MikeNoLastName - 11:13 pm on May 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

"There are around 40 outbound links with one line description text each,"

Typically should be BAD, however:

"80+ internal links, file size 39 K, since 1997 or 1998. "

All these appear to be pluses from what I've been seeing. I'm wondering if it is a factor of the ratio of internal vs outgoing links? in your case you have twice as many internal as ext. Also the fact that it is over 7 years old may just exclude it altogether.

Also on an unrelated observation.

They seem to have done something about EXACT matches on titles! say I have a page entitled: a b c d e f g
If I search on "a b c d" (no quotes) I come up first. If I type "a b c d f g" or "f g c d a b" (no quotes) I come up on the first page somewhere, but if I search for the whole title exactly "a b c d e f g" (quotes OR no quotes) I'm nowhere in the first 10 pages! More scraper site pegging? Possibly.