Page titles viewed as backlinks? What do you think..

http://www.viperchill.com/blog/page-titles-viewed-as-backlinks/

Just posted up this blog entry, wondering whether google sees page names as some form of internal backlink, or simply doesnt have the wording in its system to actually describe why that page ranked for that keyterm

Discussions and comments welcome , and thanks to John Scott for the initial idea

 

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AngelusC,

Excellent test. I'm not sure if you are referring to the page title tag (seo tests are fun), or the actual page name (louissharonsimon.php). I assume you're talking about the page name.

I would say their terminology is correct because all of the links pointing to louissharonsimon.php do appear in the URL of the link itself. As for counting it as a backlink, I'm not to sure about as Google could possibly be finding the term in the URL and just doesn't have standard terminology to say "this term is only found in the url".

If I had to guess, I would say it counts as a link, but carries no anchor text weight for that term (like an image link would).

 

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I was referring to the actual page name, sorry if that wasnt clear. Yes, i was wondering about the terminology about whether they could actually "say it" or not. Interesting ideas, thanks for sharing

 

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