How the heck do you find ENWorld?!?!

[Creamsteak]

I've been playing with google for a bit. I "think" you can indeed alter a sites placement by searching for x then only clicking on the site for the link you want. I don't know how well that would work for broad searches though, I've only tried it with really precise ones.

 

[AGGEMAM]

I don't know how it works. I think Google is the more important place to be listed, though. How do we fare there?

yeah, you can't beat Hong (except with a stick)

 

[Gez]

If you want to help ENWorld, here's what you can do:

Everyone, just make a webpage (on which the bots can go), wich contains the words RPG, D&D, d20 and the other keywords you want, and with a single link toward ENWorld.

When Google will investigate your page, it will add +1 to ENWorld to each of the key words.

By increasing ENWorld's score, it will allow it to reach a higher place.

That's a method that works well -- it has often been used for various jokes, usually non-grandma-friendly, from "miserable failure" (first entry for that is "Biography of President Georges W. Bush" on the whitehouse.gov site) to "santorum" (I won't even say what the first entry is, but it's not senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania; and I advise grandmas everywhere to not indulge too much in their curiosity on that one).

It's called "google bombing". RPG D&D Dungeons and Dragons ENWorld d20 Role Playing Games JDR Jeu de rôle news forums messageboards beat hong with a stick

 

[Gez]

By the way, ENWorld is already 3rd choice for "beat hong with a stick": http://www.google.com/search?q=beat+hong+with+a+stick

 

[johnsemlak]

By the way, ENWorld is already 3rd choice for "beat hong with a stick": http://www.google.com/search?q=beat+hong+with+a+stick

Wonder what the ohter two are...

 

[diaglo]

eric's grandma gives you the top of page 2. http://www.google.com/search?q=eric's+grandma&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N

 

[MerakSpielman]

By the way, ENWorld is already 3rd choice for "beat hong with a stick": http://www.google.com/search?q=beat+hong+with+a+stick

Note that if you look for the exact phrase (i.e., put quotes around the phrase) ENWorld is the ONLY hit.

It's good to see we have that market corner covered.

 

[Buttercup]

Hong needs to know about this. I'm sure he'll be very proud.

 

[Darkness]

We're also most of the first 10-20 sites for "EN World."

And the first two for Morrus, Crothian and Piratecat.

Only the 8th for "c'mon, august" though.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I think one of the issues is the fact that EN World has had several URLs over its history. The more folks create links to one (and only one) URL, the better the ranking for that URL and thus the higher it will appear on Google.

Which is why the cyberstreet address and others need to not point to the site - that way more people are using the "real" address and less the cyberstreet one (which has problems anyway).