webwannabee - 4:20 pm on Sep 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

This is just a theory, a hypothesis but here it goee: There is a winnowing process that is occurring; it appears to ratchet on and off every 3 or 4 days.

During the winnowing process period, results are helter skelter. After the winnowing process has ratcheted into the "off" position results revert to normal.

Here's why I say that: 3 months ago my kw "widget" had 75 million results. Now it is down to 50 million. What happened to the 25 million pages?

My site shifts from between position 5 to position 10 when things are going well. During helter skelter periods it nukes down into outer space ( I cant even find it myself)

During helter skelter periods, the results are mush -- databases with no data, cloakers, joke sites, etc.

BUT after helter skelter, the results are solid - good authoritative content with very llittle spam.

What happened to the 25 million $hit pages?

Let us think outside the box. They have discovered a smart anti-spam tool. During SES in NYC, I asked the SE panel (who included techies from MSN & Google) about why in the heck can not multibillion companies w/ the best and brightest engineers get rid of a teen age black hat cloaker. They said it's an arms race. Maybe they are using human eyeballs for the pages with the highest cost per click pages because those advertisers are angry about fraud clicks.

To those of you who have good content sites, hold fast - there is a good chance that your pages will reappear as fast as they disappeared like mine do every 3 or 4 days,

Respectfully,

semi-ameteur seo