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Just when you think they can't get any more weird...
Hey Brixton, you been smoking some of dat weed from da brothers outside brixton tube ;)
Since googleguy left I am all you guys have ;)
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I don't believe it is completely false, but it is not completely accurate either. I use it gauge how well I am doing compared to the competition. So I pay attention to the backlinks and ignore the PR updates.
G switched back to the older index. You will have to wait a little while.
Any significance to that?
i was pleased with the links showing up. going from 1 link to 87.
then gone with the wind. any ideas?
Be nice to see some serp changes to go along with this.
I surely hope not, on one of my sites, the top page went from PR5 to PR1(today back to PR5)! The next tier down...No PR change at all (stayed at 5). The very bottom level pages, several thousand of them, went from 2 to 1 and now back to 2.
Most amazing to me is that from Saturday until today, the site fell completely out of G's index...but is now back in (except for the index page).
If this IS a preview, why would G do this? I see no benefit (except possibly to cause some neophytes to panic and do stupid things) that G could derive from such a move.
Does anyone here support the notion that G is simply disfunctional and screwing up?
I call it a useless PR update, as the serps have barely changed for months now, cept for a few changes here and there.
Come on G - shuffle it up already. It's getting stale! :-)
We used to call it the Google dance, but this is not exactly a dance in the classic sense.
Be nice to see some serp changes to go along with this.
Be careful what you wish for.
Seems to me that last year around this time the Grinch showed up and dumped thousands of sites out of the index just before Christmas.
I call it a useless PR update, as the serps have barely changed for months now, cept for a few changes here and there.
I've seen the exact opposite. My primary page's rank has not changed in months, and the new pages Google has index'd have not yet gained any PR. But G has hit my site for over 45k hits this month alone, indexed over 1000 pages (most of them new), and my SERPS went from being on page 3/4 (bounces between the two), to the top of page 2. (Much needed boost for me, especially on a very competitive keyword.)
I've been trying to decide what has given me such a boost lately and here are the primary things I've noticed, keeping in mind I have NOT added any new backlinks (and I have very few at this point):
1) More useful URL's (keywords in the URL)
2) More useful Titles (keywords first, site name last)
3) More indexable pages
As I have said, those 3 items together have launched me from page 4 to page 2 in just about a months time, for a keyword that returns over 3.5 million pages. I've got two other tests running for other sites, to see how G reacts, and this should help me decide what factor I added to me SEO toolbox next.
DS
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P.S. The SERP's changed for us several days ago, and changed again yesterday, FWIW.
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Here's a weird one: an old client had me do two similar sites but didn't want any marketing except for a Y! Direcotry listing on one of the sites. He's been put out to browner pastures and his new guy put 100% identical content on the 2 domains, nothing tricky, just a complete, exact copy. This is not a spam complaint; the domain listed in Y! shows PR but is confined to the Supplemental Index.
Both domains have a grand total of 2 (identical) backlinks each showing on Google; the weird part is:
-they show the same Y! Directory backlink, though only one domain is listed in the Y! Directory,
-and they share an identical 2nd backlink, though only the other dupe domain is listed there.
[added] geeeeez just checked and after 2 days the backlinks have returned to where they were.
Google is becoming like a girlfriend, unpredictable and frustrating at times but you just gotta love her.
