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IMSLP not visible in google
Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:10 pm
by guest_Peter
IMSLP is not visible in Google at all. For example, try "Beethoven public domain sheet music", a common search term I think, and ISMLP does not appear in
the first 150 results 
. That's 15 clicks and maybe more. Worse: try "Beethoven sheet music IMSLP" and IMSLP is
NOT in the 3-page results.
Btw,
www.imslp.com has been bought by some capitalists.
Guest_Peter
Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:15 pm
by Guest
More results; "public domain sheet music IMSLP" or "free sheet music IMSLP" not in the first 20...
a very general search term: "public domain sheet music", not in the first 160.
Search ranking
Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:21 pm
by Sphemusator
Has the IMSLP been submitted to any of the big search engines? or is it just waiting for the spiders to find it?
I expect you to point and laugh
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:30 pm
by imslp
Well... that's a very good point Peter. The reason I think is because you included "sheet music" in the search; I don't think there is any mention of "sheet music" anywhere on IMSLP... try using "score" instead (I searched for "free score IMSLP" and the IMSLP main page was the 5th result)
The reason I never used the phrase "sheet music" is that I thought it was not entirely correct; in conservatories they never use "sheet music", but rather "scores", because saying "sheet music" has a faint connotation of popular music.
However, I think what you're pointing out is very valid, since indeed many people use the phrase "sheet music" as a synonym for scores, and so I'll try to add a meta tag to index.php which includes "sheet music".
Sphemusator: Not really... but all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.) has found the site and indexed all the pages
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:09 pm
by Peter
Well... that's why I never had good results on english in high school...
But hey, I learned two new words today
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:45 am
by imslp
Hehe... and just in case you're wondering I did indeed manage to manually add "sheet music" and a few other keywords. Should be great
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:14 am
by kongming819
So as of now, has visibility increased? I haven't checked yet...no time...
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:24 am
by imslp
Greatly
In March, Google.com was the biggest referrer, with 15138 referrals. This is not taking into account the other language versions of Google; Google.co.uk came in 5th at 2209 referrals and Google.fr came in 6th at 1999 referrals
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:12 am
by kongming819
