July Update?

[Heywood_J]

Is it me or does it look like a significant update is going on at google. I am noticing a number of SERP changes for a few of my sites and they've been fluctuating for the past few days.

Anyone else noticing any major changes?

[Marcia]

This is too beautifully executed to be a glitch.

[srinivas]

Now i am seeing the old backlinks!

[Powdork]

Google shouldn't give any value to links coming from unauthorized Web sites (sites that I don't link to).

Huh?!

[markus007]

Marcia they could do even better and just remove the link: command. I mean who uses it other then people who visit webmasterworld?

[union_jack]

wow i thought i had done well seeing my links go from 450 to 3900, you guys know how to knock the stuffing out of someone.

What i have to do to get a pr of 6 is beyond, my main compitors all have pr6, are all above by simply linking all there sites together in total tens of thousands of pages and it works for them. I have worked hard on individual links and also interlinkeg my 3 main sites but from what i read here its not going to make a jot of difference.

Can someone tell me if i take 3 main compitors all with thousands of links and pr 6 and put a link to them on my front page with no linlk back from them, will that increase or decrease my pr.

It would be nice after 4 hours of soul destroying work to get a little success.

[steveb]

Linking to competitors will raise their PR, and will give you less PR to recycle through your own pages. If they have solid, quality, authoritative sites though, linking to them could possibly help you for other reasons. Better to ask about that in a separate thread though.

[Powdork]

union_jack, I have a similar problem. The sites that run a network that place very well for 'region name' queries have invited me to join them by exchanging links. They have high pr and by most standards would represent a coup to have them ask me to exchange links. But they also have a linking pattern that greatly disturbs me. They all interlink with a network of sites that are obviously trying to game the system. Each site has thousands of links from the network all with varying beneficial anchor text, all controlled by the same webmaster. Google seems to have a clue since they rarely rank more than two well at the same time anymore. Their content is often copied from .gov's, or just as often is someone else's site in a frame. My site is young and I am in it for the long haul, so I have not replied to their inquiries. I simply take it as a compliment that they asked, and keep doing what I'm doing. There are pages on their sites that I already link to anyway, since it benefits my users.

That last sentence IS IT in a nutshell.

[zafile]

"Google shouldn't give any value to links coming from unauthorized Web sites (sites that I don't link to)."

I found a bunch of pages that were copied from valid sites with links to one of my sites.

One employee at one of the companies that I manage a site for created his own Web site.

To obtain content fast, the employee copied a bunch of other small sites and only modified the bottom of their pages to include his contact information. However, the employee also included links to the main company site (the Web site that I manage!).

So let me rephrase the issue:

Google shouldn't give any value to links coming from unauthorized Web sites that use stolen content which link to my sites.

[edited by: zafile at 8:58 am (utc) on July 18, 2004]

[TravelMan]

"Google shouldn't give any value to links coming from unauthorized Web sites (sites that I don't link to)."

Some might argue that statement in the reverse. ;)

[powerofeyes]

>>>>>>>>This is too beautifully executed to be a glitch.

Agreed, Already commands like allinurl, allintitle was broke now they broke link: command too, So what its worth to google, All webmasters/SEOs/Site owners go to Yahoo/MSN/Alltheweb to check their backlinks, End result they loose valuble traffic, I hope it is temporary because big looser will be google and no one else,