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In my sectors there have been one or two minor adjustments in the returns, which despite a neutral outcome for me, in fairness probably enhance the quality slightly. I think a 'well done' is due for that.

So certainly quality wise, no problems and probably improvement. The dilemma they probably face is time... how to keep the index as fresh as possible without any impact on that quality. That's a hard one of course.

<Can someone please explain to me now that I have the backlinks in the index (one of them to a SPOT 1, PAGE 1, 1 WORD keyword site).. how come I am having worse search results for my pages on www2 and www3 , when supposedly that is what is suppose to give you credibility around here.>

Of course we can only speculate without having lots of details for both pre- and post-update, but one thing to keep in mind with your ranking after an update is that you're not the only webmaster obtaining backlinks; you're competitors are probably trying to promote their sites as well, and they simply may have made certain changes to their sites to increase their ranking.

enjoy the update :o)

I appreciate the reply ... but that's just it.. obviously
if my site is new and I am already attracting 200 REPEAT visitors (not counting new visitors) per day.. I must have some sort of Good content right? I thought that was pretty good for a site that has been in and out of the index for most of the past month.

WHY YOU DON'T WANT TO BE IN THE TOP 3

Besides, when you reach the top 3, you become a big target for all your competitors who will do anything underhanded to take you out. By staying in the #4 to #7 range (me) for 5 different keywords, I am less of a target.

Getting into the top 3 unfailingly means:

1. Your competitors will see spam where there isn't any. Nevertheless, 50 spam reports will be sent to Google who will undoubtably scrutinize you more.

2. Your competitor will just flat out copy your site ad infinitum in hopes of penalizing you.

3. Negative innuendos about your business will appear on your competitors sites.

4. Expect your email address to be the one that is used to register at 500 ffa pages. Consequence = 300 emails a day.

5. Your site will receive 900 links from guestbooks that your competitor signed you up for.

6. Your competitor will trash you in the chat rooms relevant to your field.

I am comfortable $$ in the #4-7 ranking range and nobody is shooting at me.

Yet.

I also rank top #3 for minor kws my competitors don't know or don't care about and it helps to fly in under their radar.

my isp was having a denial of service attack - i saw the google bot was on my site at 3:12am using this ip address 64.68.82.77, and 64.68.82.71

then it looks like my site went down, will this hurt me?

<snip> - I'll demand like 6 months free if it does hurt me - or do you think it's already over and done with?

Next time.......

No PR increase but ranking's gone up, hit number one for another phrase and got from 6 to 3 for a major one. Went from 541 to 289 for the main phrase I'm going for (it's a big one).

Cheers,

Hope everyone has good results,

I know for sure it's not like this in my niche-field.

I mean, submitting your email so a competitor gets more spam?! That's just mean. Do you know for sure this is actually happening?

Being #1 2 or 3 in very competitive serps can cause problems from jealous snipers.

<Anyway, I take it.. that the www shoe will be dropping soon and no hope for my pages staying put?>

i made improvements?

are things still being adjusted

i'm back to 4

although i wanted at least a 5 - i guess we're still dancing

85 percent of all webmasters are overgrown immature children. Pessimistic but true I think. Greed makes them ugly. A self inflated ego and getting beaten in the serps makes them ugly. Jealousy makes them ugly.

Hard work and worrying about one's own site requires too much. It's too demanding for those with a low frustration tolerance. (LFT)

It is always easier to destroy than it is to build.

yippeee