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Originally Posted by Jakez
I received a hardlink from a site that appears on the 1st page of Google with me (I was above them), now their ranking has jumped up 2-3 spots above me for the term and the text that Google quoted from their site is the anchor text they used to link me. Coincidence?  |
For all you know, he also got 100 inbound link with his phrase... However, if your page is about "blue widgets" and you link to some other sites and their pages that are also about "blue widgets", the SEs see your page as being a more authoratative site about "blue widgets".