A proposal for enhancement of Sudanese Public Universities websites using Page Ranking algorithm

Abstract

Web Data Mining is an important area of Data Mining which deals with the extraction of interesting knowledge from the World Wide Web, Hyperlink analysis was important methodology used by famous search engine Google to rank the pages. The problem of this research is the low rank of Sudanese universities websites on the web especially the Sudanese public universities websites. The aim of this research is to analyze the Sudanese government universities to know the low Rank reason and suggest strategies to enhance the rank. In this research, scientific papers in this field were first reviewed, and then search engine optimization tools, university website links and PageRank algorithm were used. It was found that the reason for the low rank is poor design and insufficient internal and external links, so it suggested strategies to enhance the rank