On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:41:24 -0000, DavidD
wrote:


It's too late, and I'm too tired, to go into details but I can assure
you that this is how Google sets the rankings.

No it is not, how would google know how many hits a site has had?


David, you are quite right. I've just re-read the article about this and
my memory was faulty. What Google checks out is the number of references
to the site's URL on the net - other sites, newsgroups etc. This is how
they judge the "popularity" of the site, and is why various dodges are
used to get multiple references to a URL passed around. Apparently there
are people making a good living just boosting sites up the list for their
owners.

Arthur

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:45:03 -0000, Arthur wrote:

It's very similar to all the 'free iPod' claims.

"If it sounds too good to be true, it is!"

Arthur please do a little research on the subject and maybe you will
find
this isn't so far fetched as you deem it to be.

As stated, this is a frequent device by many web sites to boost their
traffic, which pushes up their ratings on search sites like Google. The
more hits they have, the nearer to top of the search list. The most
usual
'prize' is an iPod, but this one has just the same presentation.

The number of hits a site gets bears no relation to it's ranking in a
search engine.

It's too late, and I'm too tired, to go into details but I can assure you
that this is how Google sets the rankings.

Exactly how does an external search engine know how many hits any
given website has had? Short of parsing a copy of every website's log
file, there's no way they could tell hit counts. You are confusing
this with Google's ranking by pages that link to said website.

Lee.
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"Arthur" wrote in message
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As stated, this is a frequent device by many web sites to boost their
traffic, which pushes up their ratings on search sites like Google. The
more hits they have, the nearer to top of the search list. The most usual

Explain how that works please.
Number of hits is entirely unrelated to where an SE places a site.
Consider this question: how do Google et al know how many hits a site is
receiving?
Hint: they don't - how can they?