Comments on: Pixelheadonline SERPs Results

By: Pixelhead

Pixelhead — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:18:37 +0000

Wow 800,000, thats pretty nice…congrats…yea you just never know what Google is going to pick up or isn’t. You must be doing something right though.

By: John

John — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:51:14 +0000

There seems to be a tipping point for page addition with or without external linking. I have a site that is just short of the 800,000 pages for the site: command which was started last year and just keeps on growing. Now I wish I could say I have had the same success with every site but that would be untrue. It is not the site linked from here as it would be foolish to publish the URL but I can flash the URL to pixelhead if he wants to verify it. The real question is what marks this site out from the failures.

By: Pixelhead

Pixelhead — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:48:14 +0000

Forrest, I may have 3X as many pages, but many of those pages are in the directory. I am sure if you added a directory to your site, you would have many more. Your pages are so much higher in quality though, and that is far more important. Thanks for the tip about sites that cloak, I had never heard that before.
Karlshamn, that does seem to be the case. Google really can’t give everyone a high PR, otherwise it would not be as valuable. The more scarce the more value.

Rome, keep at it, you’ll get there.

By: Forrest

Forrest — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:22:55 +0000

I haven’t noticed this, myself. My pages using a site: search seem to have fallen by about 20, but I’ve nofollowed my tag cloud, and recently blocked a number of other pages ( login, internal search results, other unimportant, largely duplicate ones ) so I could have actually done better than the numbers suggest.

The cached link in the serps can help with sites that cloak. Experts Exchange is a good example: it’s a forum where people ask obscure IT questions, which are almost always answered correctly, and often by somebody from the company who wrote the software in question. Naturally, they rank fairly well, probably getting a lot of organic links. Trouble is, you need to pay for a membership to get the answer; click the normal serp link and you’ll be taken to a page with the question, but the answer(s) blanked out. But they give Google the answers for free … meaning anyone can get them through the cached page. The same used to be true of the New York Times, and probably any number of other sites.

Back to link building, there’s a perception that getting too many too quickly raises a red flag. But Google doesn’t know when you actually got the links; they know when they discovered them. Looking at when the cached date changes on some of the more important pages you might want a link from might help a person “time the lights.”

Congratulations, though! You have about 3x as many pages as I do, by Google’s count.

By: Karlshamn

Karlshamn — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:43:48 +0000

I agree more pages are indexed now compared to one year ago. However many of the indexed pages show decreased pagerank with the same amount of inbound links, compared to one year ago.