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Now i am not talking same url, different page i am talking same url i.e www.yourname.com appearing on 5 consecutive pages for the same search term.
Surely this is not possible or is it?
I have seen this on a travel search term on more than one URL searching g.com in the UK.
Anyone else seen this?
Google is going down the tubes quick. Now many sites can just mention the keyword and they're ranked above sites whose content is entirely about the keyword. Spam is everywhere and relevance past the first page of a search is very questionable.
There has to be something we can do, g is ignoring spam reports and general mail and the Press that is coming out of g is pushing towards non commercial SERPS and commercial sites having to pay through adwords.
In the UK on the money program on BBC2 a spokesperson for g actually admitted this is what there long term goal is.
From my point of view it is a sell out and with the SERPS still containing huge amounts of spam and companies with money (i.e able to buy back links) making the top of the engines. They are going the wrong way about this and we are already looking forward to the yahoo switch so that more of G's dominance is erroded.
If you think the url was identical, would you email the search query to webmaster [at] google.com? Use the keyword "identicalurl" and then I can search for that and pull up your email. I'd be curious to find out more details.
I won't share any terms though, because I only seem to see my sites doing it :)
This rotating SERP thing has got to be confusing a LOT of users. "Where was the site I just clicked on?!"
-phish
Why can't you just explain what has been happening for the past 3 months?
There's been talk of a 'process' - but it's all looking a bit crap to me.
p.s. There's more to 'sweetcorn on pizzas' in the UK, we have thousands of years of history.
Cheers
p.p.s.
I have to add this: with over 80% of the search market, if your algo is poor, you could damage the entire Internet. I know you used to care about this, Do you still care?
[edited by: Chelsea at 8:14 pm (utc) on Feb. 6, 2004]
The search term was not at all relevant to our site, which is why I researched it, but our site appeared at 26, 36, 46 and 56. See the pattern? Yes it was precisely the same page from our site each time in the same offset position on the Google results page.
If you really are from Google, 'GoogleGuy', can I ask what on earth is going on with these results you are serving? They are chaos with the sensible and useful sites hidden. Even our intranet has changed its default search to Altavista because of it.
If you think the url was identical, would you email the search query to webmaster [at] google.com? Use the keyword "identicalurl" and then I can search for that and pull up your email. I'd be curious to find out more details.
Googleguy, i can email you an instance where a particular site has been there on every page from 300# to 400# .. shifting 1 spot up every page.
It would be really useful if you could comment on:
a) the current search quality
b) why so many searches result in a directory leading to another search.
c) the value of page rank
d) whether you think the Domainpark concept is good for the Internet, or just a sophisticated form of spam
e) whether Adsense is also a form of spam, but not as blatant as Domainpark
f) whether Google has sold out
:)
And this is really harsh :)
Is spam what only small people do in Google's eyes. Is massive interlinking of useless rubbish by huge concerns o.k.?
[edited by: Chelsea at 8:42 pm (utc) on Feb. 6, 2004]
I think GG is currently busy looking at all the examples that have been requested in relation to the topic of this thread.
I am sure the rest can wait till another time and thread.
lets stick to the topic me thinks...
Shak
with the greatest respect, no.
Google have had long enough to look at the serps.
I rest my case...
so instead of example.com/page >>> page.example.com/page?
shak
Fully understood - and with the greatest respect.
But GG chose to visit this thread - there are more questions than answers on these boards, and I had a few questions.
Best regards.
I do not think it wold be a great harm if GG says "relax, it's not finished yet" or "panic, thats the new G out there". Of course I have been working in a big company too and I know that if I were GG I wouldn comment anything.
Chelsea, when I said that the UK was the first place I've had corn on a pizza, I just relating an anecdote. I liked it! I've since recreated that recipe in my home many times. I like the UK a lot. Much of the good music and literature comes from there, too. :) So I'm sorry if my comment caused offense--it definitely wasn't meant that way when I typed it.
Anyway, I'll post more when I know more about urls repeating.
Edit:
And one more point - the example query is "keyword". When I use the "keyword +www" query, the missing URL (the new one) is on N1 position!
[edited by: pavlin at 9:26 pm (utc) on Feb. 6, 2004]
My widget site is genuinely about widgets!
There's no clever stuff, just content. And it used to rank highly.
What we can't understand is how something that used to rank highly can suddenly - hey, there's no point in finishing the sentence :)
We've followed the rules.
Best wishes
[edited by: Chelsea at 9:21 pm (utc) on Feb. 6, 2004]
They are the same urls over and over.... I noticed these a long time ago, right after austin. Look back at some previous threads, people bring them up. Others have responded back about different datacenters, but this is not the case. I have examples that show the same 3 urls over and over from page 6 through 30+, 10 per page.
I know of plenty of threads about these repeating urls on other seo boards as well. Its pretty much a known fact that this is happening.
The odd thing is that I have many sites but it was only this one that it happens to... it was odd but not worth complaining about by me anyways...
I sent you a report about this Tuesday night, and I think first posted about it here Monday night... as I recall I think I first noticed it though Sunday. I might have been Monday, I'm not sure.
The one I sent is a great example. One site shown 19 times, a different site shown five or six times.
