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Go go gadget Google!
I won't be going through this in six months because I'll already have a pretty solid idea of what's working for me and what's not by then. Besides which, my site is so all over the map (in terms of content) that I just won't have the time to optimize for more than a handful of the most important key phrases, and within six months I expect to be doing very well for those. I'll have more pressing things to worry about than Google updates.
From what I've seen many people here (mostly the newbies - the old guard seem to know better) make the basic mistake of focusing on short term results from SEO rather than long term strategy. Google could totally change its algorithm for the next update, completely invalidating any SEO work I've done. But if I've put together a high quality web site and built a decent user base, chances are people will find it no matter what Google does.
But I have to get some users there in the first place to make it happen, which is why I'm anxious now. :)
Anyone else notice any changes?
So going by that theory, maybe it's not going to be for a little while longer. I get the feeling he knows around when it will happpen (within 24 hrs) once things are set in motion. Then he comes on here and watches us all and gives us his play by play and holds our hands if we've been kicked out of the database or are plagued by a certain spammer :)
So not today at 1am, I'm thinking more around the 5th or 6th unfortunately.
Anyone care to chart GG's frequency of posts as a function of days before/after past google updates? Maybe we can use it to predict future updates :)
I have about 20k pages, and now in www3 it's a few hundred less. Not sure if this means anything at all.
viva la updata!
Does this mean that the update / google dance is happening?
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I would not post that I found results to be different unless I had checked them a few times. I used a tool that searches all three at one time, maybe it is not the official tool, but it is one that was suggested to me to use in this forum.
I apologize if it seems that I am too eager as it has been suggested to post…but that was not my intention. It was to “ask” if others could verify what I, myself had seen.
Kindness and consideration is always welcome and appreciated, and why I love these forums….I am here to learn and participate.
good one :-)
And what is egoolation?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/google-friends/
That's a PR9, but from that page's backlinks it doesn't seem to have the links to make it there.
Is google artificially wanking up their own announcements board? ;)
OK, I'm sure they're not but it doesn't add for me. I'd believe it if it was a toolbar guess from groups.yahoo.com, but since it has its own backlinks...I dunno.
Don't take to heart anything here, believe me most here are very kind and helpful. We are simply toying around and enjoying a bit of word play.
Yes, the accepted indicator around here is unequal Yahoo backlinks for www, www2 and www3. If you click the link I posted earlier in this thread, you will see a triple split window with each of the WWW's backlink count for Yahoo. When these are equal, no dance. Unequal, the dance is on.
The serps across the WWW's have variations in my experience, I don't know what exactly causes it, but it seems to be associated with freshbot updates.
I think you might be talking about a different order of search results (which can often happen across the www, ww2 etc without an update) while other people are talking about the number of backlinks to Yahoo, which only changes with a genuine update. Actually, if the number of backlinks to your own site changes that is also a reliable indicator of an update.
Everyone makes a bad call every now and then on the update. Reason why you get flamed when you do is that quite a few people are desperate for the update to happen and if their hopes get shattered, well its a big letdown.
I almost called it the other night and I made a worse mistake than you...I mispelled my keywords and lemme tell you that makes you see a whole new set of search results in a hurry!
Thanks.
My backlinks have changed on www3... same number of them, but ordered differently. Never seen that before.
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There is no making a bad call if one simply checks the Yahoo BL's as described.... is lemme one of those misspelled keywords?
