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January 9, 2006

What is Link Churn?

Link churn which is mentioned in this patent application is "computed as a function of an extent to which one or more links provided by the document changes over time." Basically that means the rate a link and/or its anchor text change from an origin's page or document. The patent application discusses that Google may apply a penalty of your "link churn" is above the threshold, i.e. "63. The method of claim 62, wherein adjusting the ranking includes penalizing the ranking if the link churn is above a threshold."

The question is, what is that threshold?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.



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posted rustybrick in Link Building at January 9, 2006 10:00 AM Comments (3)

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DP network anyone? Also, would be interesting to note whether the points are plotted over long times or short times. An easy heuristic to pick up link networks is to hit a page twice.

 

Posted by Jaimie Sirovich at January 9, 2006 12:38

There is a problem with that type of automation which dooms it to failure

looking at Javascript News Feeds - that adorn many a sites - there may be a valid reason why fresh and updated links change -

Sooner or later someone will get it thru their heads that it is just NOT practical to try to neutralize SEO strategies - this will just escalate and escalate - like the hi-tech WAR technology that many counties have...

Sooner or later the forces involve will realize the benefits of compomise and communication - instead of turning this into a
self-obsessed War-Sport.

 

Posted by Search Engines Web at January 9, 2006 18:05

Won't Google just keep moving the threshold? I think the idea has merit as with the potential end to link buying for "juice".

 

Posted by No Name at April 20, 2007 14:35

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