PhattusCattus - 3:18 am on Jan 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

annej, did some more testing...although i was skeptical of this, there does seem to be a regional factor...my site is located in a latin american country...i searched using a keyword fairly unique to a page in my site, using the google.com.mx site.

the keyword is included in the page title, anchor text linking to the page, headlines, etc. and the page came up #1.

I then searched for an exact phrase match, WHICH OCCURS ON THE SAME PAGE. This phrase is also in the anchor text, page title and headlines, together with the keyword i search for first. The result? Dead last.

When i search for these keywords on google english i am consistly at the bottom of results.

i am not sure what this means except that this is the most b-s penalty ever. why on earch would the same page rank #1 and dead last, when searching for text that appears in the title? makes zero sense.