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Originally Posted by porno jew
don't agree with this. most have been wiped and increasingly so with every panda update.
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I don't really pay attention to them much anymore. So i'll concede thats the case because i'm too lazy to start looking
. The specific example i was thinking of when i was typing was 3pic being number 1 for "teen sex" for many years as well as some of the other older tgps holding similar phrases for many years. The whole "Bounce rate" myth isn't new and never did impact search results. Though it might be one of countless signals that are factored into ranking, its not important and its really only known by those using analytics.
Anyway, no matter what particular factors people may think are important... people seem to forget that first and foremost, backlinks matter. Thats how Pagerank works, thats how the value/trust/authority of a page is determined, thats why the people that are ranking for the top phrases in porn are number 1 and thats the single largest reason everyones sites move around, up and down... because all sites are connected and the behavior/ranking of each has an impact (negligible or not) on the ranking of others.
Adult domains are probably about 1.5% or so of all registered domains, a significant % of them are parked and a significant % are not online. Most sites are small... just a few pages vs mainstream where sites might have 100s of thousands or millions of pages. In the context of the internet as a whole, the adult internet/adult pages are most likely much less than .1% of all pages online. So it cannot be overstated, the degree to which they are connected and the degree to which, each impacts the other.
... (edit) - The point being that a few sites can be hit very hard and those effects trickle out and effect others negatively who have changed nothing and are doing everything right through the loss of those inbound links ... or competition drops out and yours rises just because its there, next in line etc etc .. not necessarily because one is doing something right or wrong or different.