Re: Link Exchange Request

If you don't want to be considered a spammer, may I suggest you take a more
personal approach? Some engines work by themed pages, so backlinks with just
any old site will be no use, and may even be harmful.

Hi,

I think you are giving search engines too much credit. They work on
mathematical algorithms and so to theme a page (let alone a site) is
far from an easy/straight forward task. To really theme a page/site
you need intelligence, knowledge and the ability to make judgements.

I was under the impression that Teoma lends more weight than Google does to the
subject of imbound links, and this is what I had in mind. I don't know if this
means the words on the page are counted, or the text of inbound links coupled
with the text of their inbound links, and so on. I could be wrong, of course.
Google is the one everyone cares about now, but that might not always be the
case and other engines work slightly differently.


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Alice Woolley
http://www.insidethebubble.co.uk/
Inside the Bubble - autism information

the only other search engine that will compete with google is MSN.. MSN only
because they can make the default search thing be MSNSearch, and since there
redesigning it.. What I think Microsoft thinks:
"We dont have to be better than the best, we just have to be adequate that
itd be too much hassle to change"

"Foxglove54321" <foxglove54321 (AT) aol (DOT) comblahblah> wrote

If you don't want to be considered a spammer, may I suggest you take a
more
personal approach? Some engines work by themed pages, so backlinks with
just
any old site will be no use, and may even be harmful.

Hi,

I think you are giving search engines too much credit. They work on
mathematical algorithms and so to theme a page (let alone a site) is
far from an easy/straight forward task. To really theme a page/site
you need intelligence, knowledge and the ability to make judgements.

I was under the impression that Teoma lends more weight than Google does
to the
subject of imbound links, and this is what I had in mind. I don't know if
this
means the words on the page are counted, or the text of inbound links
coupled
with the text of their inbound links, and so on. I could be wrong, of
course.
Google is the one everyone cares about now, but that might not always be
the
case and other engines work slightly differently.


--
Alice Woolley
http://www.insidethebubble.co.uk/
Inside the Bubble - autism information

JohnScott at
www.webmaster-forum.net does alot of test..
he has tested the effectiveness of H1 tags compared to H2s and metatags..
you cna drop by see if he`ll do a test about that//

"Adult Lingerie UK" <lingerie_uk (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

On 11 Aug 2003 00:55:36 GMT, foxglove54321 (AT) aol (DOT) comblahblah
(Foxglove54321) wrote:

I was under the impression that Teoma lends more weight than Google does
to the
subject of imbound links, and this is what I had in mind.

Hi,

To be honest I don't keep track of what other search engines are doing
as the amount of traffic isn't worth the trouble yet, still plenty to
squeeze out of Google for our site :-)

I don't know if this
means the words on the page are counted, or the text of inbound links
coupled
with the text of their inbound links, and so on. I could be wrong, of
course.

No one knows precisely how search engines work, but you can make some
reasonable guesses. For example if the text on the page of a linking
page (other than the anchor text) is considered in the calculation
(i.e. theme based) it's reasonable to assume text closer to the link
may count more and the anchor text will be more important than all the
other text.

Then again it may be a case each word in the anchor text is compared
to the rest of the text and depending on the number of times that word
is on the page determines the weight that link is given. So a link
from a page with a lot of instances of a keyword will be worth more
than a link from a page without the keyword present.

This would be a lot easier to incorporate into an algo than deciding
if a site is about theme X etc...

Until someone does conclusive tests it's all guesswork.

Google is the one everyone cares about now, but that might not always be
the
case and other engines work slightly differently.

And if that happens you can slowly change your site to accommodate the
changes. It's not like Google is likely to shutdown or become
unpopular over night, so we would see a gradual decrease in Google
traffic as the shift occurred.

Speaking from personal experience it took me a few months to learn how
to change our site for Google and at the same time get reasonable
rankings/traffic. Doesn't take long to adapt.

David
_
Adult Lingerie UK
http://www.adultlingerieuk.com

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Alice Woolley
http://www.insidethebubble.co.uk/
Inside the Bubble - autism information