In a previous entry I wondered out loud why, for a site that is still essentially unknown with nearly zero other sites linking to it, Google searches seemed to place this site's pages relatively higher in the rankings than I would have expected. I went so far as to imply that because I was a member of Google's AdSense program, that might have skewed the results in my favor.
Since then I've reconsidered. I now think Google is rewarding me because my pages have a relatively high signal to noise ratio; that is, I don't have a lot of embedded graphics, fancy menus, and other clutter on my pages, so the content isn't buried in a sea of irrelevancies.
Of course, that is still speculation on my part, but I think it fits the facts.
Posted by jt at September 13, 2003 03:02 PM