SEO-Lexicon
Hilltop Algorithm
The hilltop algorithm defines the importance of a website for a specific keyword. The patent of this algorithm was bought by Google in 2003. It was developed at the University of Toronto. Crucial to the relevance of a page is the number of expert pages with reference to the term. These expert sides must meet certain criteria, for example, they may not have the same Second Level Domain (usually the name of the website) as the site being evaluated and the IP address may not match in the first two blocks. The relationship among the sites is also of importance. By linking relationships are generated between websites that are actually independent of each other. However, this is tolerated by the hilltop algorithm. Statistics have shown that only about 2% of all pages are expert pages. The remaining sites do not meet these criteria.
