Google Update Bourbon Part 3

[Sweet Cognac]

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My whole site has a new cache date of May 25th. Maybe once these other sites around me get recached, I won't hold such an honorable top position. But at least Google has found my pages worthy to sit in the Search again.:) It seems strange to look at the stats and see Google in there, after 6 months of just seeing Yahoo and MSN referrals.

My website has plenty of outbound links, but they are on relevant pages. The problem my site has always had, was a lack of "inbound links." I got tired of searching for people to link to me (with all the spammy sites around) and gave up. So my pages have acquired some links naturally I guess(and I'll bet I still don't have more than 30 inbound links for the whole site) Still have a PR4, which I've had since it disappeared in Nov.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 8:54 pm (utc) on May 27, 2005]

[benevolent001]

Can some one of you please summarize what is this going on since many days over this forum about the Bourbon update

Why it is called bourbon?

In what resepct it was different from other google updates that is has been in talk so much since many
days?

What would be its implications?

A brief description of what has been discussed so far would be highly appreciated.

I tried to gothrough some of the threads but was lost midway..am confused

Thanks for your help

[spaceylacie]

Show up to meet the Google Guys in New Orleans on June 22nd, and ask your questions in person. Google Engineers are the ones who come up with the algos, right?

There's a thread about the Google Announcement in the Webmasterworld Community Center. Google Guys are really gonna be there.

[reseller]

spaceylacie

>There's a thread about the Google Announcement in the Webmasterworld Community Center. Google Guys are really gonna be there.<

And here it is ;-)

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[Dayo_UK]

Ok - 302 redirect to my site for my site name is holding steady - I am seeing a bit of traffic as a result aswell.

Still hoping that Google are working on something big and giving them the benefit of the doubt for now.

However, if not I will need to find someone to 302 redirect to every single page of my site.

[reseller]

Dayo_UK

God morning!

I see no much movement on most of the DCs. Do you see the same?

Thanks.

[Dayo_UK]

Nope not much happening - some sites are coming and going - but nothing dramatic.

Hard to know if update is on hold due to other factors (page rank, cache probs etc) or if we are done.

[RichTC]

I just think they turned the site age knob up a bit more from after midnight Friday.

Because sites over say 4 yrs old are ranking high with non relevent content over dedicated younger sites.

Likewise all the doorways, poor directory sites etc. As long as the domain is old enough they get in.

In my sector one site ranks top ten for all major related keywords and its simply a site that has about 12 links on the page with the keyword in with a re-direct to the sites home page. Anyone that searchs for blue widgets clicks the result, this spam links page flashes up then re-directs to the home page. It has a link to it from a high PR website that owns it!

Its just amazing that they had it right on Friday and now we see this pile of cr@p.

Perhaps they want cr@p serps in the hope that more paid adverts get clicked on? Over time, with serps like these users will leave in there droves.

Oh and One final thing, i notice that the unhappy with the results link has gone from the bottom of the results pages - not that they take any notice anyway!

[JudgeJeffries]

How can it be done when there are two different algos more or less equally spread through the DC's or is this the new Google?
If it is then it will be a major change and Google, having a responsibility to shareholders, are very unlikely to risk rocking the boat with such a far reaching innovation. There are also other unusual factors in play here including the PR situation.
I think there is more, much more, yet to come.

[RichTC]

Well i hope your right JJ - because currently google results are in one big mess!.

[helleborine]

Because sites over say 4 yrs old are ranking high with non relevent content over dedicated younger sites.

Likewise all the doorways, poor directory sites etc. As long as the domain is old enough they get in.

My observations as well.

In fact, the Ratfink ranking at position #1 for my company name, while I languish at position #145, has all the hallmarks of a scraper page. Tons of affiliate links, big list of links with very short description, no text, a very few images, and AdSense. Very old site.