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The results look really good.. hopefully this will reflect across all the datacenters soon. Seems like the spammier sites I compete against have moved down while the good honest pages have moved up.
AdSense CTR and $$$ is down a lot due to a recent change I made which targeting hasn't caught up well with yet...but I expected that. I won't know real results of other traffic monitization methods & sales for a few days.
I have a few "large" (in terms of pages) infocommerce sites.
This has been a long treat. Everyone has some points. Regarding to messages most of people are not happy with SERP. We were complaining about sites which were making tricks to get a good SERP. Now this is the time for stoping most of it. According to me Florida has been successful at most of the points. I wonder how Google will stop people who sell links and the people who buy them to get a good place at SERP. I will wait and see.
Lets be wise and congratulate Google Team for their work..
Thanks GG not leaving us without your comments
Birdy
in my eyes, Clara's personal page on holidays experiences in travel-destination is perfectly relevant to "holiday travel-destination" search. I would prefer results like this against hundreds of resellers and affiliates trying to sell me same thing.
Why not writing Clara a nice Email and asking for link :)
just make sure the anchor text is off topic ;)
At least on my site, the index page appears to have been blown off the face of Google due to high KWD. I have three "two-word" key phrases, but heavily optimize for only two out of the three. The remaining KW is where it always was ans when I search on that KW my index page ranks near the top of the first page. Now, my KWD on the two problematic keywords is around 5%-9% depending on the tool being used. On the other hand, the KW that appears fine is only about 1% or so.
Since things are no better for me today, I figured I would back off off on KWD and see what happens over the course of the next month or so. Of course, YMMV.
Google directory description is missing for some index page in some search strings. But search strings with major keywords for that site.
Are you referring to linked anchor text pointing to a location within one's own site? Or, do you mean even inbound, off-site links where we have no control? Me thinks you mean the former.
All sites that were created after Dominic have been absolutely crushed, while older sites seem to have done fine.
I have a new site that was just indexed a week or so ago and the rankings are the same as pre-Florida.
in my eyes, Clara's personal page on holidays experiences in travel-destination is perfectly relevant to "holiday travel-destination" search. I would prefer results like this against hundreds of resellers and affiliates trying to sell me same thing.
Better still i will open an account with Clara :)
I understand your point however most of these pages have bad design, not much content and nothing much of interest, not unless you want to know what they did the night before last etc.
Many good quality guides, tourist information, and holiday accommodation sites have dropped from 1st page to 20th page most of mine are not bad. But some have had a big thump.
Some of these sites offer really good professional advice, maps etc which home made clara sites don't provide.
So Googles results may return relative results but the actual content is bad. Thier is a lot of junk out their and Googles needs to concentrate on returning not just relative results but good quality sites also.
How can a 1 page site out rank a site with over 300 pages of pure content and no spamming techniques.
The whole thing does not add up.
just make sure the anchor text is off topic
Seriously everyone - is there any evidence that good anchor text is somehow detrimental in Update Filey (North Yorkshire) - it sounds a little crazy to me!
Can anyone enlighten - what's the theory? That maybe Google calculates donor site relevance rather than giving weight to link text? This would be extremely problematic -the relevance of subjects is rarely obvious and I would have thought almost impossible to put into an algo. The alternative would be to remove the importance of anchor text altogether, which seems retrograde.
[edited by: superscript at 4:28 pm (utc) on Nov. 16, 2003]
I'm I one of the few that is happy about the update? My listings were good before, and now their even better. Of course I optimized all of my pages with no tricks and tried to stay within the rules. I was tired of being beaten by websites that were clearly spaming pages, when I was following the guild lines. As I said, I was listed good before, and now I will reap the rewards!
most data should be incorporated within 3-4 days
GoogleGuy, 22 hours ago [webmasterworld.com]
ALL evidence points to this.
Mfishy
all the evidence points to this
Could you expand? What evidence?
[edited by: superscript at 4:39 pm (utc) on Nov. 16, 2003]
so why does he want spam/quality reports now?..makes me wonder....
Nope.
mfishy, i'll keep holding against your ALL claims as long as i see exceptions. :)
Now, they still can change and tweak ... a few days later and the thing is really public. Heck, didn't ya notice that Google never ever ran a update without our nod? :)
[edit reason: ya, superscript, it's nod not nob]
[edited by: Yidaki at 4:49 pm (utc) on Nov. 16, 2003]
the answer clearly lies somewhere between Yidaki's
Nope
and Mfishy's
ALL evidence points to this
I'm afraid with views diverse as this, it looks like pure speculation in the middle of an update!
The one thing I note is that there are a lot of sites selling the same widgets on Bizrate.com that are now in the top two pages for search terms related to our widgets.
HA! You got it! :)
<Seriously everyone - is there any evidence that good anchor text is somehow detrimental>
ALL evidence points to this.
Sorry mfishy, with due respect (I know you know your stuff) but that is simply untrue.
Perhaps you should define the razor sharp line between "good" and "unnatural" - then I think I could live with your statement.
TJ
Google never ever ran a update without our nob?
er..? ;)
[edited by: superscript at 4:53 pm (utc) on Nov. 16, 2003]
Google never ever ran a update without our nod
learned this new word nod yesterday from my knee capper buddy here at WebmasterWorld. lol.
Mohamed
Think fast - act slow.
