Interesting thing I noticed about how google is ranking me compared to MSN/Y

I had been trying to rank for a certain niche term and a variation thereof. I was using this in all my anchor texts and had my site optimized for this niche term. example "flat blue widgets"

Then I noticed I began ranking #1 for this term pretty easily in yahoo/msn and 1st or 2nd page in google. I was even ranking #5 for the much more generalized term in yahoo and msn (especially yahoo) example "blue widgets"

But I noticed that I literrally am not in the top 100 in google for this broader term. The only thing that I had done differently is that I had not ever used my anchor text as "blue widgets" before...only variations of "flat blue widgets".

So this perhaps is a newbie conclusion but it seems that google won't even think about ranking you for the term "blue widgets" unless you specifically have used that as an anchor text. (unless of course you're an authority site)

So along with trust rank/authority ness, it seems that they really want to se some incoming links with that specific term.

that's my theory,

your thoughts?

 

Google runs a complete different level from those other two. You will have 1000 links indexed on each of the other 2 and google will index 4.

You could be right when you say that you have to use the specific term to be ranked for the term for google. It does not surprise me at all and actually affirms what I thought.

Thanks,

George Christodoulou

 

I'l try dat for sure

 

Google only shows a limited amount of backlinks via their backlinks command. There is no way to "really" know how many links you have indexed for sure. You're best bet is to see what Yahoo! has indexed for links.

Not true. It's just a broader term and therefore you'll have much more competition, which means age of domains will be significant and age of links will be significant; 2 factors that are very important to Google search results.

I've ranked lots of sites with the broad terms, in which case the anchor text being used was more niche-y. Google knows your site is about that broad search phrase, you just need to get better links and have a site that's a little older.

It wouldn't hurt to switch up your anchor text every now and again, always keeping that broad search phrase within your anchor text, as well as going for that broad search phrase.

You'll get there though

 

You're actually probably right. This makes sense. I see alot of the older site sites really eating up the top spots. Gotta love yahoo and msn for their spam friendly ness =)