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Originally Posted by Terry Van Horne
Probably not, but, that only prooves that 1 in [pick a huge random number] can ahieve that. how does that proove anything other than it's easy to promote brand names. I can't optimize what I don't have 100% control over. Link text is a gamble at best and that's the only way you place for competitive terms when the term is not on the page. I've seen a few SEO terms that were using paid links do it ... but never an example that occurs naturally without some form of promotion/manipulation. It happens but the fact they make a point of telling the user it's a result of the links could be an indication that they don't really want that, IMO, it's viewed as an anomoly. ie:unexpected/unwanted result |
Don't you think that the site of Dell ranking high for the word computer makes sense? That's not an unwanted result. That's exactly what they designed their algorithms for. Notice that those same sites also rank in the top in Yahoo, though a bit lower. Shows that links are as important to Yahoo as they are too Google. Though the emphasys may be a bit more towards links in Google than in Yahoo.