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My home page is ranked very high for "CommonVerb" there is no occurance of the common verb anywhere in the text of my site.
It does occur in my domain name though and thus is in a lot of my links. The thing that suprised me is that it is not seperated in my domain name from the noun at all and it still recognized it as an important keyword for the page.
so its as follows:
my domain is "RandomnameCommonVerb.com"
I rank high ( #3 SERP ) for "CommonVerb"
only thing on page with "CommonVerb" is the links
none of the visible text or meta contains an occurance of "CommonVerb"
Some folks have supposed that MSN relies much more heavily on page content and less on links to determine search engine results. I don't agree much.
If you search for common "Google-bombed" terms and phrases (you know, Worst Something Ever and Miserable Something) you get results pretty similar to Google and Yahoo. That's clearly not from on-page content.
Why could this be?
I don't have them in any links, text, meta tags, etc.
Looking thru my access logs, I found somebody MSN'ed in with the keywords: naked teens photo
Yup! just like that. My site is about UFOs. No porn, nothing like it.
The page itself lists some Discredited sightings.
All 3 words are there, separately, but in that order so MSN picked up on it.
I hope I don't get a lot of pedophiles or some morality types beating up on me.
'Naked' refers to space aliens without their special suits.
'Teens photo' is about a bogus UFO photograph.
I tried Google and Yahoo for the same exact words in order (spaces but no quotes)
It looks like G and Y don't rate my site well for porn, nowhere to be seen.
MSN has me above the middle of their first page!
- Larry
