The above table means that, for a plural Google search, say for example “Baseball bats”, the URL at number 1 Position will have 86% probability of having also a plural form in its anchor text. This means further that if the top ranking page has 1000 back links, 860 of it are using plural form [...]

Posted in: Google SEO Date Added: December 10, 2009

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I am doing a study to quantify the relevance of title tags and how it effects the Google Search results Ranking. I have hypothesized that the relevance rating of the title tags could be related by: Relevance Rating = Presence of Exact Phrase in Title Tags/ Prominence of the phrase in the title tags A. [...]

Posted in: Google SEO Date Added: December 10, 2009

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Recently, I re-conducted a study with my fellow analyst to prove if self-social bookmarking can help Google ranking. Below are considered : a. No onsite work done, site update and link building done- this is to ensure that any ranking improvement is due to social bookmarking. b. Ranking data before any social bookmarking is gathered. [...]

Posted in: Google SEO Date Added: December 9, 2009

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Objective To determine the top characteristics of quality inbound link for Google ranking improvement in 2008 according to SEO practitioners gathered from top SEO forums. Sampling Plan In this study, the targeted population consists of all the members of the six SEO Forums, Yahoo answers and Google groups. The response of each unique member which [...]

Posted in: Google SEO Date Added: December 9, 2009

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A serious debate in SEO forums: Does high Page Rank and Website Traffic Correlate? Some websites experience high website traffic even with PR 0 or 1 homepage, whilst some homepages with a PR of 6 or 7 receive very little traffic. Well, technically if you understand the definition of Google Page Rank, it is a [...]

Posted in: Google SEO Date Added: December 8, 2009

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This is the study made which shown that the link popularity of sites are of less importance in ranking compared to having high percentage of links from relevant pages and authority sites. Also it shows that the lesser the number of links on the inbound linking page the more juices bleeds to the target page [...]

Posted in: Google SEO Date Added: December 8, 2009

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SEO campaign can be basically divided into two types: a. SEO onsite work b. Link building In the past, Google algorithm is more of offsite factors such as “inbound links”. This happens around year 2000 to 2007. We heard of “Google bombing” in the past that created serious search engine problems such as the President [...]

Posted in: Google SEO Date Added: December 5, 2009

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We have tested that the use of keywords in the internal link anchor text is highly effective in rankings and a particular element that separates top ranking sites to the bottom ones. Basically how we set up this experiment is very simple. Methodology: 1. We compare two pages that ranks in Google for a particular [...]

Posted in: Google SEO Date Added: December 5, 2009

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In SEO Chat Forums I heard a lot of complaints about ranking problems. Below is the short diagnostic checklist that you can used to determine if your site is banned, penalized or just lose to competition. This test assumes your site is live for at least 3 months. As a background: Banned: This is to [...]

Posted in: Google SEO Date Added: December 1, 2009

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We made some statistical study of the domain registration length if ever we can find the average in years for those that are in Google top 10 for any competitive terms. It has been theorized that the longer the registration length, the more trusted the domain to Google. You know why? It shows you are [...]

Posted in: Google SEO Date Added: December 1, 2009

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