Google Update Bourbon Part 3

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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]

[Dayo_UK]

Yep - was the same dc as a couple of nights ago - that did not turn into anything and I did not have a chance to have a look at the results before they disappeared.

So - it is a fair amount (not all) supplementals that have gone - dont know if this is because G has database problems/glitch (sp?) or if they are to be removed - or if it is only temp.

[Will Spencer]

HostingDirectory:

The homepage of the hammered site was/is tiny.

Just a few sentences.

[Clint]

Seeing something happening on 66.102.9.104
Looks like a lot more supplementals have been dropped. - Sometimes dancing in and out on other dcs.

Hmmm. Keep on dancing. (This is the dc that I saw for 2 seconds a couple of nights ago I think too)

Your post made me check again. See my post on page 16 #156. So, that phrase for which I WAS on the 1st page 1st hit a week ago (20th), and today and yesterday on the FORTH page, now, to my SHEER HORROR...I'M GONE! No where to be even found even when adding my biz name to the #$^%@!% search! KEEP UP THE "GOOD WORK" GOOGLE JERKS! You know, this is JUST LIKE having your identity ERASED!

[edited by: Clint at 6:47 pm (utc) on May 29, 2005]

[Will Spencer]

Another thought:

This update is over a week old now.

If there was going to be a roll-back, it would have happened by now.

Gentlemen, we're on our own.

[Clint]

A continuation of of my message #183 above:
When I search for that phrase in quotes (PC hardware related phrase), one of my (get this) ONE PAGE SITES for a DOMAIN NAME FOR SALE in the MEDICAL FIELD shows up on the 1st page! Yes, that's right! (On the page I have "this site owned by blah-blah", etc., and the search phrase). Now you wanna talk about more non-relevant BS! Sure, at least a site shows up that "could" reach me.... if anyone happens to think to click a website in the MEDICAL FIELD when looking for HARDWARE!

I think I'll just take a bottle of Valium and go to "sleep".

[MyWifeSays]

I'm seeing irrelevant results for uncompetitive phrases but the results for competitive phrases look good.

Are any of you who are complaining about irrelevance looking at competitive phrases?

[Will Spencer]

Is it conceivable and consistent with others findings that G lost a bunch of the full-page text data (or at least is broken and lost the ability to search on it) and is only searching on Title and anchor content at this point with the later taking precedence? Just a wild conjecture...
Think about it, test it out and let me know what you all think.

Mike:

For many of my SERPs, the results are all pages without relevant keywords in the title, filename, or meta tags.

To me, it is as Google is *only* looking at body text.

If Google were looking at title and anchor text, I would be #1. I dominate my competition on allinanchor: searches.

[johnhh]

>>For many of my SERPs, the results are all pages without relevant keywords in the title, filename, or meta tags

We noticed that a few days ago for some of our keyword combinations. So we have uploaded a few "test" changes to lower ranking pages to see any effect.

Have to wait and see...

[garyr_h]

64.233.171.104 still seems to be showing a lot of DMOZ titles/descriptions in their queries.

[Will Spencer]

I just found a page which is now beating my one of my pages in the SERPS.

The page:

1. Doesn't have the keyword phrase in the page title.
2. Doesn't have the keyword phrase in the page filename.
3. Doesn't have the keyword phrase in the page text.
4. Doesn't contain one of the three words in the keyword phrase at all - anywhere.
5. Has 0 backlinks.
6. Is in Chinese.

Sure Google... sure this is more "relevant" than a page which is all about that keyword phrase.