Have you factored in inbound links?&nbsp; They are votes also.<br><br><b><i>Darrin Chandler &lt;dwchandler@stilyagin.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 12:38:00PM -0700, keith smith wrote:<br>&gt; True content is master and google is working on weeding out the guy who list 20 businesses on a page with google ads.<br><br>Heh. Google *is* working on it. But it's an arms race.<br><br>I, personally, have a way of measuring Google's progress. I have a<br>section of my site with some East Valley restaurant reviews. They are my<br>own reviews. They are unique content, with details, links to the<br>restaurant web site, etc., etc. I have made no attempt (on purpose) to<br>make them attractive to search engines. Instead, I've designed them for<br>the visitors.<br><br>Now and then I check my stats. For certain very specific queries I'm the<br>#1 result. For
 other queries I'm lower. Sometimes I'm #2 or #3 and the<br>pages above me are meaningless, content-free entries of restaurant<br>mega-sites: they scraped phonebook entries and put it on a page.<br><br>When Google puts my page below an AzCentral or Phoenix New Times review<br>I judge that to be proper. When Google puts me beneath a page with a<br>name, phone number, and address I know they have a long way to go before<br>they can weed out the web spam.<br><br>-- <br>Darrin Chandler            |  Phoenix BSD Users Group<br>dwchandler@stilyagin.com   |  http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/<br>http://www.stilyagin.com/  |<br>---------------------------------------------------<br>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change  you mail settings:<br>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<br></blockquote><br><BR><BR>- - - - - - - <br>Keith Smith<br>- - - - - - -
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