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More options May 10, 2:33 am

From: BillW

Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 23:33:23 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sat, May 10 2008 2:33 am

Subject: Re: Results Ranking

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This is common. I have pages that are outranked by social bookmarking
links submitted by my visitors. That's why I took the social
bookmarking links off my pages, so that I would not contribute to my
own lower serps.

For some reason Google can not figure out that links pointing to pages
should be ranked lower then the target page. In my case, the social
bookmarked links have only one occurance of the search term, whereas
my page has four.

There is too much emphasis on links and pagerank, and not enough
credit for onpage text usage. Hopefully Google will work to fix our
problems soon.

On May 9, 6:09 pm, cricketer wrote:

> I have a small cricket spreadsheet site that has been listed on Google
> for a while now. When I was trying to get my site indexed, I asked
> some larger cricket sites to link to it, which they did.

> Now, when you search for 'cricket spreadsheet' or something similar,
> two larger cricket sites that have a link to my site show up on the
> first results page (with the link to my site shown in the result
> blurb), while my site is on page five or six.

> Statcounter shows that I'm getting 95% of my traffic from these link
> pages rather than from Google results, presumably because users search
> Google
> and navigate to my site via the link pages on the first results page.
> As all the users are staying on the site for a while, I'm guessing
> they were looking specifically for my site rather than trawling the
> links pages.

> Questions: If my site was getting all of these hits direct from
> Google (rather than the link page middle man) my site would go higher
> in the results, right? Does my site get any credit from Google or
> just the link page? Can I do anything?

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