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Originally Posted by daddynastee
Linkster -- how do you track this information...? And can you explain anything about applied "filters." Thanks.
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I track it using a few programs I had written 4 years ago as well as just simple things like picking a phrase that I know I will usually rank pretty well with and watching the number of results Google reports when you type in the search - one that Ive used for years is the word "sex" (although they censor that search in the US/ English results now). For years the results showed 70 million results - then last year they started their "BD" changeover and it jumped to 300 mill results - two weeks ago it went to 3 billion results - and now its back down to 400 mill
The filters can be seen when they are applied by adding &filter=0 to the end of the resulting url when you type in a search - this will show all the sites being filtered out for dupe/ban etc
There are 100s of filters in the algorithm that can be "tweaked" based on incoming links, authority of the sites, titles, descriptions and on and on.
Recently there have been some people that think there were also domain age filters, ownership dupe filters and many others that havent been proven but are good guesses based on Googles recent acceptance as a qualified registrar