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Three Things SitePro Information Got WrongWriting from end to end of Cut Stamoulis likely Thursday, 20 of November , 2008 at 10:16 premier

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We've perfect, at manifold end, received the "request-for-a-link" email.

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Ask.com Looks Pretty, But It Advertises To The Wrong MarketWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Tuesday, 14 of August , 2007 at 8:20 am

I’ll talk more about what search engines do well and what they need improvement on overall later on. Right now I’d like to focus on Ask.

Ask has done a good job of simplifying itself. They seem to know what search is all about while everyone else is just guessing. I’m glad Ask.com dropped Jeeves. He was old, worn out, and never really provided good feedback anyway. The newfound “let’s follow Google to a simpler search page look” has also seemed to work for Ask. And I like what they’ve done with their SERPs. They’re attractive, aesthetic, organized well, provide useful features, and look nice. What I can’t speak to just yet, because I don’t use Ask enough to be able to give an honest appraisal (I still use Google a lot), is whether their claims to return the best results is true or not. Some people I respect say they do, but if that is true then why does Ask still hover around the 1% market share range?

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Question: I have recently launched a new site and got it a few authoritative links. For my search queries related to my brand Google is ranking an internal page instead of the home page. Why?

Answer: When a site is new and has few inbound links the PageRank computations tend to be rough estimations. It is common for a page linked to sitewide, like an about us page, to outrank the homepage until they better understand the internal site structure and PageRank flow.

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Posted by randfish

Brandon Hopkins, who runs a blog on search & webmastering, emailed me earlier this week to ask for my opinion on an article of his. Here’s what I wrote back:

I doubt you’ve got a shot at Digg-bait; it’s too SEO focused and will get buried instantly. I’m not sure I’d even submit it as the Digg folks might give your account a bad association

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