annej - 11:36 pm on Feb 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

I find the idea that Google may be looking at related phrases in a cluster of pages has interesting possibilities.

Assuming pages in a single directory are somewhat related and maybe interlinked, that would -- or can -- fit MHes's definition of a "cluster of pages".

In the case where a good inbound link appeared to bring back one of my contents pages within a couple of days I also got back 3 pages that were linked from that contents page. But one page remains missing.

I'm thinking the missing page had too many other "good" phrase matches so the return of the Contents page wasn't enough.

In another section of my site the whole topic is gone, contents page and article pages. Two other sections of my site just have one or two pages missing and there seems to be no association with the contents pages.