Tuesday 4 December 2007

Anchor Text Experiment – Expected Results

What Am I expecting to see happen over the next 6 to 8 weeks? Based on the SEO Experiment and it's control and well linked sites, here's what might happen.

The first week will be hit and miss as the sites drop in and out of the listings and Google decided what to do with them.

After 2 weeks, if Google is following the links then the pages should be starting to be cached. Maybe not all, but some.

After 3 to 4 weeks I'd expect the sites to be cached regardless, but only a couple of pages cached would show little interest – not following links, but plenty of cached pages would indicate links are being followed.

After 5 to 6 weeks we should start seeing difference in caching. Exactly when depends on how and when Google updates its internal page ranks. But if the links are good we might be seeing weekly caches. If the links are partly ignored then less often. And if links are totally ignored then very infrequent caching and very few pages cached.

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