strange search results

unrelated results to a search

[telemecus]

Hi everyone,

Second posting, fairly new to all this.

Why is it that when you put a search term like exit into a SE it returns sites that have nothing to do with the subject? Can we say that it's because they have good SEOs working for them? I don't think so because the SEO is not providing useful traffic, nor is the SE providing useful results for that matter.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

[photon]

Sometimes web sites get paid by their advertisers for each page view they receive. So it doesn't matter if you actually buy anything; as long as they get you to their page, they make money.

[whoisgregg]

a search term like exit

If you're wondering about why G thinks that Disney.com is the most relevant site for the term exit, that can be easily explained. Many, many sites have a front-page "If you are offended" disclaimer with a choice between "Enter" and "Exit" at the bottom. The "enter" link goes inside and the "exit" link often times goes to Disney.com. (It's a bit of a joke, if you find something offensive on their site, you'll probably be less offended by disney's site.)

So G thinks that when people are looking for "exit" they must be looking for disney.com because, golly, look at all the sites who claim disney.com IS exit. Kind of a neat way of showing how inbound links and anchor text can actually determine the relevance for particular terms. :)

[telemecus]

ahahh, so it's the old outbound link factor again...?

[whoisgregg]

Actually, in this case, those links and terms are inbound to disney.com. An outbound link is all the links on the disney.com site that point to other sites.

If "you are what people say you are" then Disney is exit. :)

[telemecus]

you're right of course, i stand corrected

[TazMania]

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