andrewshim - 4:04 am on Jul 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

I don't mind being beaten by relevant sites but this is ridiculous.

In my category, there's one page that ranks #4 about a "magical" chain letter where you just need to put 5 bucks in an evelope, send it to someone and you will receive a hundred other envelopes each containing similar amounts.

I did do a comparison between my site and the #1 site in my category using Alexa (yeah... i know that's not the best tool to do a comparison). I noticed that my site seems to get far more traffic than the #1 site even though I'm on page #3. BTW... the #1 site is hand-coded - CANNOT BE MOVED!

I can only deduce that people are smart enough to know that the site in question is just cloaking all his affiliate links. So do I really care about ranking well in Yahoo!? Yes and no...

Yes because I still want to be found...
No because if the #1 site is hand-coded, there's nothing I can do about it.

I just gotta find ways NOT to depend on SE's.