Webmaster Forum / General / Search Engines / April 2004

I'm sure you're all familiar with topsites, which rank your site according
to how many hits you send them. They link back to you usually through a
script, www.topsite.com/out.cgi?yoursiteid
Does the PR transfer this way?

Well, my first serious attempt at getting up Google hasn't gone badly.
Number 1 for ["adult art links"] and number 5 for [adult art links]. Why, in
the unquoted version, does Google rank sites higher in which the words are
not contiguous? I'd have thought it would rank a site that ...

anyone in the UK
there is a program being repeated on BBC1 NOW
about Search Engines
watched it once but wasn't concentrating properly as I was programming

Found this on alt.www.webmaster
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

...seems mostly a total waste of time.
I just came accross one links page with PR5 - with five more links pages
coming off it with PR0 and not much chance in increasing.
Whilst a link from my site gets a fairly solid PR4 link without much

Suppose I have a page called www.widgets.com/about.html  and I want to
change it to www.widgets.com/about_widgets.html or
www.widgets.com/red_widgets.html to give it a little more visibility.
What should I do with the original www.widgets.com/about.html?  That

My site was enjoying page 1 rankings for several months for various targeted
search terms on Google since we went live one year ago, but dropped off
completely in November 2003 and has never reappeared.
As an example, a targeted search phrase of "custom made computers" ranks me:

How can I get a newsgroup thread removed? I asked a question about my
website. Instead of the search engines picking up my site, they're picking
up that thread. Embarrassing! That's not how I want my site represented in
search engines.

It looks like the PR update has happened / happening. My index page has
dropped from 5 to 4 *again*. I am hoping that this is a temporary glitch
- though I won't hold my breath. It doesn't seem to have adversely
affected SERP's as yet though :-)

I'm as close to positive as you can be about this.
I made a new site:
http://www.seothegoodlife.com/
It has no backlinks AT ALL and is only about 5 days old.

Look at the bottom of http://labs.google.com/ where it says:
Passionate about these topics? You should work at Google.
• algorithms
• artificial intelligence

...seems mostly a total waste of time.
I just came across one links page with PR5 - with five more links pages
coming off it with PR0 and not much chance in increasing.
Whilst a link from my site gets a fairly solid PR4 link without much

At the top of my index/warning page, I have a jokey banner: "First in a
field of one for erotic sci-fi toons."
Well, the thing is, if you ask google for "erotic sci-fi toons", it returns
that page and that page alone. So, in a strange kind of a google-orientated

Hello, should i put keywords on each page or just the home page?   Thanks
David
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USA WORLDMALL http://home.earthlink.net/~usaworldmall

I want to make sure I understand PR transfer.
If I have a page with a PR of 6 and it has a bunch of text and only ONE
link, does it transfer the entire PR to the page it links to?  Or does some
PR get left behind on the original page.