RE: suggestions

I was reading a very interesting web page about how to improve your
ranking on google http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/google.shtml   It
suggested downloading the Google toolbar - which on the face of it looks
quite interesting.

According to the toolbar http://www.w3.org has a page ranking of 10/10.
http://www.w3.org/International/ achieves a ranking of 8/10, which I
thought is pretty good too.

I was also intrigued by some of the languages available (see the
attached picture) - especially given that they seem to use an rfc3066
type label on the download page.  I wonder what they say for pig-latin,
or elmer-fudd.  Let me know if you have time to find out :)


RI

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Richard Ishida
W3C

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tex Texin [mailto:tex@i18nguy.com] 
> Sent: 24 July 2003 23:57
> To: Martin Duerst
> Cc: ishida@w3.org; 'GEO'
> Subject: Re: suggestions
> 
> 
> Yes, but we shouldn't presume we will be at the top.
> I wouldn't doubt that it is likely we will be near, but 
> banking on it is silly.
> 
> The main w3c pages are near the top, but certainly not all. I 
> do a number of searches where pages from other sites 
> dominate. The key to making a page have a high rank is links 
> to the page and proper use of keywords that you want searches 
> to find the page with. (e.g. bidi, unicode, double-byte, etc.)
> 
> I am just suggesting we use something that makes the page 
> easy for people to pull up.
> 
> tex
> 
> 
> 
> Martin Duerst wrote:
> > 
> > At 17:42 03/07/24 -0400, Tex Texin wrote:
> > 
> > >I think as a name "W3C Internationalization FAQ" is fine, 
> but it is 
> > >non-unqiue so if anyone googles for that title they get 2780 other 
> > >pages, and it is hard to narrow it down further.
> > 
> > Good point. That is of course okay if we are at the top.
> > And it should be possible to do that because:
> > - W3C does seem to have quite a bit of Google-Karma
> > - We will have all three words, in that order, in the title,...
> > - We will of course produce more and more content and will
> >    be linked from other places
> > 
> > So I'm not too worried, but of course if we have a better idea, I 
> > don't object.
> > 
> > Regards,    Martin.
> > 
> > >Almost all web pages about web technology mention W3C, many have 
> > >FAQs, and a good number mention internationalization...
> > >
> > >Personally, I would stick the GEO in there to make it identifiable 
> > >and credit the group, while making it clear in the text or 
> somewhere 
> > >that it is open to others in (just?) the WG to submit.
> > >
> > >If not GEO, let's make up some other acronym or identifier that is 
> > >memorable and uniquely searchable to make it easy to find.
> > >
> > >Anyone got any fun acronyms?
> > >
> > >TWINQ (pronounced twink!) The Web InternationalizatioN Questions 
> > >WIN-FAQ
> > >
> > >Richard's I18n Almanac? ;-)
> > >
> > >(I'll work on this later...)
> > >tex
> > >
> > >Richard Ishida wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Title repaired. Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > The page heading shouldn't say GEO, since this is a WG thing - 
> > > > although we do mention that GEO members are principally 
> > > > responsible. (I'm still hoping that we might get occasional 
> > > > contributions from core and ws folks).
> > > >
> > > > I too have been wondering about the "Questions & Answers" thing 
> > > > lately. I'm very tempted to call this a FAQ list - like 
> everyone 
> > > > else does, and like I had to to explain clearly what it 
> was while 
> > > > doing outreach at LISA.
> > > >
> > > > Why don't we rechristen it as "W3C Internationalization FAQ" ?
> > > >
> > > > Votes or counter proposals, please.
> > > > RI
> 
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