Posted by: ssarge (ssarginson@earthlink.net) on Sun Dec 12 23:00:49 2004

I am a moderator at hitting-mechanics. That said, I could care less about whatever politics may factor into this discussion.

Despite the fact that I am a moderator, I am absolutely in the dark about traffic at H-M. I am vaguely aware of it at eTeamz, because once you crack the code on the counter, you can figure it out. I have no knowledge of traffic at any other site.


I am involved in the computer industry vocationally. The reason Google has come to such prominence is the approach they take to the order in which they list search results. The basic approach is to prioritize the response based on the number of links from other indexed sites. In other words, if "Scott's Hitting" is linked from 100 other sites, and nobody else has more than 95 links to their site, "Scott's Hitting" will be the first search result on a Google search.

Site traffic has nothing to do with it. Quality of the site has nothing to do with it. Obviously, content has nothing to do with it - no attamept is made to ascertain or judge these things. The belief is that a site that many link to is probably a valuable and worthwhile site. And often that is true.

However, longevity is a factor. The longer a site is open, the more likely it will be linked. The engineering team - and marketing team - in many companies is very skillful at getting links placed at many sites (and being sure those sites are well indexed).

Probably this is familiar information to most in this forum - I think it is well known. And I'm not sure of the context / point anyway. But I thought I'd throw this in if any are interested.

Regards,

Scott

Today, this statement …
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> “This web site is not about building "numbers", as in number of of posters or visitors.”
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> http://www.hitting-mechanics.org/inv_forums_131/index.php?showtopic=309&view=findpost&p=4522
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> http://www.searchengineforums.com/apps/searchengine.forums/action::thread/forum::google/thread::1076869500/
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> and judge for yourself.
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