My ESL web site is up tp #46 for "ESL" but stuck at #21 for "english as a second language" and up to #7 for "english second language".
I mentioned how my backlinks went from 226 to 184, possibly as a result of links.html type pages not passing pagerank. However they recently went up to 283. I don't know why exactly as I've been too busy to go looking for link partners (I have been exchanging links with people who contact me). There are also some new internal pages.
By the way, the reason I've been too busy to do the linking thing is the same reason I haven't been blogging much recently. As always it involves work, but more recently a dog bite on my nose!
Anyway, I recently let my forums get indexed because I want more anchor text. 500 or 600 pages have been indexed so far, but none of them have PR. Still that anchor text must be helping.
Posted by James Trotta at June 28, 2004 7:12 PMI feel so sorry about the dog acciden, hope you have fully recovered.
About the links page, before the last update, no links.xxx were displayed as back links. But after the recent update, they start showing again, but not sure if they pass PR, Maybe Google want to confuse the webmasteres or thought the rule was too aggressive and changed back.
Because of the links.xxx changes, most webmasters are quite happy with the last update :-)
Posted by: KL at June 29, 2004 12:01 PMI wouldn't be surprised if Google was experimenting. I don't think it would be bad if only content pages passed PR. At the moment PR is seriously flawed because of indiscriminate link exchanges.
Posted by: James Trotta at July 3, 2004 10:50 AMOh and my nose is getting better...
Posted by: James Trotta at July 3, 2004 10:51 AMTrade links with seo-search-engine-ranking.com
http://www.seo-search-engine-ranking.com/ad_network_222.php