Rankmaniac 2012

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Rankmaniac 2012 is a search optimization contest, held annually as a part of Caltech's CS 144: Ideas Behind the Web. We are Kijun Seo, Soonwon Choi, and Euiwoong Lee. This site is awesely hosted by Github. It's just a static page, but you can still check out the source code here.

Rankmaniac 2012 Try 2

Rankmaniac 2012 Try 2: Supposedly, it helps to repeat Rankmaniac 2012, the keyword, multiple times on the same page. Let's try that. In this Rankmaniac 2012 exercise you’ll try your hand at search engine optimization. Your goal is to create a web page, with keyword Rankmaniac 2012, that ranks highly under Google and Bing. To motivate you, we’re bringing a little competition and school pride to this Rankmaniac 2012 competition. Students at CMU attempted to do this rankmaniac 2012 competition number of years ago as part of their course “Science of the web” – we expect Caltech students to ‘outrank’ their best rankmaniac 2012 efforts!
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Background: Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of increasing the trafic to a web site by improving its ranking on search engines for certain relevant keyword searches, such as Rankmaniac 2012. Rankmaniac 2012 project was originally designed by Luis Von Ahn at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Von Ahn is famous for developing the Captcha and reCaptcha system that is used to stop spambots.
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Let's see if we can take down their efforts from years before, with Rankmaniac 2012. Your task: Working in groups of 3-4, your objective will be to create a page that will rank as highly as possible among the search results on Google and Bing for the query “rankmaniac 2012”. You will be evaluated based on the ranking of your page for rankmaniac 2012 on February 15, 2012 at 12:30pm.

Rankmaniac 2012 Try 3

When I searched images for "Caltech", I noticed that the pictures all looked similar.
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Rankmaniac 2012 and Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website like Rankmaniac2012.github.com search engines via the "natural" or un-paid search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list for a certain query like Rankmaniac 2012, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users looking for Rankmaniac 2012. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search (rankmaniac 2012), local search, video search, academic search, news search and industry-specific vertical search engines. As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work, what people search for, the actual search terms like rankmaniac 2012 or keywords typed into search engines and which search engines are preferred by their targeted audience. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of backlinks, or inbound links, is another SEO tactic. Should work on this.

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Tips for Optimizing Images for Search Engines

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