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All YouMOZ authors are heroes. These people take many precious hours away from consulting to share something awesome with the rest of us. SEOMoz should stop whatever they're doing, fix the limited editor functionality and enable communication with authors as a priority.

Hey guys, what are in your opinion top ranking factors for YouTube optimisation?

Any idea as to why the cache redirects?

Tweets and other social signals do affect SEO.

I would encourage you to look at Google Webmaster Tool data and observe clickthrough rate averages around different keywords and derive phrase potential by predicting traffic scenarios if position for that phrase increased by n positions and how much it would yield in terms of conversions.

Thanks for that URL! I didn't realise there were so many.

Why do you think he deleted that post?

lol @ http://www.haidt.com/google-adsense-f10/bipolar-antidepressant-t29644.html

Our industry is in grave need of reputation management.

Panda took care of half of that rubbish didn't it?

That's right. This is no ordinary result and is an extra much like news at the bottom.

Counting results on the page... yes this is a separate result completely.

Unless Google introduced 11 results per page and I was not aware of it

It's either part of Google getting smarter and detecting absolute authoritative results for a search vertical or... Google starting to steer away from their algorithm only and no-humans policy in results and marking certain things by hand.

I did a quick search for that image in Tin Eye (nothing) and in Google (1 result) so it seems like this is Google's thing only and the image is designed to highlight a verified health result.

This reminds me of comment that Mr. Weitz from Bing said about the future of search and how ridiculous it might be to judge the validity of results by link popularity in some cases:

"An expert from Bing, Stefan Weitz, notes that relevancy in search is based on PageRank. PageRank determines the position of a web page based on the analysis of links referring to that page. He notes that relying solely on this model to find, for instance, the best cancer hospital is ridiculous."

Or he has a paid geek that does his tweeting for him.

Search for SEO in Twitter and top result says:

"aplusk: I'm starting to become convinced that people put my name in articles just to improve their SEO or hoping I'll tweet it."

When you click on the result it brings nothing!

Another weird thing, when I search for the sentence and view cached Google result it immediately redirects (which is unusual and annoying). I managed to find a text only version of cache here.

Can somebody please explain what's going on here?

PageRank is rarely updated for public these days. If your redirect is set properly all your PR should show in the next toolbar PR update. If it still shows 0 then there are two possibilities: a) links that gave you pagerank don't exist anymore or don't have pagerank themselves b) penalty. Both are quite unlikely. I recommend you don't obsess too much over this and one day you will be pleasantly surprised with a bit of green. Keep in mind that will be only a historical record of PR when Google last took the snapshot.

If we forget the anchor text for a sec and focus on PageRank only, it should split up in two minus the dampening factor (0.85) and then converge back into the same URL. If only one link to the same URL from each document counts for PageRank passing I would like to see a study or a test that demonstrates that.

From my testing (and I do a fair bit of that) I conclude that links still outweigh every other signal. Though it would make perfect sense that newly introduced hints steal a bit of link graph's glory until it's put in a fair place with everything else. I notice Matt Cutts still talks about links a great deal in his videos which confirms my view that links are still going strong.

What puzzles me is how strongly they treat exact anchor text, when in natural world we rarely see it happen, it's usually click here, or read more or just plain website address. This is the area I believe needs fixing sooner than others.

Back to the original topic... once links stop being a super-signal content and function will rule.