How search engines rank pages
I’ve recently started a journey, to see if I can get a better idea of how the search engines rank pages. I’m basically comparing the position of different search terms in the different engines. I mean I have already started to see differences, for instance, why would one site show up number 1 on Google and number 11 on Yahoo!? I think it all has to do with the search engine’s ranking algorithm - the secret that so many of us lust after. I think this is gonna require ongoing research. Sometimes it seems so futile and I’m not expecting to have the complete ranking algorithms figured out (that might beee tooo eaasy, wouldn’t it?), but I think it is possible to notice subtle differences if one just keeps his eye on the prize.
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