How does Google work?
Sep 13, 2005 | 7:28 am
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How does Google work?
Just wondering how does google ranking work? Is it based on popular hits? Can one pay google to be placed on the top of the search rankings?
Are the third party companies that promise that your keywords on your site will be on the top of the search rankings actually just hitting your site a lot or do the third party companies actually pay google?
Are the third party companies that promise that your keywords on your site will be on the top of the search rankings actually just hitting your site a lot or do the third party companies actually pay google?
Sep 13, 2005 | 8:39 am
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Originally Posted by bagold
Just wondering how does google ranking work? Is it based on popular hits? Can one pay google to be placed on the top of the search rankings?
Are the third party companies that promise that your keywords on your site will be on the top of the search rankings actually just hitting your site a lot or do the third party companies actually pay google?
Are the third party companies that promise that your keywords on your site will be on the top of the search rankings actually just hitting your site a lot or do the third party companies actually pay google?
One simple test--are the companies in question at the top of the list when you search for them? My attempt produced a sponsored link but the rest of them weren't such sites. Conclusion: It doesn't work.
Sep 13, 2005 | 11:58 pm
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Here's a technical article on how Google does its page ranking.
Sep 14, 2005 | 6:31 am
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Originally Posted by alanh
Here's a technical article on how Google does its page ranking.
another technical article on pagerank
Sep 14, 2005 | 8:39 am
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Thanks for all the technical reading.
So it looks like one cannot pay google to rank their page at the top. So does that mean 3rd parties who say they can do that for you actually hit my pages many times to increase our page rankings?
So it looks like one cannot pay google to rank their page at the top. So does that mean 3rd parties who say they can do that for you actually hit my pages many times to increase our page rankings?
Sep 14, 2005 | 10:15 am
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And they get other pages to link to you. Lots of pages linking to you give you a better ranking:
You might check to see if the number of other sites that link to your URL has decreased. This is the single biggest factor in determining which sites are indexed by Google, as we find most pages when our robots crawl the web, jumping from page to page via hyperlinks. To find a sampling of sites that link to yours, try a Google link search.
You might check to see if the number of other sites that link to your URL has decreased. This is the single biggest factor in determining which sites are indexed by Google, as we find most pages when our robots crawl the web, jumping from page to page via hyperlinks. To find a sampling of sites that link to yours, try a Google link search.
Sep 14, 2005 | 11:39 pm
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Originally Posted by bagold
Just wondering how does google ranking work? Is it based on popular hits? Can one pay google to be placed on the top of the search rankings?
Are the third party companies that promise that your keywords on your site will be on the top of the search rankings actually just hitting your site a lot or do the third party companies actually pay google?
Are the third party companies that promise that your keywords on your site will be on the top of the search rankings actually just hitting your site a lot or do the third party companies actually pay google?
Sep 15, 2005 | 8:15 am
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Originally Posted by cordelli
And they get other pages to link to you. Lots of pages linking to you give you a better ranking:
You might check to see if the number of other sites that link to your URL has decreased. This is the single biggest factor in determining which sites are indexed by Google, as we find most pages when our robots crawl the web, jumping from page to page via hyperlinks. To find a sampling of sites that link to yours, try a Google link search.
You might check to see if the number of other sites that link to your URL has decreased. This is the single biggest factor in determining which sites are indexed by Google, as we find most pages when our robots crawl the web, jumping from page to page via hyperlinks. To find a sampling of sites that link to yours, try a Google link search.
looks like google has managed to dilute the effect of link spamming, but it's still a factor