[branica]

I think this is an interesting theory from WMW:

- The Google World
-- Google Search News
---- Google's 950 Penalty - Part 9
JoeSinkwitz - 1:15 pm on May 25, 2007 (utc -5)

Interesting, I was just wondering whether the location of the link was a factor in this...

Two separate tests I did showed that in one instance a site was EOSed for a phrase that was in the title, h1, alt, etc, but was not EOS for a synonym phrase that was not included in those on-page elements. In the second test, the reverse occured, with a site getting EOSed on a phrase that didn't occur in the elements, but was fine for the phrase that did occur in the elements. Everything else about these sites was held constant as possible, for control purposes.

I'm now conducting a test on location of links -- it has very disturbing implications for people that want to employ some SEO sniping. Footer links are not looking good right now, from the preliminary results.

Cygnus