Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Mid January I remember wondering where the hell google had got to - my pages in the cache weren't refreshed in weeks. End of last week / weekend the cache of some pages updated daily.
That seems to have settled again.
Anyone else experience this?
* Adwords against company name and variants.
* We've bought variants of our domain name. We normally avoid this to avoid duplicate content penalties but that isn't important at this point.
We still have good sales, but they're from people typing in our company name, so I want to make sure we catch as many strays as possible.
* More PPC adverts outside of Google. Its not to penalise Google, but if they search our name they get our competitors and not us, and I don't want to drive them to our competitors.
* Focus on offline sales. We've always sold much better offline than online so thats where our ad spend should be.
over the past couple of months i have worked very hard on our company website, writing good content adding pages improving the file size of pages etc.
over the weekend our search results went through the roof, we have never had better.
but from reading this forum, im starting to think that its not going to last long.
are my google results due to hard work or an update from G?
dazed, confused and worried that this is a short term thing.
To,
Larry & Sergey,
Hope this reaches you. I am a well-wisher of Google & was a fan....uptil now.
my website is online since 1999. for last 5 years, we have been on first page first site for our primary keywords.
But, now with this recent algo change of urs, we are nowhere.
This is simply NOT LOGICAL! I categorically state that, we have not spammed or used any technique which is called as black-hat.
In your race in rolling out new products, you have forgotten what your core competancy & responsibility is.
If this is the way you are gonna give importance to the quality of your algo, then I forsee Google going the Alta Vista way. I know many people have already said this before, but I just HAD to say this.
regards,
Paul.
Today though one of our sites has disappeared entirely from the search rankings, although it is still indexed. PR4, two years old, no dodgy SEO whatsoever. Yesterday and previously it ranked number one (not difficult as you'll soon see!).
Okay, so other sites have suffered the same, but this site is a little different as it is dedicated to a litttle used slang word - with that word being the domain name too. If you search Google for this word less than 600 results are returned so you can see how little it is used. No other site is dedicated to this word - they just mention it.
I've checked every result of the 600 and this site isn't there. And yet it shows up if you search for www.WIDGET.com.
For me this tells me that no matter how much head scratching I do I won't find the answers to why Google does this or does that. Or why some sites rank well and others don't.
There is no big picture, just countless little ones.
maybe your attitude to duplicate content is where you need to focus?
(Larry and Sergei replied in message number 544.)
