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Let Google do its job

gabor on 2004-02-16T16:46:57

As I learned in from this message on a recent discussion on the module-authors mailing list you can link to any distribution on search.cpan.org using a URL similar to this: http://search.cpan.org/dist/*

e.g. Devel-ptkdb would always link to this distribution even if new versions were uploaded or if the maintainer changed. In addition you can link to the documentation of Devel::ptkdb too without any question marks or other things that Google does not like.

This is great because if Google can index these pages and if many people will link to useful modules then Google will rank them high and other will find them too.
Great !

I am going to look around my links and will make sure all of them point to such a URL.

Links for google

mock on 2004-02-16T23:52:38

If you're going to take the time and trouble to redo all your links, make sure you use a nice bit of descriptive text in the link so that google will return it on keywords people might actually use. Something like Business::PayPal is a perl module for automating PayPal transactions. Pagerank isn't usefull in itself, it only matters for a given set of search terms, which are largely determined by the linking text and Google's summarization of the page itself.

more search cpan tricks

gabor on 2004-02-20T08:08:03

more search cpan tricks from Spoon.