If every link is a vote, can a site only vote once?

[rudy0826]

I have always understood link popularity and page rank as a voting system. Explained as a sites popularity was determined by the number of linkes (votes) there are to that site. A vote from a higher pr site would count more than a vote from a lower pr site. Lately I have abandoned a phrase I ranked highly for another term, I asked some of the people linking to change the link title and I also changed it on the sites I had control of. Now I notice I am not ranking for either very well. Could it be that a site can only vote once for a keyword phrase?

[Patrick Taylor]

PageRank and key words/phrases are two different things. One incoming link is one "vote" but it can be a strong vote or a weak vote in PR terms, depending on the number of other links on the page with the link and its own PR. I'm not sure what you mean with "more than one vote" because you didn't mention any page linking many times to the same other page. This scenario would pass more PR to your page if the other links on the linking page stayed the same (one), but whether the ranking effect of the multiplied keyword anchor text in terms of benefit to your page would be positive or neutral I don't know... depends on the Google algo at any point in time, I would imagine.

<added>It is pages, not sites, that have PR</added>

[rudy0826]

what I am saying here is I have a keyword phrase linked to a site

linkpartner1.com : Old keyword phrase : google rank top 10
linkpartner2.com : Old keyword phrase : google rank top 10
linkpartner3.com : Old keyword phrase : google rank top 10

linkpartner1.com : New keyword phrase : no google rank
linkpartner2.com : New keyword phrase : no google rank
linkpartner3.com : New keyword phrase : no google rank

I have waited about a month for to see some results.

[rfgdxm1]

Only Google knows. It occurs to me from an algorithmic point of view, limiting the possible number of votes from any one site would make sense. A site with 100 links from 100 different sites likely is more important than a site which has all 100 links to it from a single site.

[pleeker]

I have waited about a month for to see some results.

No sure I completely understand the question about a site voting more than once, but it might be worth mentioning that your results will depend on

1. how often G is spidering and indexing the linkpartners,
2. the updating of backlinks in G's algo, and
3. the updating of PR in G's algo.

Ignore this message if I'm misunderstanding your question. My point is that there are a number of factors in play when your keyword targeting and anchor text from link partners changes.

[g1smd]

I sincerely hope that people who set up a 10 000 page site and link every page to their "real" domain don't get much, if any, credit for that.