photopassjapan - 2:46 pm on Sep 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

Since i'm not doing any major changes to my site the last two weeks regardless of these ups and downs... i feel that i'm monitoring whatever is happening with Google.

It started before sep 15th in my opinion, i have been seeing my BLs updated on and off every half a day or so from around the 12th. Before this, that test datacenter was the only one with this information. Now it's on Google, everywhere. The data is NOT presented the same though. It's similar but it's not the same, perhaps it's just filtered in a different way. The inbound links it shows are the same.

Traffic didn't go up. Nor did it go down, there's just no place for it to go any lower, it's still the 'PR0 for no good reason' effect . It's a brand new photo site btw, for those who didn't read my whining before. Was a decided PR0 from the day it was uploaded... and wasn't re-calculated for more than three months now... or perhaps it WAS and still is evil in Google's eyes. Whatever, that feeling's mutual now.

But the point is... PR wasn't affected with this change.
BLs and some results were.
How about your sites... were all aspects affected or just BLs and position?

The OTHER point... regarding the keyword in the anchor text link idea. Although you mentioned site navigational links, and this might just be a coincidence. Like google itself is just a bunch of coincidences now.

I used to type the domain without the extension into google ( and yahoo and msn ) to see how it's doing. The domain was chosen because this word was non-existant on the web before anyway. Easy to look up any feedback about the site ( we like feedback, especially if we didn't ask for it. )

Many links we exchanged or got from kind people who are of course all managing sites either about travel, photos or travel-photos :)... have the text of our domain name ( with or without the www or the .com ) in the link that point to us... for that's the site name.

This i noticed today, don't know if it's to stay this way:

I found my homepage, i mean the index page gone from the results when entering this word... heh... yeah, i was wondering how it could get any better. No change in the traffic though it's just frightening in general.

The help page does come up... with another result, the about page, which has been merged into it and GONE for a month now btw, but somehow is still in the cache, even though i have all the tags to tell Google that i don't want it to be there.

By the way it's No.7 on the SERP... No.1 is webmasterworld.com ... :)
( Then a photo directory, 2 results, then flickr, 2 results... then our site )

If i type in the entire domain name with the www...
Our site is second in the results... but the 1st result is an RSS feed from another site we posted some photos to. Oohkay...

So i typed in the domain with the extension .com and without the www... nope still 3rd only. A photo-site-directory comes up with an indirectly scripted link to us.

Now...

I know that if i type it in as text it will be treated as such, and sites with higher PR, higher authority that feature our site's name as TEXT will come up first.

But the point is... that the site was no.1 for all three phrases until yesterday! Three months straight this WAS the keyword we ranked no.1 with... sad but... funny at the same time, the domain that's a non-existant word we dominated with :) And we ranked no.1 with the home page as the result. Now that page is gone from the results if i type in the keyword, and is pushed off if i type in the domain in any other way than the complete URL ( you know... with the http:// :P ).

The only thing that has been changing the last two weeks is that there are more and more links pointing to the home page with the keyword ( the domain and site name ) in the anchor text. The site is the same, cache is from the 11th too.

Might be a coincidence though. I WANT it to be a conincidence.

...gah... i just tried another thing.
This is a single word, remember? I mean the domain name.
If i put that single word in quotes the site comes up first, ahead of webmasterworld.com :X

wow... i didn't know i get different results if i put a single word in quotes... ( okay i tried this trick now with other words... but nope... the number of pages are different ( not 1.170.000 but 1.160.000 ... ) but the SERPs are an exact match. )

We're special! Yay. :/

Interesting engine... this google thing.