I really do think that when google is concerned content IS king.
I had a website that wouldn't rank at all since the start of this pagerank system. So I decided to increase the size of my website by adding some more pages. Then I went even further by including around 10 articles I found on the internet (on these reprint article websites). That meant I had around 20 pages in my site.
Needles to say i'm now in the top rankings for my keywords.
check it out (look for the article links at the bottom right of the page)
keywords for google + yahoo - trace people uk, uk people tracer and around 6 others in top 10, some are no.1 !
demonhale posted this at 00:50 — 29th June 2005.
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I'm Glad youve discovered this...
For quite some time that IS the Case...
robfenn posted this at 10:14 — 29th June 2005.
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First of all, well done but i wouldn't read in to it too much. True content is important as Google is finding relevant information on your website. However incoming links are very important since it is showing other people think your information is relevant.
You have to make sure you are coming from all angles, because at the next algorithm change, you could be at the bottom. Don't rest on your laurels!
-Rob
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Megan posted this at 13:38 — 19th July 2005.
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Which is why good content is a win-win situation. If you have good content people will be more likely to link to you, which increases your linkbacks and therefore your ranking overall.
Megan
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Mrlinux posted this at 21:31 — 1st July 2005.
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But the question is what google consider GOOD content?
dvduval posted this at 03:20 — 4th July 2005.
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I'm afraid anchor text is at least as important when it comes to big $$$ keywords.
sparkimarki posted this at 20:06 — 8th July 2005.
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Content is difficult to assess - does google really know the difference between
Great Travel Deals - Book online for best prices
or
Travel online for Great Book Deals best prices
Is this a Travel Site or a Book Shop?
How do you judge related sites from that?
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steve40 posted this at 10:48 — 19th July 2005.
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Good content is based not on how much there is, but whether it is revenant to the sites stated title. And how informative the information truly is.
A web site about making paper airplanes, would not be considered informative, if half of the info dealt with lead ship anchors. Even if there were 10,000 pages of it.
locatepeople posted this at 18:12 — 20th July 2005.
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If you look at the pagerank system what it does is count up all the internal links from each webpage pointing to each other as part of its scoring system.
So the more webpages with suitable sized content that contain links to the other pages in your website the higher your score fot that part of the pagerank computation.
Right?
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steve40 posted this at 11:09 — 21st July 2005.
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There is a trick to that. If you title you pages like; website name + page name, it does not weigh as much. But if you title your pages like; page name + website name, it is counted the same as any other link.
To give an example, my site is a PR 3, each of my other pages are a PR 2 because they inter link. But I have one that links from the main PR 3 page only, it has a PR of O even though it links out to other pages. Now each of these pages will in turn help the others to maintain a better PR. Except for the one. I don't know even if the main page it links to were a PR 6 , if it would get a rank, even though it links through to other pages. It has only one incoming link. So linking your pages together, in a continuous loop will help.