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My site has been fully spidered and is not brand new, the other site is absolutely 100% for sure NOT cloaked and by the nature of the site I would bet my life on the fact that no incoming links to any page on that site have anchor text "purple widgets" or are even from any sites that have anything to do with "purple widgets".
This is not a rant, I am just trying to figure out what I can possibly have missed. Another pr5 site of mine optimized in EXACTLY the same manner as this "purple widgets" page is currently #1 for a search term with 2,000,000+ results.
I have not been in this game that long so I can't compare to a a year ago or 2 years ago but as I go through my round of checking keywords and searching in general it is clear to me that google is currently serving up horribly inconsistent and in many cases laughably rediculous and totally irrelevant results.
ps: I have definately noticed a huge new trend of news articles appearing very high in google serps and in many many cases having absolutely 100% NOTHING to do with the search term other than a coincidental occurance of the words that make up the seacrh phrase, usually separated by many paragraphs of text. This recent adjustment of the algo to give a huge boost to anything google interprets as a news article is a total fiasco, at least in the keyword phrase universe I pay attention to. Spammers the world over are opening up "news" sites and posting "news" artcicles on them as you read this.
This is not a rant, I am just trying to figure out what I can possibly have missed. Another pr5 site of mine optimized in EXACTLY the same manner as this "purple widgets" page is currently #1 for a search term with 2,000,000+ results.
I have not been in this game that long so I can't compare to a a year ago or 2 years ago but as I go through my round of checking keywords and searching in general it is clear to me that google is currently serving up horribly inconsistent and in many cases laughably rediculous and totally irrelevant results.
Try allinanchor:purple widgets to see how your site and the other rank as far as incoming anchor text for the kw.
My use of "purple widgets" is also somewhat misleading, it would be more accurate to compare this to a site all about football with the word "tackle" on a page of links to common football terminology to outrank hundreds of fishing sites for the search term "fishing tackle". Purely on the strength of its pr5, which is itself based on the sites relevance to football topics, not fishing or fishing tackle topics.
This is an excellent example for anyone who thinks pr does not have a HUGE impact on where a page lands on the google serps. Don't kid yourself.
