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The Brandy changes have allowed more information pages in the serps than had been the case since mid-November last. That fact has not really displaced pages from commercial sites in that sector. I believe that an effective balance between the two has been achieved. (The heavy spamming of the serps by pages with affiliate links is another matter, which I explained in my e-mail several days ago, so no chapter and verse about that here. Can I hear a collective sigh of relief?)
GG, did the 64 results from last week get merged with the old results? I mean things look so different now.
Also under this key phrase, I can see 4 sites with double listing, not indented, but seperate listing within the top 35 and a 5th site in the top 71 results.
[edited by: Ledfish at 5:39 am (utc) on Feb. 20, 2004]
Personally, I havn't moved an inch for placement since the first 64 results last week. If anything, I slid up a bit after I added some content to my site and semantics.
Top 3 for over 70 competitive single KW's btw.
#1 for 700 for 2 word phrases.
SEO isn't about one formula. If you do one thing well, you will definately be in and out of the game. It's about being an authority and doing a LOT of things well.
My 3 cents.
I have been at this many years and I dont neither employ nor approve of any BS methods for getting to the top.
What I am seeing IS authority sites dropped
it makes me wonder what methods they are employing for SEO.
Puleeze, I am SO sick of people subtly (and not so subtly) accusing others of spamming around here. Could it be that an actual algorithm might affect rankings?
Sheesh!
Is someone suggesting that due to my SEO or Lack of it, that google is and should right fully so, be punishing me by give my competitors multiple listings under the same phrases.....that would be a stretch!
My feelings too. Instead of www starting to look like 64.x it appears to be the other way around.
Thats funny Medcenter.I can only find one serp you are in and thats at no#5.
Cheers
would that include the UK? I'm still not seeing it
Added: We do welcome any feedback at webmaster [at] google.com with the keyword brandyupdate if you have comments..
1) This "new 64" does seem a bit weaker than the previous 64 results, and I'm attributing that directly to the new 64 having more "fresh" drivel -- lightweight, pseudo-sites. The previous 64 was (for lack of better words) a deliberate, thoughtful, planned index. It was created from solid data without the influence of fresh piffle. Which means I get to roll back to a rant from eleven months ago -- Google thinks "fresh" is good (like it thinks long URLs are good), when in fact it is not. Fresh pages appearing in the top 20 for a competitive term should simply not happen. The old Google update cycle mostly prevented this lightweight stuff from temporarily doing well. Now we have a revolving door of 10-15% of the top 20 being different piffle. The rest of the results though are solid.
2) I notice the results for:
word1 word1
and
word1 ~word1
are significantly weaker than old 64. I found those two searches brought up very strong sites for one word searches. Now it is still pretty good but not excellent.
