Inbound Link Diversity and Google

DavidM · 2004-01-01, 05:42 PM

I had a thought. Sometimes people seem pretty picky about only seeing their links up among higher PR sites. Sometimes ignoring links from sites with lower PR. But wouldn't this be a way to detect possible spam? You would think that naturally a site with a truly high popularity would be linked to from a wide variety of urls at various PR levels.

Example:

50 PR6
100 PR5
500 PR4
1000 PR3
5000 PR2
7000 PR1
10000 PR0

This would seem natural as opposed to:

5,000 PR6
10,000 PR5
500 PR4
500 PR3
120 PR2
20 PR1
30 PR0

The second would seem an abnormality and point to manipulation. Would anyone venture to say that something like this is taken into account within the actual algorithm being used?
Any implications? The one I would suggest is that a more hands off approach (allowing for diversity) is probably safer for established sites.

2004-01-01, 05:42 PM	#1
DavidM If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 38	Inbound Link Diversity and Google I had a thought. Sometimes people seem pretty picky about only seeing their links up among higher PR sites. Sometimes ignoring links from sites with lower PR. But wouldn't this be a way to detect possible spam? You would think that naturally a site with a truly high popularity would be linked to from a wide variety of urls at various PR levels. Example: 50 PR6 100 PR5 500 PR4 1000 PR3 5000 PR2 7000 PR1 10000 PR0 This would seem natural as opposed to: 5,000 PR6 10,000 PR5 500 PR4 500 PR3 120 PR2 20 PR1 30 PR0 The second would seem an abnormality and point to manipulation. Would anyone venture to say that something like this is taken into account within the actual algorithm being used? Any implications? The one I would suggest is that a more hands off approach (allowing for diversity) is probably safer for established sites.