On Jul 20, 1:43 pm, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > me either, but what i mean is to promote sage on google.com (the right > column of sponsored links). from my last analysis, the market for the > keyword "mathematica" is too expensive, so i'll first have to find > good keywords. for that, i've downloaded all the google query stats > for sagemath.org (this is a list of all queries in the last month, > where sage has shown up somewhere down the results and a list for all > clicked results and their position). > then i can try to state this a minimax problem like: "what's the > cheapest set of keywords that indicate the most promising display of > an ad for sage". I'll try this in september and report how it worked. > If someone want's to play with the data, ask me ;) > > harald
I'm not sure the best method of getting the right keywords. Your data from the web server logs shows you the searches that worked and sent people to the sage site. What they do not show, which is probably the more useful, is keyword searches which did not cause someone to click a link to sage, but would have usefully generated such a link. But I don't know any way of getting that data. It's probably not possible, although perhaps there is ways of getting this sort of thing from search engines. Would it cost any less to get "mathematica" if it was combined with another word, so one only got the advertisement to appear if someone typed "free mathematica"? I would have thought one of the largest markets for Sage would be those that know of Mathematica, but can't afford it. The top Google hit for when using the two keywords mathematica and free, is: Free Mathematica-like program http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=189 Since that is a forum, I've just added a mention of Sage. So you now appear on the top hit for "free mathematica" - albiet only on a forum. The next two are WRI websites. Somehow I don't think they will let you add a link. Next is http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_download_mathematica_5.0_for_free_through_net_for_windows which looks to be more for pirated software, as he wants to download version 5.0 of Mathematica for free. Sage is #6 in that list, so you should be pretty pleased with that. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
