After Googlebot also Livebot has came to the light… but as you could easily observe it has some spindering/indexing problems :D

As usual I have to thank Motocarota that has drawn my thoughts!

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Think to Google and to words “Don’t be evil” ( its corporate slogan ) …

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The goal of this article is to show how to exploit Google imperfect translations to increase your website traffic.

Disclaimer : this is only a hack and you should not use this idea in your site because search engines may not like it :P … but hack is always a good thing ;)

Here you can find a sample PHP 5 Google translator API class useful ( read it if you plan to apply the idea described in this article ).

Google bot indexes relevant content of each page of your website, and so each word used in your texts could be a valid keyword to be found in search engine’s results. This simply means that producing more relevant content chances to be found grow.

Your site’s language is only your main language? What would happen if you translate your pages in more than one language? Simple, you’ll get more daily visitors!
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Sitemaps are of primary importance in Search Engine Optimization ( SEO for friends :) )

PHP Wget Sitemap Generator class takes advantage of wget to get a local mirror of the target site and then generates the url list for the sitemap via local directory listing.
Wget is highly configurable so read the man page of best options to use (replace exec function argument).

The code:
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This PHP 5 class API is developed on the base of a tool that I wrote some years ago.
Simply works querying Google translation tools with the text and language pair choosen.
I find it useful because of Google haven’t released yet an API for its translation tools.
Here the code!
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Author: Paolo Ardoino
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important”. by Google

PR(A) = (1 – d) + d (PR(T1) / C(T1) + … + PR(Tn) / C(Tn))

PR(A): Pagerank of a page A

d = 0.85

PR(Ti): Pagerank of page Ti which links to A

C(Ti): number of outbound links on page Ti, which has given the link Average Links per Page = 40

The following PHP script generates a simple chart that could be usefull to know how many links are needed
to increase pagerank; it takes script taking average links per page as parameter
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