On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Ray Burkholder <ray@oneunified.net> wrote:
Just in case anyone cares, from personal experience, I can see that Google's priority is indeed 'rank by content'. Everything else is fluff.
This is not true. It's been well documented that PageRank uses a number of metrics, probably the most important of them (in terms of ranking) being the number of links to a page or site (and I believe, the PageRank of the pages/websites those links come from). One of my websites has consistently been in the top 10 or at worst top 20 results when searching for the word "megapixel" despite the word only appearing on the resulting page about 4 times - if it was simply content based there's no way that site would be ranked so highly. Scott.