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[Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

You're right Steve but your scenario is more like the cause to my effect
(the backlink part).  Worthwhile content is only one of many ways to get the
links.


On 4/25/06 6:39 PM, "Steven Champeon" <schampeo AT hesketh.com> wrote:

> on Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:15:05PM -0400, Tony Spencer wrote:
>> Here is my super rough breakdown of the factors involved in good ranking:
>> 
>> 30% age of site (older == better)
>> 60% backlinks (quantity, age of link, anchor text, TLD)
>> 10% content on the page
> 
> Funny, I'd have thought the most breakdown was more like
> 
> 99% worthwhile content
>  1% getting the word out so people link back to your site
> 
> But yeah, I agree that it helps to have been around long enough to
> have given people time to link to you.