Goodbye PR, Hello TSPR

[glengara]

G is in the process of dropping Page(the man) Rank in favour of Topic Sensitive Page(the thing) Rank, a quantum leap in search relevance and something many of us have been urging G should do.

The object of both Hilltop and Localrank is to determine TSPR, Hilltop through off-page factors, Localrank through on-page factors, and an amalgamation/combination of both, would work best.

The starting step for both is a search query, and CIRCA, the Applied Semantics methodology will be used to return the initial "corpus" of relevant documents both need to determine TSPR.

The mystery remains why we have all been invited to watch this slow, painful, and at times ludicrous transformation.

All strictly IMO, of course ;-)

[glengara]

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This is my "best case" scenario for what's been going on the last few months, such topsy-turvy behaviour must presage something momentous....... but G may very well just be broken ;-)

[kaled]

I believe it started as long as ago as summer 2003 or even sooner. I posted my thoughts at the time but no one seemed to agree.

Kaled.

[taxpod]

I don't know if nobody agreed so much as nobody had anything to add. I'm as baffled as anybody which is essentially a no-change for me but when others have some evidence of what exactly is going on, I'll be ready to read about it!

[Chicken Juggler]

Page rank still exists. You can't get it from the toolbar but it does exist. It has nothing to do with topic or theme. If it did then why can a site that Google has decided is an authority site rank well any where it likes. If you have such a site change your title and watch your site rank in a SERP it has no business in. If you have a bunch of good backlinks talking about red widgets you can change your title to tax return help and you will rank there if your site has enough PR. All you got to do is get some backlinks from respectable websites. It is best if it is a text link in the middle of a paragraph.

[Nikke]

In other words. Blogs are in.

Blogs, where "real people" (that is non-SEOs) talk about things, and link to things they like on sites they like, while discussing the subject (of the site they are linking to).