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Subject: Re: UKNM: Frames and Search Engines
From: Stefan Magdalinski
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:09:52 +0100

Lee Atkinson wrote:
>
> A bit off tangent, but does anybody really know the exact criteria that
> search engines rates your site? Is it the most matches of your meta-keywords
> against the actual content of your pages. or is it the site that has the
> most trafic, the most pages, or what?

a fairly closely guarded secret for obvious reasons. and it varies from
engine to engine.

I can tell you for sure that NONE of them use "the most matches of your
meta-keywords against the actual content of your pages"

as this wouldn't be a measure of how relevant your page was to the
query, just of the correlation of your page with itself.

stefan

>
> Cheers
> Lee
>
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