All this inbound links business...

I have noticed many people emphasising the importance of text in inbound
links. So i decided to add some internally and a couple from a PR7 and PR6
external site.

What did google do for my trouble for that search term - drop me 4 places.

So much much for inbound links and their text!!!!

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I have noticed many people emphasising the importance of text in
inbound links. So i decided to add some internally and a couple from
a PR7 and PR6 external site.

What did google do for my trouble for that search term - drop me 4
places.

So much much for inbound links and their text!!!!

But did your PR improve?

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I have noticed many people emphasising the importance of text in
inbound links. So i decided to add some internally and a couple from
a PR7 and PR6 external site.

What did google do for my trouble for that search term - drop me 4
places.

So much much for inbound links and their text!!!!

But did your PR improve?

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PeterMcC
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No :-(

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I have noticed many people emphasising the importance of text in
inbound links. So i decided to add some internally and a couple from
a PR7 and PR6 external site.

What did google do for my trouble for that search term - drop me 4
places.

So much much for inbound links and their text!!!!

But did your PR improve?

--
PeterMcC
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inappropriate or offensive in any way,
please ignore it and accept my apologies.

No :-(


Well not visibly anyway - was 5 and still is.

John Dingley wrote:

I have noticed many people emphasising the importance of text in inbound
links. So i decided to add some internally and a couple from a PR7 and PR6
external site.

What did google do for my trouble for that search term - drop me 4 places.

So much much for inbound links and their text!!!!

Nonsense! You either did the two links in-correctly or there's something
wrong with those two sites you added your links to. Give me those two
links and I can tell exactly what you did wrong or what's wrong with
those two sites. ~Sam

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 18:33:09 +0100, "John Dingley"
<john (AT) notrealurl (DOT) dot.com> wrote:

I have noticed many people emphasising the importance of text in inbound
links. So i decided to add some internally and a couple from a PR7 and PR6
external site.

What did google do for my trouble for that search term - drop me 4 places.

So much much for inbound links and their text!!!!

Without detailed information the above proves nothing.

When did you make the changes?

Did you make other significant changes within the last 2-3 months or
something negative occurred in this period (i.e. an important set of
links was removed)?

How many other links are there from the PR7 and PR6 pages? If above 50
don't expect them to do much.

Based on your report that your PR has remained the same after adding
PR7 and PR6 links I suspect you made the changes less than 4 weeks ago
or there are a lot of links from the pages.

There has been a lot of talk about Google having a rolling index where
what you do today shows quickly.

I'm tracking a lot of SERPs for myself and clients sites (almost 50
URLs worth) and I'm not seeing any major difference in the way SERPs
change than I did 6 months ago or even a year ago.

What you do today might not show full effect for over 3 months. This
works both for positive and negative changes.

To give you an example, a month ago I removed 500 text links pointing
to a site, as I expected the SERPs have continued to improve since the
links where only a few months old at the time I removed them.

I expect in two to three months time the SERPs of this site will drop
significantly if the links aren't replaced.

Remind me in October and I'll say whether I was right or wrong and you
could report again how your SERP is doing.

An exception to this is with relatively easy SERPs and the addition of
a lot of very high PR links from long term sites (ones that have had
high PR for ages). These types of SERPs are a lot more fluid, harder
SERPs tend to take lots of time to see improvements even with masses
of high PR links.

David
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I have noticed many people emphasising the importance of text in
inbound links. So i decided to add some internally and a couple
from a PR7 and PR6 external site.

What did google do for my trouble for that search term - drop me 4
places.

So much much for inbound links and their text!!!!

But did your PR improve?

No :-(


Well not visibly anyway - was 5 and still is.

Ah well, virtue is its own reward.

That didn't help, did it?



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John Dingley wrote:

I have noticed many people emphasising the importance of text in inbound
links. So i decided to add some internally and a couple from a PR7 and
PR6
external site.

What did google do for my trouble for that search term - drop me 4
places.

So much much for inbound links and their text!!!!


Nonsense! You either did the two links in-correctly or there's something
wrong with those two sites you added your links to. Give me those two
links and I can tell exactly what you did wrong or what's wrong with
those two sites. ~Sam

Sam replied : Nonsense

Well that's an interesting comment based on the fact that it actually
happened!! My site was untouched for weeks and was always at the same
position more or less. I added these links and the internal one and BAM! The
sites from which the two links came are well respected sites with index PRs
of 8 and 7 (my site was on their 7 and 6 PR pages).

They were only added about two weeks ago - so I don't know if they should be
showing up yet but they sure have been spidered and cached. The links do not
show up using the link: command though but that doesn't mean much these
days.

The only thing I can think of is that my internal links back to my main page
may have triggered some google alarm as they used to me home or main site
and I changed them to xxxx xxxx home (where xxxx and xxxx are key word
phrases)