Re: *ANNC* a webring for the cpm operating system

["*ProteanThread*" <rtdos@rtdos.com>]

"Gaby Chaudry" <chaudry@gaby.de> wrote in message
news:cfvc1f$gkr$06$1@news.t-online.com...
> Hi,
>
>
> Not exactly. Google ranking is based on the number of links pointing to a
> site. The more links point to a site, the more important it is (according
to
> the Google system). And of course a link from an important site is
estimated
> higher than a link from an isolated site.

Then I'm confused.  When I type in 'rtdos' in google, my site is the 1st
listed.  Are you telling me that there are a lot of links to my website ?

> So if you want to promote a new site, the best way to get it "googled" is
to
> ask others with high-ranked sites to link to it.
> And of course send it to the ODP (dmoz.org). ODP editors don't care about
> how established a site is, nor how popular, but just about the contents.
> Many other web directories are nowadays based on Dmoz (e.g. yahoo, aol,
> a.s.o.)
>
> Unfortunately I didn't find any content on your CP/M page... :-((
>
> Btw, you should read
> http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

I read it once before.  :o)
Theres been quite a bit of discussion about this on alt.comp.freeware (one
of my normal groups that I frequent) so I guess its really a matter of
choice versus netiquitte.

> Best wishes
> Gaby

Thanks again for your input.