Related websites...

Anybody have any idea

[atlrus]

Ok, here is the deal:

When you search Google, it shows you about 880 results and after that it says something like:

"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 884 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included"

When I check the "related:" for my website, one of them is a competitor of mine, which sits at the top of the search results for my main keyword.

At the same time my website is not in the search result for that keword, although I have plenty of incoming links with the right anchor text and PR6, way better than most of the websites showing for that keyword.

Does it mean that I have to compete with that website in order to be included in the search results?

[idoc]

I am not sure that anyone from G has ever come right out and said how exactly the related: search is figured. From what I have seen, sometimes the sites share common incoming or outgoing links or one of the sites actually links to the other. Maybe G using semantically related search results is a factor... I would probably check into whether the top site is linking to you in a frame, has a cached version of some of your pages or is redirecting some of their pages to your site for the bots via a redirect type script. It could be that you don't rank for your word against this site because your own original page is being seen as a duplicate. Or you may simply be tripping the Florida/Austin/Brandy filters that some argue don't exist. Maybe filter being tripped is an improved duplicate filter and both of the above are factors. But having said all that, if someone from G knows exacly for sure what related: means it would be a big help. Hint. Hint.

[atlrus]

Update: my website have just emerged in the serps...the funny thing is that my website shows in the related: of google AdWords...