Hissingsid - 10:39 am on Apr 29, 2008 (gmt 0)

I would imagine, though, that anyone with some experience with Google's paid link attack algorithms will see the same patterns emerging for their internal link devaluations.

I thought you said you wanted paying for half the man hours for this ;)

I'm pretty sure that this has combined with the UK geo filter to produce some interesting results.

For example one site was #1, on both .co.uk and .com, for a while. Two things noted in analysis were:

1. They had a javascript driven navigation that dropped down links in a clam shell menu style. They were therefore able to control the internal link structure and anchor text in a way which I guess was benefiting them.

2. Lots of links exchanged from their UK site with somewhat topic relevant US sites.

They are now still #1 on .com but have dropped to #4 on .co.uk. It looks like their geo weight has been tipped towards the US. Perhaps reduction in internal link value coupled with a few more US links has tipped the balance.

Cheers

Sid