There are many factors that are involved that induce a better “link”:

1. Authority score (or expert score) of the page (Natural external links pointing to the specific page your link is resident)
2. Internal link hierarchy and link naming conventions or breadcrumb paths to the page your link is resident on
3. Page “theme” > page title of the page your link is resident on
4. Page “theme” > title element of the page your link is resident on
5. Page “theme” > additional text copy (content) of the page your link is resident on
6. Totally number of links on the link from page comparable to your links
7. Your link anchor text (or image – where image is increasing becoming less beneficial)
8. PageRank of the page
9. Hub score of the page (which is a factor of many of the above noting outgoing links campare to incoming links)
10. Link position on the page where page top gains more than page bottom

Last nite; I saw my backlinks go back to what they were before the update last week. Then; they went back to the new. Ok; now I go check; and there looks like another change: going back to what they were last week.

Can we say aggravation? Can we say Frustration?

has been crawling my one site like crazy today. More so than I’ve ever seen. And links are going back to what they were. hmm.

july 16 google crawled a lot yesterday and today; had one more /search from one of the centers.

serps have changed, pretty much for the better; but no huge thing. Couple more keyword phrases are now coming up.
Those that dropped came back with one other dropping off. (no biggie)

As of 10:51pm, est; still a 5: but dropped a bunch of backlinks – 66 dropped. Only showing those bls that are 4 or lower for the
most part; go figure on *that* one. www now matches the domain without the www in bl.

The bot

Is doing some massive crawling today. Is this a sign to come?

{Later}

And it’s still going strong. Last month; right before an update; it did the same thing. Unfortunately; I threw away the previous tracker files so I have nothing else to compare it to.