Related: command

Hi,

I have noticed today that my well ranked competitors have sites of their industry come up, when I use the related command on their domain.

If I do the same on my domain, not a single competitor (=same industry) shows up, but all those sites that have to do with the sites I got my first links from.

Age of links seems to count BIGTIME here, (and maybe in general, as many here say)

Just wanted to share and give food for thought

One more info: The sites that come up are ALL sites that my first links I had link to as well, so that is the famous neighborhood. And it is really only the first three or four links I got about a year back. Meanwhile I have about 200 domains linking to me, the vast majority related, but on average only three months old: Totally ignored still by google.

Age of links does matter along with the quality and relevancy.

Search engines look at for how long a link has been in place.

Bottom line is longer a link is in their place better it is.

Its all about getting that Trust Rank which you gain with the passage of time and that is what matters when it comes to getting good rank in Google.

<snip> I knew that age of links is important for the link juice, but what was astonishing to me is the degree to which the theming of the site is time dependent (3 links for 1 year outweigh 100 % 200 links for three months).

That is what was surprising to me, and basically I hope that time will make up for it as i need google to understand the insustry I'm in .

Hi cristine01

The principles behind Google's "related" results is more to do with a thing called "CoCitation" (basically it has to do with what links appear alongside yours on other sites).
There's is a terrific explanation of CoCitation <-here; it makes very interesting reading and is something every budding Google SEO should know.

I agree and understand. But it's not that the old links had other links in its neighborhood and the new ones wouldnt.

The cocitation total for me should be now 90 + % inside my industry, but what google currently tells my via the related command is totally different and ONLY based on cocitations of the old links, and when I say ONLY I mean it:-(