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#1 result with 0% keyword density?

Perplexing to say the least...

         

300m

11:22 am on Dec 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Here is the situation. For a highly competitive term , The #1 spot is driving me nuts. There is Zero Keyword density and you would think that there would have to be some. BL is about the norm, nothing odd, nothing odd. This is not an athority site, its actually an affiliate site. The Pr(which i understand makes no difference) is only like a PR3.

This site popped up during Jagger 1 and 2 and holds good rankings on other keywords that are relevant, but there is no mention of the keyword. (this is not a subpage, it is the same page every time.).

Interestingly enough, jagger 3 dropped it completley from the top 10 for all of the keywords except for the term it actually seemed to be targeting, it was ranked at 10 at that point, then dropped to page 2 etc....

Since this little index size increase, it is back for some of these keywords. I have no problem not being number one, provided that it is a site that clearly deserves to be there and I really doubt this page should be there.

I really am not good at determining if this is some kind of spam site or BH page. I suspect it is, but I have been reluctant to report it because I would not like to have that happen to me if i worked hard to get there.

When it comes to a spam site, outside of hidden text, ky stuffing an the basic spam flags, is there anyting else that I should be looking for? Like a script in the code?

Like I said, i do not mind someone having the #1 spot provided that they are playing fair, but something is telling me this is something else.

Normally the number one page flips between my site and a competitor.

Any kind of advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

I almost beleive it is some werid J1 or J2 rollback of sorts because I am starting to see the directories, news sites, and this page again.

tedster

5:03 am on Dec 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



It's possible that there is link influence you cannot see (you know how anaemic the Google link: operator is.) Have you explored the site with [siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com...] You may find some legitimate assets for the page that Google isn't revealing.

But then again, the page may be cloaked. If they are doing it well, you will probably not be able to detect it.

spaceylacie

5:26 am on Dec 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Latent Semantic Indexing. That's what a #1 listing with 0% keyword density is called. LSI... it's still being worked on as you can see.

texasville

5:35 am on Dec 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Sticky me the site. I love tracking spam.

tedster

5:44 am on Dec 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Latent Semantic Indexing

I thought about that possibility, too. A tilde search might turn up something interesting.