Chris - In light of Google's latest changes (i.e. Florida), is there anything you'd change in your articles?
Chris - In light of Google's latest changes (i.e. Florida), is there anything you'd change in your articles?
Have you figured out (or at least narrowed down) why Google drops sites for certain terms?
I have theories but nothing I am going to put into an article yet.
IMO the most likely candidate is Google looking more at the subject of the sites that link to you (beyond just anchor text).
What are your theories on anchor text Chris?
Don't you just love free internet games ?
So by linking to your index page for example, from every page of your site using the same anchor text will be ok? I hope so...
Don't you just love free internet games ?
It hasn't done my carbohydrate counter site any harm. That's linked to with "carbohydrate counter" for every single link.
One thing I noticed when comparing my dropped pages to those which are still highly ranked as that the latter used "home", "index", etc. when linking back to their index (mine used keywords). Just a hypothesis at this point (anybody have URLs that prove it wrong?), but I changed one of my sites and will see if it makes any difference.
I think that the <title> tag and keyword richness of domain has been given more importance...
I think the importance of anchor text and PR has been downgraded due to the fact that they are very easy to manipulate.
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Last edited by ozgression; 02-06-2011 at 05:10 AM.
^Exactly what I was thinking.
That's why from now on Im always making sure the domain I get has the keywords in it I plan to target....
I think PR isn't really a major deal at all anymore. At least it doesn't seem that way right now.
Dave, I PMed you.
How easy is it to manipulate your title tag or domain?Originally posted by ozgression
I think that the <title> tag and keyword richness of domain has been given more importance...
I think the importance of anchor text and PR has been downgraded due to the fact that they are very easy to manipulate.
Of all things, PR and anchor text are the hardest things to manipulate because they require either the help of another webmaster, or for you to have another site that was linked to by other webmasters.
http://www.stuffyoumightlike.com/goo...rt-advisor.pdf
A good read, mostly same thoughts I have. Basically what you need is incoming links from sites dealing with your same topic.
Of course that hasn't been proven yet, it can't be since Google hasn't updated enough times to provide for adequate experimental data.
Again, my carbohydrate counter site uses "carbohydrate counter" as the link back to the home page from every page on the site.Originally posted by pas
One thing I noticed when comparing my dropped pages to those which are still highly ranked as that the latter used "home", "index", etc. when linking back to their index (mine used keywords). Just a hypothesis at this point (anybody have URLs that prove it wrong?)
I actually think PR is just as important as it always was, from what I've seen at least. Finding a site that has a high PR lower in the SERPs than we expect could merely mean that we don't understand how google are now interpreting the other aspects of SEO, that may actually be responsible for that page's lower ranking. I'm still seeing a definite correlation between PR and the sites returned in the SERPs. Got any examples? I only really monitor my keywords, so I'd be interested in taking a look.Originally posted by Shawn Weeks
I think PR isn't really a major deal at all anymore. At least it doesn't seem that way right now.
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