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Kackle - can you explain the "dictionary" for me? And how I might benefit from it - Im reading your posts hard but dont see where youre coming from.
Sure. But you have to act quickly. Google will fix this one just like they fixed the hyphen.
1. Google is depreciating pages/sites that are over-optimized for certain keywords or keyword combinations. It does this by looking up search terms in a dictionary of target keywords or keyword pairs that it has compiled. This dictionary is Top Secret, because if you knew what was in the dictionary, you could avoid these words in your optimization efforts.
2. If the search term or terms hit on a dictionary entry, the search results for that user's search are flagged. This means that before the results are delivered, the order of the links, or even the inclusion of links, are adjusted so as to penalize pages that have overoptimizated for those terms. Most likely the title, headlines, links and anchor text are examined. It's possible that external anchor text pointing to that page has also been pre-collected and is available for scanning, but this is much less likely. (Besides, external links are not something within your immediate control, so don't worry about it right now.)
3. You want to find out which keywords that are relevant to your site are in Google's dictionary. Compile as many relevant keywords you can think of that searchers might use to find your site. Now take these words singly and in pairs, according to how users might search. Run two searches for each combination and compare the results.
4. If the results are strikingly different for the pre-filter and the post-filter search on a particular term or combination of terms, it means that some variation of those terms has been flagged because something was found in Google's dictionary.
5. Do lots of searches and you can come up with a list of "sensitive" words that you'll want to avoid when you re-optimize your pages.
It's a nice weekend project.
the search for keyword8 <country name> on www-va brings up more than 3,5 million results, me at #2 with a sub-sub-sub page (PR 0). keyword8 is a very very generic term resulting in more than 17 million pages on Google. It's really our 8th keyword as we use it only for descriptive purposes.
The search for keyword1 keyword8 <country name> on the same datacenter has only a total of 33,600 pages. And we cannot be found at all.
Keyword1 is the name of the industry I'm working in. A search for keyword1 shows my site on -va on #80 the index page being a PR6
Both keywords apear in the title of the page, both twice in the body. There's no description for this page.
Does this sound like anyone will like the results? Anyone any questions?
>>> The search for keyword1 keyword8 <country name> on the same datacenter has only a total of 33,600 pages. And we cannot be found at all.
I repeated that with the "-wqwqzw" and my sub sub sub page shows up #1 plus a second much more relevant page from my site. Hope this helps
So today I downloaded that abc tool for checking pagerank across the data centers.
Having inputted the url of my site into the program, the results report "Dea" in every slot per data center, instead of a pagerank value.
I have inputted some of my other sites and it works fine.
Does anyone know the reasons for this? PLZ
As for this google update, being totally truthful some of the results are not quite a bad as some are making out. My sites are far down the serps unfortunately, but once I figure out why this is then I can go forward.
My favourite set of results so far are at [labs.google.com...]
lol - I don't think that set of result counts anything towards the latest update, but the results are completely different :)
That top 10 site for "jewelry" is one of the most un-optimized sites I've ever seen.
I Hope G's Investment Bankers are not reading this stuff. If so, they must be heading for the hills!
-c
Again, NO. My 2 amateur sites happen to have all the above, and I have NOT dropped for the relevant keywords.
Google WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?!
This is total madness!
I believe it! My jewelry site vanished after being #2 or #3 and always in the top ten position on a certain two word search for 2yrs. Noticed the other top tens also have dropped drastically or disappeared. Now just junk coming up in the results.
Noticing an increase of other search engines in the referral stats. At least I'm still #2 or #3 in those.
Trying to find good search results now has been a waste of time. I've switched to other search engines myself now. Hope they sort the mess soon.
(a real estate site selling ranches) is top ten for jewelry. Can anyone beat that?
:)
Thats a classic!
Can't really comment on that much.
Check that backlinks and you'll see how it got there. I have a suspicion that the page used to have relevant content for "jewelry".
1) The domain does NOT end in .com
2) The page is in a language other than English
off topic , gotta wonder about Brett's bandwidth bill this month?
Aji
