This perplexes me...can anyone help?

allintext: and the significance

[Becky]

Hello all. I have a PR6 website which is a little higher than most in my industry and I currently have 95 backlinks to highly relevant sites. I am not an expert at SEO, and haven't used any tricks to inflate my rankings. The keyword density for my main keywords is around 5% which is in-between the density that the top ranking sites have.

Since this dance started I have been on page 1 for all of my keywords on the Google european servers (.de, .fr, etc.). On the .com servers I am ranked anywhere from 50-120.

Here is where I am confused. When I go into G.com and add allintext: prior to my keyword, I show up on the first page again for all of my keywords. I realize that I have probably been caught in some sort of filter, but I don't understand why.

Can anyone tell me what possible tweaks can be made to my site to move it back up into the first page?

Any help at all would be appreciated...I'm pulling my hair out over here:)

[Bayou_Gal]

Since this dance started I have been on page 1 for all of my keywords on the Google european servers (.de, .fr, etc.). On the .com servers I am ranked anywhere from 50-120.

Becky, I am in exactly the same boat. I also find it perplexing that my site is somehow relevant enough to appear on page one of the European servers, but does not show up at all on the .com ones. My site is written only in English, and is useful only to people in the US and Canada. Why it is even relevant at all on foreign searches is a mystery to me.

If you ever figure it out, I'd really like to know too.

[Becky]

Bayou_Gal

I'll certainly let you know if I do. I posted this same question in a few of the other forums and I didn't really get an answer, but the advice that I did get was to sit tight for another week or so and not make any drastic changes.

Other forums members believe that I will move back up into my current positions within the next week or so.

[oodlum]

allintext simply ranks sites according to occurrences of the KW on a page, removing dozens of other factors that contribute to the regular SERPs.

In other words, a very simplified version of the Google algo basically involving KW density and PR.

Other advanced operators do the same thing for link text, page title, URL.

Since Florida you can be PR8, rank #1 for allintext, allintitle, allinanchor and allinurl (not to mention KW1 KW2 +A) and still be nowhere to be found in the regular results.

[steveb]

The advanced functions all supposedly do something, but they certainly aren't doing that now. Sites with only one instance of a word on a page can rank highly for allintext now. I wouldn't pay attention to it, at least in terms of doing anything to change anything.