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Google does have a form of “Author Rank” in use today at Google

We are also expecting Google to be releasing an update where their algorithm takes into account authority of an author and then gives higher rankings to the content written by a more respected and authoritative author.

Keyword placement plays a part in how Google finds sites. Google looks for keywords throughout each Web page, but some sections are more important than others. Including the keyword in the Web page's title is a good idea, for example. Google also searches for keywords in headings. Headings come in a range of sizes, and keywords in larger headings are more valuable than if they are in smaller headings. Keyword dispersal is also important. Webmasters should avoid overusing keywords, but many people recommend using them regularly throughout a page.

there are nearly 150,000,000 active Web sites on the Internet today

They employ a lot of people on working search quality and they take that task extremely seriously. It just means that they will not make knee-jerk reactions to specific individual problems. They will take a much more measured and careful approach.

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The web has more than 100 trillion web pages

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Cutts explained that this new Panda update should have a direct impact on helping small businesses do better.

One Googler on his team is specifically working on ways to help small web sites and businesses do better in the Google search results.

Note, just because a keyword or phrase isn’t competitive doesn’t mean it won’t send traffic. And if it doesn’t send much traffic, that doesn’t matter either because the traffic it does send is highly targeted. For example, I once optimized a post that landed the #1 position in Google and it helped me make a $1500 sale.