up the list yer site appears in a given Google search. A better ranking can mean big bucks for some sites The PageRank algorithm is closely guarded secret. But a growing number of academics are trying to reverse engineer the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nets-n-webs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}