I was reading an interview over at WebPro News, of Matt Cutt's where is was asked how often the algorithm changes. He stated that it was tweaked 450 times last year. I found that amazing.
Yes they're making it think more like a human. Meaning Google now pays attention to site stickiness. Obviously a good content site will be sticky. Hence Google will rank it higher.
Yes Friends, its correct, google is going to make lots of changes in algorithm. please check out video of interview- Matt with Mike McDonald http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/11/18/matt-cutts-on-changes-at-google/' and also Matt has explained this theory on the blog www.mattcutts.com/blog/pubcon-video-interview/ Thanks Eric
That does make sense. It also means I'm going to start putting some videos or inline games up to keep people on the site.
can anyone elaborate this sentence please "blackhat SEO will become even more malicious - subdomains vs. subdirectories"
the line between blackhat / spammer / hacker is often already blurred. as blackhat is mostly automated procedures, why bother spamming places when you can break into vulnerable blogs and put your links on their homepage?
Here's the link of the article: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/18/what-googles-matt-cutts-sees-in-2009 Matt Cutts states this:
I have the best Papua New Guinea web site, and I can only get to top of page two on Google. Amazes me that they can't see that and put it number one. I even have a PR higher than the sites before me. Can anyone explain this?
I went through all the information in matt cutts links... and seen the video too... really its a great info. on Google Algo. Basically i got the best info. on subdomains vs subdirectories... Thanks.
Well, they have to. Webmasters these days are trying to manipulate ranking in search engine, so it does make sense for them to change the algo.
The sites ahead of you have "Papua New Guinea" more often in the anchor text of their backlinks. Plus their sites might be older, carrying heavier domain weight. Solution: targeted links from authoritative domains.