On 18 Jul, 20:33, "Harald Schilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Sage folks, as promised in my last website posting [1], here a > bit more how things evolved.
I think the homepage could be more search engine friendly, which should help the rank on google. There are a lot of keywords, but I'm not convinced they are in the right order: This is what the keywords currently are: sage, sagemath, sage math, open source, floss, free, software, software package, mathematic, mathematics, math, maths, cas, computer algebra system, python, cryptography, numerical computation, algebra, group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, calculus, symbolics, number theory, mathematical programming, scientific computing, mathematical education, free software, interactive maths, alternative, groups, finite field, linear algebra over finite fields, free advanced algebra program, advanced mathematical software, gf(2), opensource math, mathematics software free, math notebook, free math software, William Stein 1) Now I think there are too many there, which probably does not help the page rank. I'm not an expert on this, but I think that an excessive number does more harm than good. 2) I believe the order affects the rank too. I find it hard to believe that they are optimal. 3) One of them is "mathematic". Is that supposed to be Mathematica? Here are a few suggestions. free mathematica, free maple, free mathematics software, download mathematics, sage, open source mathematics, free computer algebra system, mathematics software, mathematical software, symbolic computation, mathematica clone, maple clone, arbitrary precision arithmetic, plot graph, 4) If I type 'free mathematica' into google, the number one hit is this question on a forum: http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=189 Sage is not even mentioned as one of the free versions - all the others I can think of are. It would be worth someone registering and saying a bit about sage. Google seems far the most popular engine, so I would worry about that more than any of the others. 5) Typing 'free maths software' brings up http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Software/ as #4. (dmoz is a list of open source software). I've been told before that it is quite important to get in the dmoz directory, but I don't see Sage listed there. 6) I believe links to sites from sourceforge are quite helpful. It might be worth finding some relevant software on there, and asking if they will link to sage. I'll stick a link from http://witm.sourceforge.net/ for you. 7) You could try asking on one of the web developer sites for suggestions how to improve ranking. uk.net.web.authoring is a newsgroup, which has a slight uk bias, but 95% of the questions on there are just as applicable to any other country. I've found them pretty helpful in the past for suggestions how to improve a site. 8) Typing 'mathematics university' into google I get 95 million hits. Google insists on sending me to google.co.uk, so I get mainly uk universites. The top ones are Warwick, Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, University College London. I would bet all of them have "links" pages. Why not ask them to link to sage? 9) Since Microsoft Research are funding sage, how about trying to get Sage listed on the M$ web site? I don't even see it mentioned on the page dealing with US university research. I would suspect if Google finds microsoft linking to a site, it would push it up the page rank a lot. 10) Ask regular users of Sage to link to the site. 11) I think the plan should be to get well respected sites - major universities, Microsoft (as much as I hate to say it), 12) Once a Solaris port is done, try to get Blastwave and Sunfreeware to keep packages. I'm not sure if Blastware will, as I think they want Solaris 8 packages. But I guess if it does not run on Solaris 8, they might accept it. You might get some problems getting Sunfreewave to have a package, as the owner of that site (Steve Christensen) works for Wolfram Research, produces his own Mathematica addon and moderates comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica. I suspect, given he does not allow other software to be discussed on comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica, he might be reluctant to produce a package for Sage. But you can only ask. Sticking 'solaris software' into google I find www.sunfrerware.com is the top hit - more than www.sun.com !! At number 4 is http://www.solaris4you.dk/sunsolaris.html which is a list of free solaris software. Anyway, perhaps there are some ideas for ways to improve the number of visitors to the site. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
