I'm Building a Search Engine.....need Advice

[schmidte]

I'm building a small niche search engine for fishing lures, the software I'm using gives me the option to set "relevancy factors". Each factor has a number between 1 and 10 with 10 being more of a relevant piece of information on a particular webpage. For now I'm just using the default settings.....Here they are:

TTITLE FACTOR.............10
DESCRIPTION FACTOR.....5
KEYWORDS FACTOR........5
CONTENT FACTOR..........1
RANKING FACTOR...........5

(ranking factor is the popularity of a page and number of pages that link to it)

If you were me, what value would YOU give to these factors. I myself thought that CONTENT should be higher.

Thanks,
ED

[fischermx]

RANKING (LINK POPULARITY)
CONTENT KEYWORDS
TITLE

I remember some 6-7 years ago, one could type "mickey mouse" and easly endup in a porn site, because most engine those days trusted the description keyword.
At least, even the title can be tricked, it is public.

[namewaiter]

i'd say content factor should be a 10, not the lowest - title/description and keywords are all just basic info to try to attract traffic, but the content is king.

btw, could you pm the software you're using?

[schmidte]

i'd say content factor should be a 10, not the lowest - title/description and keywords are all just basic info to try to attract traffic, but the content is king.

btw, could you pm the software you're using?

PM Sent

ED

[Darren06]

content should be number 1

[wistow]

could you also pm me the software you are using please

Oh and btw, i agree, content should be the deciding factor - if a site is full of words about animals, chances are the site is about animals if you get what I mean. Title/description can be tricked

[schmidte]

could you also pm me the software you are using please

Oh and btw, i agree, content should be the deciding factor - if a site is full of words about animals, chances are the site is about animals if you get what I mean. Title/description can be tricked

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ED

[Jernet]

CONTENT FACTOR
RANKING FACTOR
TITLE FACTOR
DESCRIPTION FACTOR
KEYWORDS FACTOR

The power should be in this order. You should have a mini-google with this hierarchy ;0)

[fischermx]

I have to ask this :

When you guys says "CONTENT" as one item and "KEYWORDS" as other what do you mean ? Aren't you meaning the meta keywords right ? Cause they're pretty much ignored for anything like ranking.

Also, by saying "CONTENT" alone, what do you mean ? the quality of the content ? the quantity ? Isn't the keywords relevance and density what we are talking about here ?

BTW, could you tell the software you're using ?
I don't think it is a sin to make it public, is it

[Jernet]

I have to ask this :

When you guys says "CONTENT" as one item and "KEYWORDS" as other what do you mean ? Aren't you meaning the meta keywords right ? Cause they're pretty much ignored for anything like ranking, except the listing.

Also, by saying "CONTENT" alone, what do you mean ? the quality of the content ? the quantity ? Isn't the keywords relevance and density what we are talking about here ?

yes, keywords are pretty well worthless these days. they used to be king at one time.
now keyword links on the other hand are very valuable, but i don't think that's what they are asking here.

as far as content; quality and quantity. keyword density is a part of that factor.

if i am correct in my assumption, the search engine script in use, probably doesn't go really in-depth like Google, I am sure, so when all these things are taken into account, I'm sure that is just the basics of these ideas.

to really 'build' a search engine, you would need millions, if not billions of dollars, which is only left to the big players.

[schmidte]

I'm using Heathco Search Engine Software, It's got a simple web interface for administration. I've indexed approximately 430 sites with somewhere around 22,220 pages. I'm using it at www.lures.info

http://www.heathcosoft.com/webproducts/searchsite/
try the demo

ED

By the way....did you know that indexing sucks the life out of a server....The night I indexed the 22,220 pages it was using 60-80% of the resources on the SHARED server where I'm Hosting it..........They sent me a warning.........whoops!!!!

Also...co$t to implement niche search engine:
Domain name thru Pool.com....$60.00
Software.........$99.99
Hosting/Year.........$17.40

total=$177.39