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Update is on :)
I went from #5 to the 4th page!
*cries hysterically*
*runs off to play the Google drinking game*
Backlinks arent worth a crap anymore?
Backlinks arent worth a crap anymore?
Well, on a phrase important for a client the only changes that were made were additional backlinks and went from #34 to #11 and #12 on www2 right now.
Sorta odd to figure this update out.
AW
I was the one who was starting those. Things are so weird this update, and so uncertain, I dunno how useful such a thread would be in this case? If at the end of the dance the results are like they are now, this will be the most startling algo change Google ever did. I see some weird SERPs.
Anyone remember that trick someone posted before to get the toolbar to show the new PR of a page before it moved to www? Might indicate a lot if I could see the new PR values.
on a more serious note if the SJ is the new index it will be interesting to watch the Spam filters being turned on and the back link pressure poured in.
Is this what GG meant by an exciting new algo? Awesome!
I'm off to bed in the hope that, when I awake, the world will be normal and beautiful again... :(
Plus, I worry about the update before the deep crawl and once that crawl has been used. Don't sweat what you don't know.
I must admit to being very disillusioned with this update.
Anyone remember that trick someone posted before to get the toolbar to show the new PR of a page before it moved to www?
This One? [webmasterworld.com] - message #9
- Chad
EquityMind
One of my web site has 72000 pages crawled befire now there are only 1400
Another went down from 32000 to 300.
Why?
Asif
A spammer that I reported and seemed to get cleaned up is back in with different sub-domains. They now have a few results on the front page, but yesterday they had most of the front page in -sj, so I am hoping that they are getting caught by the filter. They are more of a cloaking problem than a hidden text problem though. I will report them agazin if they are still there in a couple of days.
When I tried searching on -sj for things unrelated to my site, I would have to say that I was still able to find relevant information on all the searches. Many of them even compared favorably to www.
I sinking feeling that I am not going to be doing as well in this update as a couple of months ago, but I honestly don't have any problems with the update as a searcher.
No. The one that involves modifying the Hosts file to find out the new PageRank.
Think I found it using the site search here:
[webmasterworld.com...]
NOTE #1: I show 216.239.35.100 as the IP for www-sj.google.com
MOTE #2: DON'T play around with your hosts file unless you really, really know what you are doing.
[edited by: rfgdxm1 at 3:11 am (utc) on May 6, 2003]
I believe GG DID indicate that backlinks would still be slowly added back in and when I asked about a large number of pages I had crawled, he did indicate that if they had been crawled before they would probably be able to be included again in the future. He also did indicate for some that data may be included in the 'next iteration' (whenever that is) but where in that thread or otherwise did he indicate that new content would still be added to the -sj results for inclusion in this update? Some of you keep saying this is the case but I can't put my finger on a post that really says that.
Going to bed now. Hey, maybe I already am and this is a dream. One can hope.
C'mon, it's a softball..........
sj = spamjunk
:)
[edited by: steveb at 3:01 am (utc) on May 6, 2003]
