Ranking Experiment

It used to.

 

When I got my first "good" job working during college while I was on winter break, I messed up one day because I assumed something. I felt like a real jerk and I was actually afraid I was going to get fired. The woman I worked for at the time was a real nasty lady. She looked at me and said, "You know what they say about when you assume things." I answered no. She said, "It makes an ass out of you and me." I was surprised and it was one of those life lessons that I have never forgotten.

Nobody should assume anything. If you don't know, then you should ask. Then sit back and have a cold beer.

 

It ranked 1rst for digital point, and digital point forums. It dropped right when a lot of people complained about yahoo rankings drops, One of my sites got dropped too. The rumor is that yahoo is penalizing the co-op..

 

Shawn, I'm no SEO expert, but don't you think when you can't even find your your own domain name "digital point" in a Yahoo, something is wrong?

You're #1 both in MSN & Google under "Digital Point".

 

It's not directly the co-op that Yahoo is penalizing. A lot of sites that were deemed to be "loose affiliates" were shitcanned. At least that's the going rumor. It's also rumored that this banning was a one time thing, and that new sites are now getting indexed/ranked just fine, co-op or not.

I've got an experiment I'm going to conduct soon for a blog of mine that is running under a folder on my primary domain and give that blog its own domain and 301 the folder on my previous domain and see how well that works out.

 

lol...great response.

Yahoo has been jacked up for a while.

 

MSN: 8
Yahoo & Google: N/A

 

Damn dominic second time in one thread you got that wrong

 

Just going off the dp keyword tracker.

 

Must say I'm impressed with how steady it's been on G UK, between 9-14 for about two months now.

Was reading that "newsworthy" sites could quickly gain large amounts of links without incurring G's displeasure, a site on an African charity might well qualify.....

 

There is nobody at google checking to see which sites just got a bunch of links and if its ok,

glengara with you little innuendos .....

 

If you say so, F77...

 

I can imagine how one site getting tons of links could be deemed as odd while another with similar link increases can be regarded as perfectly fine. I'm with glen on that one.

Google monitors almost all metrics per document as well as per host. No 2 sites are the same.

 

I mean I gues there could be but , there are like a billion sites on the internet

every time something big happens in the news some site gets thousands of links

I think it better to look at more likely causes out there for the way the SEs act

Sure maybe google has thousands of clones sitting around checking ever site that gets a buch of links fast, but doen't seem a bit of reach

They had there inteface supposedly for QCing results but it seems pretty unlikly doesn't it

Its like saying that the coop worked on this site, becasue its green, no one can prove otherwise so I guess its true.

Charity sites are immune to google filters, becasue they are morally good? If you want to go into that sort of logic, to explain why sites rank go ahead but it seems sort unconstructive.

 

If you get a lot of new links from sites that are known to increase OBLs regularly, such as blogs, news sites, directories and portals then that's a whole different story than an entire site that hadn't been growing for months all of a sudden sitewide linking to a site that is getting huge increases in numbers of links from stale documents.

Also a new link from a new document IMO is much more legit than a new link from an old document. Apart from homepages and certain sections, not many pages get updated often. You'll find more new documents made with new links than old updated with new links.

 

Do think they are going to start making arbitary decisions on what can get lots of links and what can't

like if I have bombing making site, and someone makes a bomb from my site and blows something up , and thousands of news sites link to my site as part of the story

will those links get counted ?

or only if its nice site that gets links fast like a charity site?

 

*Do think they are going to start making arbitary decisions on what can get lots of links and what can't*

Yes.

 

I think that to a certain extent it will depend on the past link patterns that have been established for the site receiving the new links.