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Jay G. Says:

I read a lot about how you should link your site with others of similar content. Of course we should all do this, not only because it is good for our site visitor, but it seems like it would make sense to the search engines.

I do have one question though…if it’s all about related content…how does DMOZ have such a high pagerank? And Yahoo? They are all scattered…linking to pages having little to do with one another and vice-versa. I know that shear volume counts, but there are many sites, such as general directories that have very high pagerank. Doesn’t make much sense to me.

Here is my theory…forget all about the algorithms for a minute. I think pagerank and good search engine results are achieved simply by how many times the search engine visits your site. Seems simple, but think about it. If you are linked to by many sites with low pagerank, you will be scanned by the search engines. You may not be scanned deeply and you may not be visited often, therefore giving you a low pagerank. If you are linked to by many sites with high pagerank, you will be scanned much more frequently and more deeply, giving you a higher pagerank.

So I think the volume of sites that link to you matters as well as the pagerank of the site. Fewer sites with higher pagerank would equal many sites with lower pagerank.

Perhaps I am way off, but from my observance over the years, this is the simplest way to figure it out, since none of us really “know.” I do love reading all of the crazy theories though.

Last example….I was just analyzing a motorcycle related website with a pagerank of 7. There are tons of links going to it…the majority from real estate websites, cooking websites, etc…what does that say about relevancy?

Makes you think…

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