Hi, Just trying to learn a few things, I see so many sites that seem to have nothing but links to other pages in its own site, sites like search engine sites that have thousands of pages, that link back to the home page. Lots of these sites seem to have a good pr too and get lots of traffic, is this a good way to get high pr? Or are these sites normally shoirt lived and over inflated? Thanks for your help Lee
I imagine it's something akin to an MFA site. I've stumbled into pages via Google that looked like additional Google results, and I was like WTF? I've found that most of these are on expired domains...
are you provide and example url? your example looks like mfa sites . i'm a bit confused what you mean
Have you ever used google to look for something and clicked into a page with additional search results? It's unlikely anyone will provide an example url...it's generally not the type of page people bookmark. So if you've never gotten crap results from google, then you may never know If you'd want to really know what it looked like, then search for the something on Yahoo, remove all of the YAHOO tags and banners, and then imagine it was a link you clicked while looking through Google results.
I think I know exactly what you mean. You got the google toolbar and when you click backward links or do link:url all you see is internal links but the site's SERPs are good. Google is a bit slack with its backlink results. Try link: on yahoo.
These sites are called metaserch engines. They parse other SE's SERPS and deliver the results in their own layout with their own adds. Since the titles, snippets and links are VERY relevant to the querry, some time ago it was a very quick way to get into SEs and get a substantial traffic. Now they are loong way down the results with major SEs, though they still rank well with some smaller SEs.
If a site was like this, how would (those pages) get crawled and indexed in the SE in the first place?
Why not? Look at a Yahoo's SERP for the keyword "mortgage". There is lot's of this word occurances, relevant links(to pages that do already rank well for "mortgage" with relevant anchor text, the word itself is usually bald or strong and a relevant text around the link. It could look to a SE like a directory page, containing relvant sites only(since their relevancy had been really determined by a SE itself). Having a link to #1 page for a keyword could look like a link to an authority site which could help rankings as well. This technique used to work quite well. Now nearly all sites had been penalized or even banned.
thanks for that, the site in question I am looking at (sorry can not disclose it) when i put it in goole i get 183,000 results, If I g to yahoo as suggested I get 579! Major difference, reason I am asking is that I have been offered this site, it is receiving around 10,000 uv per day, and has page rank of 4! I am trying to work out if this is a good buy or something hat will only be short lived? It has been online since Feb, can it last online pulling in these kind of results or will google sort it out? Lee
If the site is the exact kind of what I described - watch it going down, that's for sure. Google has some special attitude to sites like this PM me the URL if you wish to know for sure