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 More options May 10, 1:59 pm
From: Red Cardinal
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 10:59:11 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, May 10 2008 1:59 pm
Subject: Re: Results Ranking
No. It is a matter of relevancy AND authority.

Unless you get your head around that you'll never understand how
Google determines the results it displays.

On May 10, 4:58 pm, BillW wrote:

> Just because Digg or another social bookmarking site has one occurance
> of a keyphrase in a submitted bookmark does not mean it should outrank
> the site it is linking to for that exact same keyphrase where it
> appears multiple times.  It's a matter of relevancy, and in some cases
> Google misses the target big time.

> > > 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.

> > What on earth makes you think repeating a word will increase your
> > ranking for it?


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