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Nick
It looks like this time around, googlebot hit domain names that have autoforwarding, cached the page it forwards to, and when it comes to the new domain, it compares the 2 pages, consideres it spam, and dumps it.
grrr!
i see that one of my new site has PR8.
it is listed in google,
but it is listed under some PR3 pages with the same subject, is google not yet finished or what, is this usual after the www2 goes to www?
if you hold shift and click, you van cleerly result is a redirect.
huh
it just changed again, itnow is straigt url,
i think google want to confuse me.
Google is dooin a good job.
Now I'm *still* up there with these people, with my honest and content filled site - but what do I do next month when they encroach further -adopt their tactics?
They seem to be getting away with the most flagrant and basic spamming techniques. Reporting them seems like wasted time - by these statistics there must be millions doing the same.
So what precisely is this masterful Googlebot? Does it stand for Google-Robot? I suspect not. I'd like to suggest it is indeed a Google-Bot, the Bot standing for bottom (butt I think to my American friends!)
Very disappointing indeed. Are we back in the 1980s!
We're doing 1 update thread per month per many member requests to do so.
But the question is are these sites better for end user?
When I create a site I make the name reflect the content and make it readable. It can then be placed in literature, on lorries, on billboards - and the punters will remember it. The dashes break the words and make it sensible.
End of story really. I don't give a monkey's if some spammers have dashes in there - they have a lot of other stuff too. I would give a monkey's if my sites were somehow penalized simply because I care about the none-net world and how memorable the site URL it.
Any idea as to why the main homepage would be displayed instead of the pages that specifically target the 2 and/or 3 keyword phrase search? Is this is good thing or a bad omen?
Hidden keywords. (White text on white background)
keyword-linked-urls placing high in keyword searches
repitition, repitition, repitition of keywords
doorways with redirects
... the whole ball of (spammy) wax
Not very impresswed with the update this time around. However, Google nailed me (quite rightly) last month for having a duplicate page up. I was testing and forgot to take it down ... (went nuts trying to find what I had done to lose 2 PR points!) ... Found it, removed it and my PR is back up again. :)
It seems PR has very little to do with the serps this time around though. Several sites with PR 1 or 2 are showing in the top search results against sites with PR 6 and even 7??? I think someone suggested some filters may have been removed. I don't know if this is correct or not, but something major has certainly been altered.
Oh well, there's always next month! Never a dull moment with Google.
I'm not sure if this is right, but I have this happen sometimes too and I think it's because I have more links to the homepage than to the individual 2-3 targetted word pages so then it has higher authority due to link popularity. Still, I too prefer to have people find the targetted page rather than the home page since they'd have to sift through all the links on the homepage in order to get to the desired page. Yet, it is hard to get external links to a 2-3 targetted word page since if it's focused on a specific model number etc how many sites would want to link to that vs a homepage that has a lot more information?? Anyone know the answer to this one ?
There are many factors involved. Clustering for one. Internal linking within your own site is another factor.
On www, I am now listed 8th or 16th for one of my key phrases...
My PR is grayed out...
I believe the Google submission page should have some sort of a disclaimer for mental enguish...
zeus
P.s If they can see the mistake will they change it at ones or first next update.
Anybody have some sage advice?
zeus
