Google's strangely successful SEO

[tartle]

Has anyone commented on Google’s unusual SEO?

Go to google.com (PR 11?)
Click on Images and it takes you to [google.com...] (PR 5)
Click back to Web and it takes you to [google.com...] (PR 7)
...which is the same page as google.com

Go to images.google.com (PR 9)
Click on Web and it takes you to [images.google.com...] (PR 0)
...which is the same page as google.com

Google has indexed about 100 versions of it's base google.com page under various URLs
(search on "Advanced Search" "Preferences" "Language Tools" "Advertising Programs - Business Solutions - About Google" -reviews site:google.com)

I realize that not too many people search in Google for "Google" but the fact is Google has very few high pagerank prominent back links to the base URL. At least compared with Yahoo, which has a lot of redirects back to it's base URL.

And that is the other weird thing. Yahoo (PR 9) has a huge number of incoming links, and a lot less temporal outbound links on the main page than nytimes.com (PR 10)

Not that I am complaining.

[tedster]

Good observations -- from using Yahoo Site Explorer, I see Yahoo with 164 million IBLs sitewide and NTY with maybe a tenth of that. I would assume the the Times many VERY high quality links on high PR pages and right in the content section of the page. PR is about a lot more than just massive numbers.

The Google Home page thing is really interesting. I sure wouldn't suggest that approach to any client of mine.

[edited by: tedster at 10:27 pm (utc) on April 23, 2006]

[claus]

I think the PR 11 is a manual thing.. and I suspect that Yahoo being PR9 is also manual. (if true, didn't check as I don't look at PR at all)

But, I might be wrong.. officially all that stuff is a fully automated process.

[seanpecor]

I had this new ampliphier made, look at the dial...most amps only go to 10, this one goes to "11". so when the other band has gone to "10", we can go to "11"!

Did you think that maybe they just put a different dial, that says "11"? You could just as easily put a dial that says "10". It would be the same, right?

Yea, but ours goes to "11"!

:)

Sean

[ZoltanTheBold]

It's all smoke and mirrors anyway. They can do what they like. Although shouldn't they be penalized for duplicate content? I'd report it as possible spam. lol

[g1smd]

Then try that on each of the datacentres using direct IP access, and see that each of those has a whole load of pages indexed too, and multiple URLs for some pages.

That is, take what you have reported above and now multiply it by 80.

[seochristine]

Hi

"http://www.google.com/"
PR-10
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,600,000 linking to [google.com...]

"http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&lr= "
PR-8
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,200 linking to [google.com...]

"http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en"
PR-7
Results 1 - 10 of about 32,000 linking to [google.com...]

"http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8"
PR-0
Your search - link:http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8 - did not match any documents.
Have noticed this for long but couldn't actually come to a proper conclusion on this. How do u manage this?

[Simsi]

I had this new ampliphier made, look at the dial...most amps only go to 10, this one goes to "11". so when the other band has gone to "10", we can go to "11"!
Did you think that maybe they just put a different dial, that says "11"? You could just as easily put a dial that says "10". It would be the same, right?

Yea, but ours goes to "11"!

Great film...but remembering it word for word? ;)