Authority Site Now what?

alpna · 06-08-2007, 09:56 PM

One of my site was just recognized as a authority site by G00GLE.

What shall I expect now, more traffic from Google? I am really excited.

Thanks.

Bacanze · 06-09-2007, 03:03 AM

Wells its good for branding purposes, but you really need to start targeting related keywords to bring traffic to your website

alpna · 06-09-2007, 07:45 AM

Does anyone has any ideas for the site. Thanks.

Janna122003 · 06-09-2007, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by alpna

One of my site was just recognized as a authority site by G00GLE.

What shall I expect now, more traffic from Google? I am really excited.

Thanks.

Well, thats good for your site. If that keywords has high search volume your site can expect higher traffic.

searchbliss · 06-09-2007, 01:11 PM

How did you achieve authority? Age of domain? Anyway, congrats.

minstrel · 06-09-2007, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by alpna

One of my site was just recognized as a authority site by G00GLE.

On what do you base this conclusion?

alpna · 06-09-2007, 04:37 PM

I really do not know why this particular site became authority. I guess tons of back-links including from other authority sites.

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Originally Posted by searchbliss

How did you achieve authority? Age of domain? Anyway, congrats.

alpna · 06-09-2007, 04:40 PM

When you search for a site name in Google for Authority sites it shows 4 extra links from that site (other than home page). For example search for dmoz and you will see it.

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Originally Posted by minstrel

On what do you base this conclusion?

minstrel · 06-09-2007, 04:47 PM

OK. Just checking.

This seems to be a matter of a certain threshold of incoming links. I'm not convinced one can't purchase that threshold... so far.

alpna · 06-09-2007, 04:49 PM

I do not know how a site achieves this status as I have another site (www.mingleon.com) which is older with better PR, more back links and that site is not a authority.

Thanks.

minstrel · 06-09-2007, 07:41 PM

It wouldn't be the simple number of links, but number and quality minus any that for various reasons are discounted.

Abdussamad · 06-10-2007, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by alpna

When you search for a site name in Google for Authority sites it shows 4 extra links from that site (other than home page). For example search for dmoz and you will see it.

Could you elaborate more on this because when I search for wikipedia I don't get the same extra 4 links.

minstrel · 06-10-2007, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Abdussamad

Could you elaborate more on this because when I search for wikipedia I don't get the same extra 4 links.

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...en&q=wikipedia

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Wikipedia
The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over 7 million articles in over 200 languages, and still growing.
www.wikipedia.org/ - 44k - Jun 9, 2007 - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

English - en.wikipedia.org/
Español - es.wikipedia.org/
Français - fr.wikipedia.org/
Deutsch - de.wikipedia.org/
More results from www.wikipedia.org »

Abdussamad · 06-10-2007, 10:10 AM

Interesting. I am getting quite different results on google.com.pk .

http://www.google.com.pk/search?q=wi...ient=firefox-a

and for yahoo as well:

http://www.google.com.pk/search?hl=e...G=Search&meta=

WagerX · 06-10-2007, 10:44 AM

I understand the idea of authority site, but where did you see G classifying you as an authority site? Webmaster tools? Where?

Webfu · 06-10-2007, 12:25 PM

Does having the 4 most popular pages of the site underneath a listing define a website as an authority?

I always thought it was more of an age thing. Age of domain name.

alpna · 06-10-2007, 06:11 PM

Does having the 4 most popular pages of the site underneath a listing define a website as an authority?
>>That's the way Google list a site it has classified as Authority.

I always thought it was more of an age thing. Age of domain name.
>> Age and quality back links (I think).

**Rankenstein** · 06-11-2007, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by alpna

When you search for a site name in Google for Authority sites it shows 4 extra links from that site (other than home page). For example search for dmoz and you will see it.

Nonsense. It's not a sign that you have an authority site. Why would you think it is?

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...334&topic=8523

minstrel · 06-11-2007, 04:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Rankenstein

Nonsense. It's not a sign that you have an authority site. Why would you think it is?

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...334&topic=8523

I think you may be correct but I'm unable to find any definitive information that would explain why only a few sites get those extra links.

That Google link notwithstanding, it doesn't really seem to be dependent on "link structure". Sone of those directories listed are standard phpLD directories with nothing special in terms of URL type or link structure. It seems to have something to do with number and quality of incoming links, perhaps combined with the size of the site.

Cornbread · 06-11-2007, 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by minstrel

I think you may be correct but I'm unable to find any definitive information that would explain why only a few sites get those extra links.

That Google link notwithstanding, it doesn't really seem to be dependent on "link structure". Sone of those directories listed are standard phpLD directories with nothing special in terms of URL type or link structure. It seems to have something to do with number and quality of incoming links, perhaps combined with the size of the site.

But I have noticed those sites in question do very well in the Google Rankings. Type in variations of "best web directories" and most of them are listed very early.