valeyard - 9:35 pm on Feb 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

My thoughts so far:

- On page factor scoring has changed a lot. It seems that less importance is now given to the TITLE tag. Also the "implicit quotes" around search terms are not as strong. Together these mean that having "blue" in your TITLE and "widgets" somewhere on your page is pretty much as good as having "Blue Widgets" as your TITLE. Big mistake.

- Keywords in the URL are now pretty much irrelevant.

- Internal links count for a lot less. You need deep links from external sites more than ever.

- I still have this feeling that they've turned way up the weight given to anchor text on outgoing links. This could be one reason that blogspam and directories rank highly.

- No real evidence of LSI, though a combination of the above mistakes could result in the appearance of poorly implemented LSI.