Weight of keywords in inbound link text increased?

[Pegasus]

I've improved very slightly for most of my main keywords, but for "web design", which is a huge term, I've now shot up the list to #<snip>.

Up until recently, my site name was "(Name) Web Design Resources", so, naturally, "web design" appears in the link text of most of the links to my site.

Is it possible that the weight of inbound link text is now much greater?

Has anyone else found this to be the case - where they've improved greatly for terms that are in the name/url of their site? I'd be interested to know.

I guess if Google is devaluing Pagerank, something's gotta increase in value to make up. :)

[edited by: ciml at 8:48 pm (utc) on June 19, 2003]

[ciml]

Pegasus, I wonder if it is link text matters more as such, or whether link text from lots of low PR pages matters more than in the past? This seems to have been a trend with Google.

In your case, perhaps you have lots of small sites linking to you, rather than a few high PR sites?

[Marcia]

Pegasus, are your inbound links coming from individual sites one each, or are there there many inbound links from few sites?

[Pegasus]

I have 200 backlinks (under the new Google system), but most of my backlinks are from pages with PR5-6, which has given me a PR of 7.

I don't have any links from PR8 pages, and less than 10 links from PR7 pages.

I only have one link from the vast majority of those sites.

[ciml]

Pegasus, I think that people could learn a lot from your two posts in this thread.