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This seems unlikely. ET doesn't get that many hits overall in the great Googly scheme of things.

But, it is spam-free, and ET links often turned up high at least in my searches.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 10:34:34 AM EST
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I've noticed that too in searches

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 10:41:59 AM EST
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That could be because you're searching for ET-ish things.

As I understand it, SEO-ers get more of a return from mass-market searches for mass-market items like grills and domestic doodads.

The audience for economic deconstruction and heavy rail is likely quite a bit smaller than the audience for fat-free cooking items.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:12:00 AM EST
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What I meant to suggest is that Google ranking now also contains some measure of quality/spam-infectedness. In addition, for the spammers, the backlinks deposited on ET may be one of many.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:38:16 AM EST
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Well of course - I'm often checking out background in the hope of making some contribution here that does not reveal all of my inadequacies ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 01:29:24 PM EST
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ET gets linked by a lot of blogs and other sites. Not enough! But still, quite a bit. Hence the relatively good search engine profile.

Plus, by a glimpse at the sitemeter, we get a lot of traffic from the google image search, maybe even more as through the normal google search. We post a lot of pictures, and google is as kind to index us even when we do it stealing other people's bandwith.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 03:37:05 PM EST
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DoDo:
ET links often turned up high at least in my searches
A dangerous sign of groupthink?

The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:24:54 AM EST
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More of specialised subjects.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:45:46 AM EST
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(Still, note that the ET hit came ahead of company hits.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:46:42 AM EST
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