How do google.com, yahoo.com, etc. rank the URL's of submitted sites?

[imported_Tomato]

How do google.com, yahoo.com, lycos.com, ask.com, etc. rank the URL's of website submissions they receive? Is there any info (books, sites, etc.) out there on how one can bump a personal or professional site to the top of the "Results" list when searching without paying advertising fees? A very small number of sites come up repeatedly for certain key words, and I'm wondernig how they get (and stay) up there.

Peace,
Dezign

 

[Johnlee]

There's an interesting article on a portion of your question @ TechReport a coupla days back.

 

[ggavinmoss]

Originally posted by: Dezign
How do google.com, yahoo.com, lycos.com, ask.com, etc. rank the URL's of website submissions they receive? Is there any info (books, sites, etc.) out there on how one can bump a personal or professional site to the top of the "Results" list when searching without paying advertising fees? A very small number of sites come up repeatedly for certain key words, and I'm wondernig how they get (and stay) up there.

Peace,
Dezign

Google's PageRank is a super-secret algorithm. They tell you explicitly how it works, but they'd have to kill you.

Read Here.

-geoff

 

[imported_Tomato]

Originally posted by: Johnlee
There's an interesting article on a portion of your question @ TechReport a coupla days back.

Poking around the site right now, can't seem to find it... would you mind posting a direct link to the article? Thank you.

Peace,
Dezign

 

[notfred]

Google's ranking algorithm.