subbu - 2:13 pm on Jun 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

JJ:

I launched 6 in March/April 04. Half are out, half are still in. Same writer, same size, same links aquisition process, same optimisation technique, bog standard, clean, simple template sites.

This could be anecdotal evidence supporting that a site may remain in a holding pattern depending on how competitive the KWs are.

JJ - have you noticed if your sites that are getting returned competitively in Google SERPs are going after "less competitive" KWs?

S.

PS - here's my data - got out in 6 months (Dec -> Bourbon) - assuming that the update is more or less over.

The two major KW pairs pre update produced 2.5M and 1.5M results (mildly competitive) - those same KW pairs post update produce 1M and 800K results.