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Authority Sites Directory: The Search For Extra Authority Sites
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- What are Authority Sites?
- Well, Authority Sites are sites which are recognized by Search Engines as "authorities" in certain subjects or topics for some search terms. Think of them as "popular" sites for those terms. These sites are usually big and usually have very high quality and accurate content. One of the important thing about authority sites is that people will often search for them. This simply means that Search Engines believe that they are popular enough and because of this, others will possibly link to them. For Search Engines like Google, and to break away from the mold of just backlinks as votes, they will take it as an indictation of higher quality. Although this may not always be true. As I am sure you know, Google's algothrim is based on links, the more links and the higher quality links a site has linking to them, the higher the rankings it will have. This method is slightly different from the traditional backlink voting system. Although it still makes use of backlinks to gauge popularity for rankings, they see how often someone clicks on a particular site for these terms and assigns "authority site" status for those terms. And I am sure that Google themselves do a careful manual review on that site first before giving it an "authority site" status.
