Site 1 : low traffic, ~55 pages index in the API, PR4 Site 2 : easily 20x the traffic of site 1, ~4000 pages indexed in the API, PR4 Why do these have the approximately the same weight? Do we have any idea what counts here? Is it just PR? I would think pages and traffic would cause a drastic difference, but I'm not seeing it at all.
Well, how many variables go into the calculation? It was my impression that PR, indexed pages and traffic all played a part in the algo. But if the algo is secret, then no matter what I post it will all be wild guesses.
well, at the rsik of confusing the matter further. We did an extremely detailed analysis of 10 sites that had a serp rank of 1, 4, 8, and 12 for the same exact search term. The results were surprising in that the # 1 ranked listing had fewer backlinks (in comparison) both in quanity and quality and less PR5+ than the number 8 ranked page. A keyword density also showed the page 1 ranked page had weaker density for the search term. Both the #1 and # 8 ranked page were in existence for approx the same length of time. We looked at many other factors too, and the bottom line is: "it don't make sense to anyone outside Goofle." go figure. That is why it is a secret algo, we can't figure it out. best regards
This is not about google. It's about the co-op network. Totally different things. Totally different algos. Now site #1, which had 25,000 weight just dropped to 1600, still I see no changes. Fryman, if you think you can really give me any sort of hint, here is the domain : spec\sa\ppeal <dot> net Look at it, it went from (approx) 1600 -> 30,000 -> 25,000 -> 1600. All for no apparent reason. That quite sucks when you recalc and get 1600 from 25,000. I'm recalcing intermittently hoping to get the 25k back.