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Subject:  Link Popularity – does it really matter?
Author:   John Duffy:   view profile | all posts by this author | add to favourites
Date:   09:47:39 18 February 2003
 
I'm still wet behind the ears in terms of experience, but wondered if this site I have been working with casts any light on your discussion.

I guess I'm happy to hold it up as an anomally - we have done almost no search engine registration or inbound link promotion, the site has been 'inactive' for 6 months (they went bust, we hosted for nothing, but there was no new content during that time) and yet www.autismjobs.org has a Google ranking of 5 and plenty of relevant traffic as a result.

My assumptions are:
1) We've got the name 'just right'?
2) Charity sites score better than commercials?

This isn't a site plug (it's irrelevant to this forum!), and please be as brutal as you like about the site - I'm just trying to figure out more about how it ranks 5 with so inbound few links?
 
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