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Re: PLEASE help me sort out AltaVista From Leon on 8 Dec '98 replying to Re: PLEASE help me sort out AltaVista posted by Brian Clifton >> >>>but god only knows why??? their is hardly any html - no meta tags, >>>virtuall no page text, and "La Manga Club" only mentioned once >>>in the title. >> >>Well it should be obvious, AV gives prioritity to "Titles". First Come Fist serve. >> >> > >I realise title tags carry a lot of weight - but to the exclusion >of all others?? There are plenty of sites with this in the title, >but get a lower ranking e.g. > >www.peninsularclub.com/golf4.htm places #7 > >has the title: La Manga Club (I) >i.e. fewer words/characters than the #1 ranking. It also has no meta >tags but does contain plain text with the phrase "La Manga Club". I just >can not work out why it places lower?? Do you think money is changing >hands?? > >Brian I been faced with the same situation for the last 6 months... If you follow AltaVista careful enougth you'll see that those 'unfare' rated pages stay on top for about 2 weeks and disappear... They don't slide down in the index... The just disappear... I learned to accept that as a shorcomings of the AltaVista algorithm... Mu .02 $ is resubmit that page and your own page... This should fix it unless you have something in your page that is penelized by AV engine...

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>>> >>>>but god only knows why??? their is hardly any html - no meta tags, >>>>virtuall no page text, and "La Manga Club" only mentioned once >>>>in the title. >>> >>>Well it should be obvious, AV gives prioritity to "Titles". First Come Fist serve. >>> >>> >> >>I realise title tags carry a lot of weight - but to the exclusion >>of all others?? There are plenty of sites with this in the title, >>but get a lower ranking e.g. >> >>www.peninsularclub.com/golf4.htm places #7 >> >>has the title: La Manga Club (I) >>i.e. fewer words/characters than the #1 ranking. It also has no meta >>tags but does contain plain text with the phrase "La Manga Club". I just >>can not work out why it places lower?? Do you think money is changing >>hands?? >> >>Brian > >I been faced with the same situation for the last 6 months... > >If you follow AltaVista careful enougth you'll see that those 'unfare' rated pages stay on >top for about 2 weeks and disappear... They don't slide down in the index... The just disappear... >I learned to accept that as a shorcomings of the AltaVista algorithm... Mu .02 $ is resubmit that >page and your own page... This should fix it unless you have something in your page that is penelized by >AV engine...