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At the Q&A session during the 2006 Chicago SES, all the search engine representatves stated "Absolute Links" were superior to "Relative Links"! Although, I use few relative links, I do use them in my navigation. So with that good advice in hand, I changed the nav links to absolute. Before the change, my Google serp for my primary keyword was #29. The following day, my Google serp was #61! Something very wrong here! In the next two weeks, I gradually eroded to #80.
Yesterday, the 20th of December, I changed the absolutes back to relative. Today, my Google serp leaped back to #41!!
I believe I tripped a text to code ratio algo! While the changes were relatively small, they made a huge difference in my serp. This only affected my Google serp, there was no change in Yahoo and MSN.
The domain is safelists.us and the keyword is safelists. As mentioned previously, the only change was the nav menu. Anyone can check the source to see how insignificant the change was; yet, it seems the threshold if it exists was triggered. |
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