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10 commentsMonday, July 7, 2008

Google Counts First Link, Not Second, Says SEO

Never argue with the data

10 Comments

By Irvan (WPN reader) - Sat, 03/07/2009 - 13:52

thanks

I don't know about this before. thanks

By Internet Marketing Indonesia (WPN reader) - Mon, 11/10/2008 - 03:03

thanks for your article.

thanks for your article. Very help me. I will more like visit to webpronews site. :) Fantastic

By Internet Marketing Indonesia (WPN reader) - Mon, 11/10/2008 - 03:02

thanks for your article.

thanks for your article. Very help me. I will more like visit to webpronews site. :) Fantastic

By seo questions (WPN reader) - Wed, 08/06/2008 - 07:02

great post

One of your best posts about seo and the questions that arise.

By seochallenge (WPN reader) - Tue, 07/22/2008 - 21:58

need to test in vaccum

A lot of these tests can be picked apart , and though appearing water tight , have hidden flaws in them , here is a quote from Googe faq

"Why is Googlebot downloading information from our "secret" web server?

It's almost impossible to keep a web server secret by not publishing any links to it. As soon as someone follows a link from your "secret" server to another web server, your "secret" URL may appear in the referrer tag and can be stored and published by the other web server in its referrer log. So, if there's a link to your "secret" web server or page on the web anywhere, it's likely that Googlebot and other web crawlers will find it."

Not sayiing this is the case , just that it may be overlooked

By Anders (WPN reader) - Tue, 07/08/2008 - 12:46

The first link...

A Costa Rican SEO wizz tought me this abott a year ago, and how vital it is that the first link is your html sitemap, this is one easy way to get your entire site crawled everytime...

Anders

By Clint Dixon (WPN reader) - Tue, 07/08/2008 - 10:10

1stLinkScored

Might have had some credibility if it were not for the fact that the server is what is crawled and not individual pages.

Search spiders crawl servers and happen to follow links on pages on the server.

Unless these were the only two pages on the server the test is flawed.

Besides Google counts more than links (especially internal) when scoring for SEO Serp.

By EWard (WPN reader) - Tue, 07/08/2008 - 01:42

Wrote about it in 2003

If we are going to get picky, I described this in LinkAlert! back in '03. :)

By Sam I Am (WPN reader) - Mon, 07/07/2008 - 19:39

One Link Rule

I saw this referenced at http://www.SubliminalMessages.Com and find it hard to believe that G would only index the first link.

That just don't make no sense.

By Branko (WPN reader) - Mon, 07/07/2008 - 14:15

Hey

Hi David

Thanks for covering my post. Just one remark that I think needs to be made: the phenomenon was first reported by Michael VanDerMar on SEO Refugee forum in January 2007 and then in his blog post. Rand came later.

Some people are just in front of everyone else. :)

Regards,

Branko