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How to influence Google search results
For some topics Google’s search results are less than perfect. For example, high-ranking technical pages on Perl are out of date. If you want better search results, you need to tell Google what you’d like to see in its search index. How do you do that?
Cast your vote!
Put the search term on a web page, and link it to the target page. For example, I’d like the search term “access file with perl” to present me with https://metacpan.org/pod/Path::Tiny. A link like this:
means that when Google crawls this page, it will consider it my vote to push that page toward the top of the search results.
Okay, where’s the voting booth?
That’s the easy bit - and it’s free!
- Create an account at Github.
- Create a simple markdown web page.
- Whenever you find a search term for which Google should get a better link, add it to your page.
Here’s the source code - with markdown it’s really easy.
Of course, not all votes are equal. Google’s indexer will give more weight to my links if you link to this page. If you think this page is helpful, please link to it like this:
[How to influence Google search results](https://andrewsolomon.github.io/influence-google-search-results)
and tell the world through Twitter!