Wow! Thank you for this post Gremlin
Hard to say what exactly the changes are but from the first couple of checks I did, it appears they are de-value-ing domain name relevance
example
my domain --concertposter.org fell out of the top 100 for the term -concert poster- but a blog post I did on that site is ranking higher than the previous ranking for just the domain. (the blog post had votes on digg)
It appears they are increasing the value of new-ness and Social media zing,
(meaning if your url has social media votes, they move it up +)
Just my initial take.
Don't take this as as a hard result though because that domain may have a penalty because of a reciprocal link scheme.
(domain ranks #1 in yahoo and #2 in Bing for those words, yet NOWHERE in google - therefore penalty)
Cheers!
Last edited by The_Cynic; 08-26-2009 at 03:23 AM.
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