The sailing link directory provides links to web sites that focus on sailboats, marine products, and sail instruction including books and guides.

" The only thing I could ever come up with, in researching those sites is they were six, seven, eight, nine years old, and they were old, old sites and persisting on that key term and Google had left them there. I mean I thought in some market to get, to just scratch your head, you know they have got like eight links and yet they are still number one with their 12 pages and I have noticed recently that Google must have done something to modify the age calculation and their algorithm because I have seen a lot of these sites just evaporate in the last 30 days.

It is always influx. So perhaps even though they were legacy sites, if they are not meeting the new criteria then it is not working for them anymore. David another factor that we feel important here is that, it is not only the, let us say the presence of the site, has it been around for six months or six years but how often it is updated? Is new content added? Are they are blog entries? Does it look like it is alive still? Frequently we see sites that don’t get a lot of attention just falling out, they just kind of disappear because the search engines particularly Google I believe look at frequency of updates. "