Miamacs - 6:59 pm on Mar 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

Sorry but no time to write another lengthly post.

I agree with you, I think we're just using different terms.

I'd say Google doesn't monitor everything to the same extent. In other words, if a page ranks well for something in the travel sector, that means 10-50x as much trust and link power than if it did so for some generic food phrase.

And once you try to jump from the top of a high pole to another, so that you could stand on two feet, the other will sink as soon as you set your toe on it.

There're quite accurate indications on what phrases are monitored closely, for these you have unusually high trust thresholds to clear before your pages show in the index. ( you've seen it before... showing results 1-97 of 98.000.000 )

That's why I said, this affects authority sites the most, although I have no data on non-authority sites. An authority site would have signals for its theme that are very, very strong.

I've recently done... no make that I'm currenlty doing some tests on to what extent anchor text decides the filtering of pages, that steer away from what they're trusted for. So far I've added a single link with a less generic anchor to the homepage of a quite old site. This move made the homepage jump for the phrase of course, but it also pulled out the subpages from a long time penalty. These subpages have no links to them apart from each other and the homepage, that distributes all incoming parameters.

Seems that while the homepage had very... very high scores for a single theme, the old-timer navigation saying "news" kept that page in the penalty box. The old relevance of the homepage could not be combined with this word. But now, the homepage got a link for something it already had in its title and body, which could be combined with it. And out the page came, with some phrases ranking number one. Nothing competitive though.

I'll be interested in how this turns out all in all, it's interesting to see the algo in motion.