theBear - 6:04 pm on Jul 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

Seo1,

Please note I said value add, not value, two entirely different things.

In fact serp placement does not actually measure either value or value add.

Anything placed at locations one through three normally gets visited by close to 100% of searchers.

Out there somewhere is the top to bottom results from a study done using IIRC Google serps.

I can think of reasons why a site might add 100,000 posts to a forum in one day that would go against "history" but still be perfectly legit. Try unblocking a forum that was previously closed or changing out forum software by nuking the old directory and installing the new stuff in a new directory with old reformatted data.

We are trying to do black box analysis of what is not only a complex system, but one with intermittent errors in its processing. As the old IBM manuals say results may be unpredictable.