Originally Posted By: tacit
FTM is in Google's index, but it doesn't have a very high page rank yet.

I'm not sure that changing the name would help. Rather, the single most important factor to a site's PageRank is the number of sites that link to it. If we can get more sites linking to FTM, our Google search position will go up.

The links that I've found in places like CNet comments don't help, because CNet puts a "nofollow" tag in forums and comments (basically, an instruction for Google not to consider those page links when calculating page rank).

How about if FTM's pages had tags which did the opposite of "nofollow"?

I was noticing that some sites use various "<meta " tags:
  • apple.com/

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-us" lang="en-us">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
        <title>Apple</title>
        <meta name="Keywords" content="Apple" />
        <meta name="Description" content="Apple designs and creates iPod and iTunes, Mac laptop and desktop computers, the OS X operating system, and the revolutionary iPhone." />



     
  • macworld.com/news.html

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title>Apple, Mac, iPod and iPhone News | Macworld</title>
        <meta name="description" content="Up to the minute news on the latest apple products including Mac computers and software, iPhones and iPods." />



     
  • macintouch.com/

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
    <html>
    <head>
        <title>MacInTouch: timely news and tips about Apple Macintosh, iTunes, iPhone and more...</title>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
        <meta name="description" content="The MacInTouch Home Page is the original Mac news site, providing timely, reliable news, information and analysis about Apple Macintosh systems since 1994, plus iTunes, iPod, iPhone and Mac OS X.">
        <meta name="keywords" content="Macintosh, Mac, MacInTouch, Apple, AAPL, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, Mac OS X">



     
    And even the extremely talented Amit Singh...
     
  • kernelthread.com/projects/

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
        <meta name="Description" content="Amit, Singh, Amit Singh, Embedded, Hanoi, Hanoimania, Operating Systems, Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HURD, Bootloader, Programming, Programming Languages, Networking, Operating Systems, Protocols, TCP/IP, Publications, GNU, GPL, Publications, Resume, Virtualization, Virtualisation, Kernel, Device Driver, Hardware, Software, Data Networking, IIT, IITD, IIT-D, IIT Delhi, Delhi, Bay Area, Bell Labs, Bell Laboratories, Lucent, Eclipse, Eclipse/BSD, Quality of Service, QoS, Guaranteed Service, Schedulers, CPU, Disk, Fair Share" />
        <meta name="keywords" content="Amit, Singh, Amit Singh, Embedded, Hanoi, Hanoimania, Operating Systems, Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HURD, Bootloader, Programming, Programming Languages, Networking, Operating Systems, Protocols, TCP/IP, Publications, GNU, GPL, Publications, Resume, Virtualization, Virtualisation, Kernel, Device Driver, Hardware, Software, Data Networking, IIT, IITD, IIT-D, IIT Delhi, Delhi, Bay Area, Bell Labs, Bell Laboratories, Lucent, Eclipse, Eclipse/BSD, Quality of Service, QoS, Guaranteed Service, Schedulers, CPU, Disk, Fair Share" />
        <title>Amit Singh: Projects</title>

Might such keywords and/or description meta-tags provide any boost?