followgreg - 2:10 pm on Oct 6, 2007 (gmt 0)

I am still totally baffle at some websites that continue to keep their rankings in some industries.

There are websites now ranking for mid-competitive keywords based on factors definetely originating from a very dark place.
In notable industry I closely watch for a long time, backlinks from pharmacy type of sites (homepage links!) rank you amongs authorities.

This is really looking for trouble with spammers and text link buyers all over the place.

The plural results in our industry are the worst ever, making sense one time out of 5 or 10. Except for so called authorities eventually.

The geolocation amazes me. Regular national/internaltional US sites replaced by foreign sites on Google.com but still ranking on some other Google tld's....

I don't understand their geo location procedure.
A website that says "whatever country" widget with domain registration in "whatever country" is logically less likely to to interest US users.

At the same time, textlink buyers live in paradise, their rank exactly where they have chosen to. I really feel like I've wasted my time reported all type of scams and textlinks-only rankings.

Blogs are still king of the hill. I don't get this one either. From where I stand 99% of blogs are as good as geocities personal pages used to be. Blogrolls and any other link schemes such as creating multiple domains or simply having a blog on a separate domain bump all sites in the top 20/30.
Any cr.p looks like good Google food as long as it is fresh, whatever the relevancy, whatever even the Language...

Half of the web seems to be gone supplemental. No improvements whatsoever in textlink hunting and certainly not irrelevant backlink schemes.

Yet not all searches are affected like for the past 3-4 weeks. Quality has downgraded only on not so competitive searches.

To tell the exact reality: I find Google SERP's to look like Live.com. Not sure if Google knows what it means but to me Google has complicated their algorithm so much that it filters all but cheap promotion on usually unoticeable websites.

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