Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030131182141.027f30f0@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:25:56 -0800 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: i have a similar site as cygwin.com... want to link to you In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hey! I've got an idea. Why don't we each send Angela a reply tell her what we think of her suggestion (whatever that may be). Please be thorough in explaining your point of view. RRS At 14:48 2003-01-31, Angela Karesh wrote: >I noticed cygwin.com (Cygwin) ranked #24 in Google for the keyword >".dll". I have a website that is a good match for your's and I think >it makes sense for us to link to each other for 2 important reasons: > >1 - It will be beneficial to both our users (most important!) >2 - The more links we both have pointing at our site... the higher we >will both naturally rank in Google. > > >Google doesn't just analyze the number of sites linked to you, >however... they also look at how relevant and "important' the sites >are that are linked to you. My site, for example, is listed in Yahoo. >This means that a link from my site will be weighted much heavier than >links from other sites (you can read more on how Google uses Link Pop >to determine rank here: http://www.google.com/technology/index.html ) > >I really think it would be in both our interests to link to each >other's sites. If you're interested, please reply and let me know. >I'll send you all the info you need and I'll get your info as well. > > >Thanks for your time... I know that this will be worth your while. > >Angela -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/