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No.1 in allintitle & allinanchor

but still 170 in SERPS - and I can't figure out why

         

reddevil

4:52 pm on Jun 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I have tried to optimise my home page for a very uncompetitive KW phrase:

eg. KW1 KW2 in KW3

I don't understand why Google only shows me as position 170 in SERPS considering the following information regarding lack of competition:-

When I do a search for KW1 KW2 in KW3 (or KW1 KW2 KW3) I get the following:

allintitle - 78 competing sites but my site is no.1
"allintitle" - only 3 competinbg sites and I am no.1
allinanchor - 4,500 sites and I am no.1
"allinanchor" - 1 site and that is me

My homepage has a PageRank of 4 and 7 backlinks (although there are approx 70 other links not showing). I don't think I have done anything illegal!

I have the KW phrase in my title tage, description, H1 tag, high on page and further down. No. of words is approx 500 on the page.

Can anybody guide me in the right direction?

BigDave

4:38 pm on Jul 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



No, I am not sure. Just as you can not be sure that it does what you think it does.

What I am telling you is that you need to understand the difference between what you *know* and what you *think*.

One thing that I do know is that the only time anyone ever mentions allinanchor anywhere on the web seems to be when it is not being predictive of what you will see in the SERPs. This thread topic seems to come up at least a couple of times a week.

Now ask yourself if it is *possible* that it really is only a results filter and that it might be ranking the results on something else and just filering the results by the allinanchor?

How can you complain that it is "broken" or that something is wrong" with it, when all Google claims it is is a restriction on the results that it shows you?

nuevojefe

7:16 pm on Jul 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I think my post clearly illustrates that I am aware of the differences between knowing and thinking.

Perhaps not though.

Who said it was broken?

As I said, from my "narrow" research it seems to correlate. That's certainly no clear indicator and should be taken with a grain of salt.

I would imagine that rarely in google does anything rank based on one factor alone.

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