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Why is this site number 1?

         

hotelmarketing

4:16 pm on Feb 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



After Google's January index, the listing below took the number one position for <city state> hotel.

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Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'. [Microsoft][ODBC
Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified. ...
www.<edit>.com/dpp/ PropertyPage.asp?- 1k - Cached - Similar pages

The placement confuses me for two reasons. First, the hotel is located in <another city> and the text on the cached page is:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified

/dpp/PropertyPage.asp, line 15

It is driving me crazy trying to figure out why this hotel appears in the SERPs for <city state> hotel. Can anyone lead me back to normalacy?

[edited by: rcjordan at 4:23 pm (utc) on Feb. 13, 2003]
[edit reason] no site specifics, please [/edit]

ciml

5:39 pm on Feb 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Welcome to WebmasterWorld, hotelmarketing.

It just looks like a temporary database problem, it'll probably be fixed at the next update or even beforehand due to a Fresh listing.

The most likely reason for that page ranking well is the emphasis that Google places on PageRank and link text. This is a useful feature, for example Google comes top for search engine, even though the word engine isn't in their home page.