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AdSense CTR and $$$ is down a lot due to a recent change I made which targeting hasn't caught up well with yet...but I expected that. I won't know real results of other traffic monitization methods & sales for a few days.

This has been a long treat. Everyone has some points. Regarding to messages most of people are not happy with SERP. We were complaining about sites which were making tricks to get a good SERP. Now this is the time for stoping most of it. According to me Florida has been successful at most of the points. I wonder how Google will stop people who sell links and the people who buy them to get a good place at SERP. I will wait and see.

Lets be wise and congratulate Google Team for their work..
Thanks GG not leaving us without your comments

in my eyes, Clara's personal page on holidays experiences in travel-destination is perfectly relevant to "holiday travel-destination" search. I would prefer results like this against hundreds of resellers and affiliates trying to sell me same thing.

At least on my site, the index page appears to have been blown off the face of Google due to high KWD. I have three "two-word" key phrases, but heavily optimize for only two out of the three. The remaining KW is where it always was ans when I search on that KW my index page ranks near the top of the first page. Now, my KWD on the two problematic keywords is around 5%-9% depending on the tool being used. On the other hand, the KW that appears fine is only about 1% or so.

Better still i will open an account with Clara :)

I understand your point however most of these pages have bad design, not much content and nothing much of interest, not unless you want to know what they did the night before last etc.

Many good quality guides, tourist information, and holiday accommodation sites have dropped from 1st page to 20th page most of mine are not bad. But some have had a big thump.

Some of these sites offer really good professional advice, maps etc which home made clara sites don't provide.

So Googles results may return relative results but the actual content is bad. Thier is a lot of junk out their and Googles needs to concentrate on returning not just relative results but good quality sites also.

How can a 1 page site out rank a site with over 300 pages of pure content and no spamming techniques.

Seriously everyone - is there any evidence that good anchor text is somehow detrimental in Update Filey (North Yorkshire) - it sounds a little crazy to me!

Can anyone enlighten - what's the theory? That maybe Google calculates donor site relevance rather than giving weight to link text? This would be extremely problematic -the relevance of subjects is rarely obvious and I would have thought almost impossible to put into an algo. The alternative would be to remove the importance of anchor text altogether, which seems retrograde.

most data should be incorporated within 3-4 days

Mfishy

Nope.

Now, they still can change and tweak ... a few days later and the thing is really public. Heck, didn't ya notice that Google never ever ran a update without our nod? :)

[edit reason: ya, superscript, it's nod not nob]

the answer clearly lies somewhere between Yidaki's

Sorry mfishy, with due respect (I know you know your stuff) but that is simply untrue.

Perhaps you should define the razor sharp line between "good" and "unnatural" - then I think I could live with your statement.

er..? ;)

Unnatural, maybe. Obviously if it was "good anchor" it would be generating positive effects :)

Anyway, if you know how to use the allinanchor command it should be pretty evident that this is where the majority of the "algo tweak" took place.

Of course, we all knew the heavy weight of anchor text was bound to change, but this is pretty extreme. Methinks the "knob" was turned WAY to far the other way - sending many valuable pages spiraling into oblivion in the process.

Of course, this only furthers my belief that having hundreds of sites in Google is a good "insurance policy".