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http://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com http://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.targe...

by almost 17y ago

andreyf 17y ago
Hah! Good call.
redorb 17y ago
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.target.com&fr=sfp&bwm=i https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.ta... is a better source, it shows 3.1mm incoming links... https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.target.com&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=u https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.ta... Shows that only 267k are from outside sources. Target is getting the credit of internal link structure from all their other pages. </educated guess>
- byrneseyeview 17y ago
  If that were true, this would be the best-ranked site in the universe: http://ianab.com/trillion/1.html http://ianab.com/trillion/1.html
  - redorb 17y ago
    Except that those trillion pages have little incoming links ~ so they have no "juice" or "pageRank" to pass. Target has 267k incoming links then redistributes that via internal links / a while ago people started "link sculpting" using 'no-follow' in the link <ahref> to take all the homepage link juice and pass it to what they perceived as their better converting pages.. but google has since come out and said that wasn't a good thing to do...
    - byrneseyeview 17y ago
      Right. Having extra pages, versus extra content, is not specifically beneficial. If that were the case, other sites would fill themselves with specious stuff like empty search results pages.
bgurupra 17y ago
but what I don't get is , lets say I searched for "somerandomthing" and target.com uses this URL http://www.target.com/gp/search/177-0785452-0780336?field-keywords=somerandomthing&url=index%3Dtarget%26search-alias%3Dtgt-index&ref=sr_bx_1_1&x=0&y=0 http://www.target.com/gp/search/177-0785452-0780336?field-ke... to send a request back and then gives me a page saying "We could not find matches for "somerandomthing" Now for Google to index the above lengthy URL and show it in search results when somebody searches for "somerandomthing" in Google, the lengthy URL needs to be used as an hyperlink on some other page right?So where is that page? EDIT: Ok no smartass answers saying on this page :-)

http://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com http://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.targe...

by almost 17y ago

http://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com http://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.targe...

andreyf 17y ago

Hah! Good call.

redorb 17y ago

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.target.com&fr=sfp&bwm=i https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.ta... is a better source, it shows 3.1mm incoming links... https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.target.com&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=u https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.ta... Shows that only 267k are from outside sources. Target is getting the credit of internal link structure from all their other pages. </educated guess>

byrneseyeview 17y ago
If that were true, this would be the best-ranked site in the universe: http://ianab.com/trillion/1.html http://ianab.com/trillion/1.html
- redorb 17y ago
  Except that those trillion pages have little incoming links ~ so they have no "juice" or "pageRank" to pass. Target has 267k incoming links then redistributes that via internal links / a while ago people started "link sculpting" using 'no-follow' in the link <ahref> to take all the homepage link juice and pass it to what they perceived as their better converting pages.. but google has since come out and said that wasn't a good thing to do...
  - byrneseyeview 17y ago
    Right. Having extra pages, versus extra content, is not specifically beneficial. If that were the case, other sites would fill themselves with specious stuff like empty search results pages.

bgurupra 17y ago

but what I don't get is , lets say I searched for "somerandomthing" and target.com uses this URL http://www.target.com/gp/search/177-0785452-0780336?field-keywords=somerandomthing&url=index%3Dtarget%26search-alias%3Dtgt-index&ref=sr_bx_1_1&x=0&y=0 http://www.target.com/gp/search/177-0785452-0780336?field-ke... to send a request back and then gives me a page saying "We could not find matches for "somerandomthing" Now for Google to index the above lengthy URL and show it in search results when somebody searches for "somerandomthing" in Google, the lengthy URL needs to be used as an hyperlink on some other page right?So where is that page? EDIT: Ok no smartass answers saying on this page :-)