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Liam
[edited by: liamgt at 10:06 am (utc) on Oct. 31, 2002]
People can speak anonymously here if they so choose, but they do need to leave out the X-rated language. I know Google's dominance can be scary, but I think most of us have a lot of respect for Google and are not much inclined to slam it when things go south.
We are spoiled spoiled spoiled. We have a search engine whose crawler indexes everything in sight, it updates like clockwork, it delivers generally highly relevant results, and we have ol' GoogleGuy who does a pretty great job of communication
Like anyone else, there are times I say anti-Google things, but on balance it's a great operation and truthfully I don't have much to bitch about. I mean, would I want to deal with AV or Ink dominance instead? No way. I've fallen in love twice. With the Mac in 1985, and with Google in 2000. :)
Patrick...welcome aboard.. although I see your not to new here just on posting.. I recognize you from one of the "other" boards...stick around this place.. you will learn alot more then you would over ""their"
LeeF50
See mbennie message 275. I posted a similar comment in another thread:
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I don't know how to say it clearly, but it seems some of the www2/www3 results are based on an older cache while the (pre-update) www ones could be based on a relatively fresh cache. I suppose even if the old cache is used the newer cache will get into fresh results in the next few days. It just has my head spinning a little to see my current page ranked #1 for a mismash of words search on www, but nowhere at all on www2/www3 because the mismash words don't appear in the old cache.
I understand you falling in love with Google in 2000 but falling in love with the Mac - YUK ;)
Same old, same old on www.
Check the site in my profile (use the most obvious keywords- first name and last name) and see the difference in www and www2.
I still see no discernable "rhyme or reason" to the freshness date..? I've been posting a page a day (as per advice from this forum) sometimes the freshness date shows up. Sometimes it doesn't and I can't see a pattern.
So, how long does it take for changes to move from www2 to www? ( a mystic question, I know)
The sites we monitor may have about 2% more links now, but thatīs irrelevant. Last update they had 3 times more links than those on top, links containing the proper keyword in the anchor text.
To improve, we just did the spammer thing: repeated the keyword a number of times, using <h1>, and a lot more of stupid things, just like the spammers on top. Those sites are now number one again, but I donīt know exactly why.
Make sure to use a css file to hide the <H1> bit, otherwise it gets pretty ugly, but google loves that stuff.
Glad to hear you are doing good!
Thousands of sites are hosted on the same IP I am on. I would assume that we are all screwed for life now?
>Glad to hear you are doing good!
Problem is, it was to easy, anybody can do that. Those sites had hundreds of incoming links, but it seems to be good old <h1> style tricks what work now. If that is the case, next update we will have to compete against web pages 256k long with thousands of repeated keywords on it.
You are doing good, politicsandlabor!
:)
See how you are doing on FAST, they are not geared as much to the "research" market. Google is mainly for scientists and really smart people. Most shoppers will probably use FAST in the near future.
Just don't put it in the footer, googleguy said they may consider that spam.
I reported a really, really blatant spammer, just to test Google response. I specificaly refered to GG and WW. The site is no longer number one, but it is one of the top 20. I canīt say if they did something about it or not.
What did I do wrong, and what should I do to fix it?
Well, it IS spam. But it used to be overpowered by popular linking. If it is what is working now, thats bad news for professional SEO/Webmasters types, anybody can do that, is way to eassy.
