SEO speculation on MSN and Google as a domain registrar |
SEO’s, who remain in a constant state of flux trying to figure out the SE algos, are sharing their speculations and findings on various SE messageobards regarding the new MSN search:
- inbound anchor text seems to be huge
- msn treats graphic links well
- freshness of the links (do they dare deploy temporal link analysis? - doubt it)
- on page seems to be looked at, but not as much as those fancy links
Meanwhile, Netcraft examines Google’s possible intentions as a domain registrar:
That would be consistent with Google’s indication that it will use its ICANN accreditation to “learn more about the Internet’s domain name system … While we have no plans to register domains at this time, we believe this information can help us increase the quality of our search results,” the company said in a statement. As a public company, Google is unlikely to publicly misstate its intentions, lest it face scrutiny from regulators and investors.
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I read about that as well. It is why I have a question in the article I just put up about Facts and Theories, could Google use the whois information to filter your sites out.
http://www.makeyougohmm.com/pivotblg/entry.php?id=1432
Do you think this is going to far? Does it really make for better search results on Google?
Comment by TanyaMartin — February 4, 2005 @ 1:55 pm PST
I think it makes sense that Google will explore using it to reset the Page Rank on owner changes. This could be problematic though if they do because if the content of a site doesn’t significantly change on owner neither should the relevancy in the search engines.
Comment by TDavid — February 4, 2005 @ 1:59 pm PST
I don’t think some page importance should drop when the whois info change. I think that they know their work, and will use this data just to flag spammers.
Comment by LeDeN — May 10, 2005 @ 8:05 pm PST