Determining Link Context: Topic and Themes

No doubt a great tool, this will help anyone focus on the theme of their site, already useful for me.

Having said that www.yahoo.com is rather amusing.

Love the link I have used it with severeal site already and revamping has begun. Thanks Brett!!!!
NFFC why find yahoo amusing did you run it through this program?

So, what I'm getting now with all of this, is that we have to carefully consider the link location page of those sites we court for links. That "themes" is actually much more narrow in this context than in regular usage of the word. It's down to almost exact word matching of the linking page title and description.

The next question lies in those scientific numbers, how well does this method understand which words are in the same theme to the user's search string. That is that "jewelry" and "bracelet", while not an exact word match to each other are in fact part of the same theme.

If everyone throws my link on a page they name, "links", however well we are matched themeatically to the actual site overall, unless that page can, in its other page title words and description, overcome the presence of the word "links", then that link could hurt me more than help me and I should just keep looking. That sounds quite severe but if I'm starting to get the fallout of your discovery, I think that's the plan.

thewebguy,

Yes just run www.yahoo.com through the program and see what yahoo is known for. A result of all those "exit if under 18" links which really shows the accuracy of the tool.

I just ran it for Yahoo also..thats funny.
How long for the SE to pick up your theme?

Different for each one. Inktomi picked up on ours last fall and delivered quality keyword referrals since then. Not a killer ranking in the bunch, but a broader range of kw's.

Alta picked it up immediatly. No questions asked. The problem with Alta, is it picked up the wrong one. To this day, search engine world pulls from exotic car engine keywords.

I ran the topic report on one of my sites and nailed it on the head. but site is not even ranked?
I then I ran it for top sites and not even close to theme? I dont understand that?

That one is using Alta. There is limited evidence that linkage plays a huge roll in Alta. At best it is 1-5% of the algo.

If you have a similar tool, (and you will have soon), we are trying the same with Inktomi - which is leading to breath taking results.

I am taling about AV. Ran the top site in AV for my search word and seems off the theme?
Also would it effect if you have like 50 domian names and make sites for them all and link them all together (with a 1pix hidden link) would this help with links and themes shouldnt it?

Edited by: thewebguy

The topic tool is more about links back to your site. It is just a part of the theme algo, but does represent how easy it is for engines to do.

Hi all. My first post here.

"That "themes" is actually much more narrow in this context than in regular usage of the word. It's down to almost exact word matching of the linking page title and description."

It is important to remember that this tool is only an example of what can be done with limited information. The engines have access to more than just the title of sites that link to you. They know the linked text itself and the words near the link. With this additional information their relationships can be much more complex. Or maybe simpler.

Let's say you have a site that is very general in nature (i.e., a search engine/directory) and you want to implement themes for SEO. Would it be beneficial to break up your site into multiple subdomains? For example, lets say I own search.com (Wouldn' that be nice!)

If I wanted to be focused and target themes, would the search engines indexing my site give me credit if I created sites like:

cars.search.com
movies.search.com
shirts.search.com

Do the search engines think these are totally unqiue websites in and of themselves, or do they realize they are all a part of search.com? Do you think it is beneficial, in the first place, to create these type off subdomains off of your main website? What are the advantages/disadvantages?

I look forward to your reply.

>Do the search engines think these are totally unqiue websites in and of themselves

yes. overall, it is to your advantage to used third level domains.

Ya, they'll see thrid level subdomains as unique. Certainly.