Comments on: Google’s Top 10 Choices for Search Results.

By: SearchTroop

SearchTroop — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:01:36 +0000

Agreed… .edu and .gov links don’t necessary imply that a site should be considered more important. Good analysis though.

By: SEO Expert

SEO Expert — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:25:29 +0000

Think about it. If it were up to you to write the algorithm that weeded out junk, would it not be logical to look at domain age, who is info, .edu , .gov links and other similar characteristics at least in part for determining rank. Over time, cheap little tactical approaches will be stifled… and quality links will hold more and more weight.

For thoughts on how to get links from .edu - try your college alumni site, they often post profiles of alumni and would be glad to give you a link. How about designing a few free websites for some local schools and government agencies and asking for a link in return - very altruistic and “not evil”, which should be supported long term by the mother ship.

By: David Brown

David Brown — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:26:42 +0000

I didn’t realize that age was such a factor. This is also helpful because I wasn’t sure if they liked .edu’s or .gov’s better. Is a page that is frequently updated better than one that is stagnant. I know that sites that are updated regularly are better than ones that aren’t but does that also apply to individual pages?

By: Vertical Measures

Vertical Measures — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:47:54 +0000

I just followed today’s post back to this 2-year old post. You really think this is still true? I am not sure I believe the college paper one any more. And thankfully, it seems spam sites are turning up less and less.

By: Jeffrey L. Smith

Jeffrey L. Smith — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:16:07 +0000

If you clearly identify all of the possible word combinations, acronyms, semantic word stems and mix up the chronology when building links, you can essentially dominate thousands of searches from gaining traction from the long tail of search.

Add specific exact match link building to get a specific leg up in the SERPs and presto, achieving top 10 rankings become as common as sending an email. Take for example our website, it is only 1 year old, and we have over 4000 unique search compatible keywords. While most struggle to get out of the sandbox, we were ranking in multiple top 10 results, all as a result of authority and content development and using a diverse base of Class C-IP’s to get the juice.

Once you got it, everything you publish goes straight to the top.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:22:05 +0000

I’m just thinking, how in the world do you get a link from a trusted site, i.e. edu or gov?

By: Internetagentur Frankfurt

Internetagentur Frankfurt — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:11:42 +0000

If the trust factor becomes more and more important, how can non-english sites get trusted links from edu and gov sites?

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By: Cigar Fumar

Cigar Fumar — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:32:18 +0000

Yeah, I think about Gooogle and what most people use it for, too.
(Sometimes I think it’s just a bunch of bullshit.)
But, you know, whatever.

Thanks, you’ve been great.

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