Hissingsid - 9:02 am on Jul 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

Hi,

Some changes in my niches. Dodgy site given #1 and site links still #1 but no site links.

GEO ISSUE
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FWIW I hypothesise that the UK geo issue is caused by an interaction of UK English semantics differences to US English semantics and a change in how anchor text in different parts of pages is weighted (including backlinks and internal links).

Others have suggested that it is important to have links from UK sites but from my observations I'm starting to think that it is currently more important to have links from sites outside the US, ie the balance of the weight of your backlinks should be from non US sites judging by the sites I've looked at that are #1 in UK. I would be interested to hear if others see this pattern.

Also, I have not collected data on this but get the feeling that, as far as the UK filter goes, single links from many sites seems to be better than many links, run of site, from a few sites.

Cheers

Sid