RE: FN-FORUM: Google webmaster tools

date posted 18th October 2007 14:19


not exactly sure what you are saying / suggesting ?


>
> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>> seeking to obtain traffic through the highly competitive
>> Google bottleneck.
>
> Bit tangential, but this phrase struck a chord with me and suggested a
> possible solution, which may be unfeasible, unattractive to Google an/or
> already discussed extensively, if so forgive me, SEO is not my thing; the
> problem seems to be that only the first x pages on google for a given
> search
> phrase have any value (choose from 1/2 to 5 depending on how much faith
> you
> have in users).
>
> That creates a huge bottleneck when you are saying that worldwide
> competition for that phrase is fighting for those slots. Therefore would
> it
> not make sense to ease the bottleneck by adding a random element to the
> sequence, whether it was a random multiplier applied to the current
> weighting for each result, or some form of banding so that the top 100-200
> results all count as "highly relevant" and then order within that is
> randomised? Clearly algorithm would actualy be morwe complex base don
> number of results, but put that to one side.
>
> Obviously this has potentially to marginally affect overall relevance for
> google users, but given the frequency of spamming anyway that may be less
> significant than the effect it has on sites honestly looking to be
> indexed.
> This way there are at least a decent number of slots to compete for and
> less
> incentive to be #1, more incentive to be in top x.
>
> Without this it seems inevitable that legitimate sites will be drawn to
> the
> dark side - if white hat pratices only get you into the top 100 at present
> this is no real use so you would be tempted to use black hat techniques to
> get into top 10?
>
> Maybe it would just move the goalposts and you would just get black-hat
> competition for the top 100 slots instead of top 10, but...?
>
>
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