How are backlinks calculated?

Mattinblack · 2006-01-11, 06:05 AM

I asked my Guru this question - his response (from a $100K-£65K job in SEO) was in short 'Fuck Knows'. His opinion is that Google are still playing with it and until they stop tinkering for a while nobody can figure it out. Google has such a large amount of data that any general update they do takes *weeks* to trickle through all the sites on their servers and when they are 'tinkering' frequently they can re-update a part of the data before the original update has finished running on all their machines. A week or so ago I had two sites links dissapear entirely for 48 hours, re-appear cut in half and then change again to maybe 75% of their former strength. Thank God for MSN and Yahoo.

Google may be popular with surfers but it is fast becoming unpopular with site owners. I personally am seriously considering forgetting about google entirely and not even submitting. It seems to take up more and more of my time every week.

2006-01-11, 06:05 AM	#8
Mattinblack Asleep at the switch? I wasn't asleep, I was drunk Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: London UK in a house share with three 28 yr old girls...perv perv Posts: 215	I asked my Guru this question - his response (from a $100K-£65K job in SEO) was in short 'Fuck Knows'. His opinion is that Google are still playing with it and until they stop tinkering for a while nobody can figure it out. Google has such a large amount of data that any general update they do takes weeks to trickle through all the sites on their servers and when they are 'tinkering' frequently they can re-update a part of the data before the original update has finished running on all their machines. A week or so ago I had two sites links dissapear entirely for 48 hours, re-appear cut in half and then change again to maybe 75% of their former strength. Thank God for MSN and Yahoo. Google may be popular with surfers but it is fast becoming unpopular with site owners. I personally am seriously considering forgetting about google entirely and not even submitting. It seems to take up more and more of my time every week. __________________ Mattinblack - <a href="http://pornlinks.kwikfire.com">PornLinks</a> - <a href="http://strange-attractor.kwikfire.com">Strange Attractor</a> - <a href="pnav.kwikfire.com">PORNavigator</a> - <a href="http://ukescort.kwikfire.com/">Fem Escorts</a> - <a href="http://kwikfire.com/">Hosting</a> Last edited by Mattinblack; 2006-01-11 at 06:10 AM..