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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]
Yes, I must have misunderstood... sorry about the spam-o-ramma comment. I got stuck on 400 links per page and couldn't get link farm out of my head. Was that right, per page or was that just 400 internal links?
If it's the former, I'd recommend breaking up the links into a number of smaller, site maps, properly optimized, by major topic and go from there.
What is the % of similar content, abeit original, on your pages? If it's too high, that could hurt as well.
My pages are similar in their text content, because the variable content is graphical in nature, ie, the "free widget plans" are graphics. I'm currently working on adding useless verbiage to 450 pages. It's a hobby, I guess. Some people do crosswords.
What could that means in terms of the progress/termination of this update?
MM
Weekend chosen as it was a holiday...
Im still seeing the same useless results in the UK.
Unless they are about to change the results to fall in line with data centre 64.233.163.104 where at least they return results in line with the search made, i dont see any hope for google.
Currently, it looks like the results i see they are happy with, its been this way since after midnight on Friday.
What a waste
Google is already a mature, experienced company with the long term success goals.
They, for sure, do not have the kind of take-the-money-and-run mentality.
You're joking, right? Google went public less than a year ago. They are still in diapers and prone to making many blunders, missteps and miscalculations. From where I sit, these rolling updates, being a pain in the behind, are a symptom of their teenaged mentality. Give them a year or so and they'll likely be just another failed dot-con-glom-er-ate.
Let me explain this one more time, for those who haven't adjusted the antennae on their tin foil hats:
Let's say you sell "world class blue widgets" and you ranked high in the serps prior to bourbon and you also carry adsense to bring in extra revenue from your solid traffic.
Now along comes joe surfer looking for "world class blue widgets" post-bourbon and your site is sitting around #76. He sees a lot of somewhat-related stuff but some very targeted adwords ads on the right.
CLICK, to one of your competitors. Google wins by not having to share the revenue with you, and by not having to adjust smart pricing for the adwrods advertiser.
You get nothing, Hoggle gets it all.
Further, you may not be happy with this arrangement and start paying for some advertising. Now Hoggle is not only happier, but fatter.
Got it? From a business standpoint it's called "maximizing revenue." Problem is, they'll eventually lose all credibility as a search engine. But then, they'll switch the algo again to accomodate that. Don't be so naive to think that this could not be happening, please.
Google is playing with some real heavyweights, notably Yahoo and MSN. In the long run, I think the older guys will eventually trash them into ruin.
As for the Bourbon Dance, yes, we're still dancing and I believe dancing may become a permanent condition. As it is, this is now Day 11. My four word very specific to my site search result has changed. I used to be #1, until bourbon. I've been hanging between 72-76 for the past nine days. Today, just now, #86. A new low! It's actually getting worse, for me, anyhow.
I suspect you're on the right track, trying to make your site look significantly different from a garbage site to an algorithm unable to see its images. Let us know if it works!
