Oliver_Henniges - 11:10 am on Apr 18, 2009 (gmt 0)

> Saying that a keyword domain is blackhat is applying that label a bit too freely, I'd say.

Sure. But in the example I gave that guy was interlinking thousands of keyword-domains, which I'd definitely call blackhat.

> having the keyword in the domain name still gives a relevance boost. That particular dial (how much boost) gets dialed up and dialed down in the algo all the time.

This is what I mean. I'm wondering why and how long that guy passed thru the algo with this. From time to time some very primitive optimization-methods receive an inappropriate wheight for a couple of months. This "UP" of keyword-in-domain as a ranking factor is suspicious. Keyword in link-anchor-text, title and description respectively. All fairly primitive.

Aren't we told to expect the dawning of the semantic web?