Update Allegra - Google Update 2-2-2005

[illusionist]

My site which came back on december 26 update, seems to have disappeared again on this data center [216.239.53.99...] . Its notwhere to be found even in allinanchor, allintitle etc? I see majot change on that data center, is this a new update?

[cabbie]

>>I'd rather have 50 referrals total to 50 pages, than 50 referrals to 1 page.>>
sounds like your page cranker is working.

[bobothecat]

"I'd rather have 50 referrals total to 50 pages, than 50 referrals to 1 page."

Amen... a reminder of the 'too many eggs in one basket' syndrome.

[Oldiesgal]

I have a large content site that has been around since 1996. No spamming, no black hat stuff. I have enjoyed the #1 spot for my main keyword, and #4-#5 for many others for a long time.

Now my main is #2 and the #1 spot isn't as perfect a match as I am. The worst is that several of my #4-#5 keywords are now pushing #50 and one that has been #4-#5 for a couple of years is now about #200.

I keep wanting to scream "this isn't fair." You do everything "right" do clean SEO and then for no apparent reason you get slammed. They keep changing the rules without notification or explanation.

I hope that at some point we will be able to figure out what it is they want THIS QUARTER so I can make an effort to compensate and comply.

[brixton]

"Now my main is #2 "
really? and you are angree?
Just look how many people the vanished from the first page to the abyss and you just lost your #1 to 2#
thats very ironic and very egoistic.

[Powdork]

I can understand this

I'd rather have 50 referrals total to 50 pages, than 50 referrals to 1 page.

but not this

If I have a page getting more than 100 referrals a month on the same phrase - I try to change the page if I can.

[theBear]

Powdork,

What Brett was saying was don't have all your eggs based on one page (one keyword phrase).

More pages more keywords covered, more keywords covered less chance of getting zinged on all or even a majority of them in any one update.

I don't think he was saying that if you get 100 or more hits on any one page you need to rewrite that page unless of course that was the only one of very few that you had.

He is saying diversify.

[Powdork]

He is saying diversify.

I realize that.
But would 51 pages with each one getting one referral except one that gets 100 also be diversifying?

[Oldiesgal]

WOW. One of my first posts and I'm "egoistic."

I worked hard for those positions. And my main concern was the drop of the other keywords which you would have intuned had you read the full text.

Yes, I'm [sic] angry for myself and for all those who have experienced loss with Allegra.

[graywolf]

Well, you know I belive in broadbased optimization. If I have a page getting more than 100 referrals a month on the same phrase - I try to change the page if I can.

So do you leave the old page up and add more similarly themed pages with links to the other pages?

DO you turn the page into a mini site map with as many different sub pages as needed?

Or is every case different?

If this gets any longer can we split this into it's own thread?

[Vec_One]

Although Allegra has not smiled favorably on my site, some of my pages are still doing well. That tells me that there is still hope. It's not like the site was sandboxed. It's presumably just an algorithm change that must be compensated for.

I've started some experimentation, to try to determine what will help. Progress would be much quicker, however, if it was done by more people on different sites. If anyone wants to cooperate on this, please sticky me.

Welcome to the forum, Oldiesgal. : )