john5 - 2:43 pm on Jun 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

kstprod raised an interesting question - to react now or not?

I made my decision and I decided to put my energy after Dominique and Esmeralda into optimizing my site from now on for my CLIENTS and no longer for Google.

I have a rather dynamic and large .ASP site, intensively connected with a database system. I followed Brett Tabke's basic advice to give Google good and plenty of content. I created a vast web site with hundreds of quality pages and no spammy tricks. Until Dominique and Esmeralda I was doing very well with Google inspite of dynamic .ASP pages.

After Dominique and Esmeralda my Google traffic is down to 50%, the homepage of my English version went from PR6 to PR5 and the homepage of my German version is grayed out. I have no clues what happened - except one posting on this forum indicating that dynamic pages with "?" URLs got a beating.

Anyway, I am tired of wading through 495 posts of "Esmeralda Update No.3" nor do I think it makes sense in the long run - at least for me - to take a different approach.

The situation may be different when you have a small web site or a relativly new one. For me it is clear. I will no longer run after Google's latest algo secrets. I will make changes to my web site when I feel it is good for my clients or visitors - that's it.