martinibuster - 6:55 pm on Aug 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

For a while you could actually see the h=1 in the url but they hid that...

Specific to the H1 in the url string, that's an old wive's tale. A number of my spammy ass sites had that in there and I'm positive Yahoo hadn't hand coded that in there. lol

I'm well aware that Ink has always been out about hand tweaking serps. But I think it's a gross oversimplification to say that Yahoo hand tweaked the top five for hundreds of searches within this niche. I am not saying it's impossible. It's entirely possible.

What I am saying is that it makes more sense to automate the process by creating a batch of trusted sites, which would explain why I see one of these sites popping out in unrelated searches. That's an anomalie that happens within an automated process.