Other blogs

We've reserved a bunch of other blog names for two reasons:
1) Google seems to like links from blogspot, so it should up the pagerank of our main blog if we link from our "other" blogs.

2) Reserving the URL's early will prevent other groups from getting good URLs, which will of course help us.

I have also added a link to this site from http://www.bryanjadot.com, my website.  I will soon add another from http://ugcs.caltech.edu/~bjadot

Google vs. Bing

VERSUS

After a day with the Super Bowl picture we are already doing pretty well on Google (yaaay!  we're the the 4th picture!), but have yet to make an appearance on the image search of Bing.  As a matter of fact, the image search for "rankmaniac 2012" on Bing returns only two results - the Carnegie Mellon and Caltech logos.

So as I usually do when I don't know something, I googled "how does bing work".  While I have yet to dig through all of the results, the top Google hit, a blog about SEOs, explained how to get a higher rank on Bing the best.  Apparently, Bing puts more emphasis on the domain age (older = better) and on links from pages with the keyword in the main tag.  In other words, it looks like we need to more research on how to get ranked on Bing image search.  (Bryan, get on that.)

Updated image

Does it matter if the actual image is not on our rankmaniac blog server?  The original one is from Real Clear Sports so this is just a copy, but should now be on this server....?  We shall see...

Link us!

Also, if you've gotten this far, link to us (and thank you)!  Add myrankmaniac2012.blogspot.com to your facebook, google+, personal webpage, the signature of your emails,... We would appreciate the publicity :)

Rankmaniac 2012 – Reloaded

Have you ever noticed that you don't need to sift through pages and pages of google (or bing) results to find exactly what you were looking for? Ever wonder how google knows exactly what you're looking for?  It turns out there's a lot of math and graphs and a special analysis called PageRank (which did not get its name because it ranks pages, but is apparently named after Larry Page).

So, the purpose of this course project is to manipulate our way to the top of this system.  The higher we rank on Google and Bing image searches, the better the grade we get.  The most obvious way to do this is just have heavy traffic come through this blog!  So tell your friends to visit us and click on the Super Bowl picture when you image search "rankmaniac 2012".

Rankmaniac 2012 website

Also, check out the sister rankmaniac 2012 website here if you want to learn more about what the Caltech CS144 assignment is.

Rankmaniac 2012 Team Members

Rankmaniac 2012.  Should we use this image for our Rankmaniac 2012 project?  The Super Bowl is coming up this weekend, and we're hoping to ride on some of the hype somehow.

Our team is Janis Intoy, Bryan Jadot, Daniel Chen, and Judy Mou.

Rankmaniac 2012 test post ...

Test post for our rankmaniac 2012 project! What image should we use?