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]

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MikeNoLastName

>The same thing seems to be happening consistently. If you disproportionately link a lot of different, off-site pages, more than your own internal pages, you look like a scraper site and get penalized. Throw in Adsense ads on the pages to boot and it appears to be a sure kill.<

Now that sound very interesting. Need to take a look at in the morning.

goodnight

[BillyS]

Is the toolbar pagerank down for everyone right now or is it just me?...

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BillyS

It's down for me too.

[BillyS]

I just took a peak on the mctool... Down on all DCs. Perhaps PageRank is imploding.

[outland88]

SteveB I just saw that. Google might actually be going on the warpath with scrapers. It's one of the more unusual things I've seen in a while. Its probably going to bounce back. Looks like things are still cooking on a holiday weekend.

[jd01]

If you disproportionately link a lot of different, off-site pages, more than your own internal pages, you look a little like a scraper site and get a little penalized (with some exceptions apparently, like if you're over 4 yrs old).

I tried a test a couple of weeks ago, not knowing anything crazy like Bourbon would be going on. I added a directory (folder) to an established site, with only outbound links, except to the other pages of the directory. (No links to the home page, or otherpages on the site outside of this specific directory (folder).)

This section of the site KEEPS RANKING HIGHER... day in and day out. Within 48 hours of posting the index page was in the top ten, this week all (four) of the pages have hit the top ten for their keywords (2.4mil to 8.9mil results). Each page has 3 internal links, and between 25 and 65 external links, with only a para. description from linked to site, if any. No unique text, two inbound links to the directory, and excessive outbound links. GO FIGGURE...

Not sure what to make of it. Thought it might prove helpful to someone.

Justin

[nzmatt]

Cache is up from where I am - PR still down.

Mysite is also finally out of the sandbox at present, after 9-10 months! Haven't done a thing to it in that time except some inbounds.

Wow...I'm out of the shadows!

[Andreals]

If you disproportionately link a lot of different, off-site pages, more than your own internal pages, you look a little like a scraper site and get a little penalized (with some exceptions apparently, like if you're over 4 yrs old).

I have over 400 pages, PR0 to PR6 each with over 100 external links (some with 500+) and have suffered no penalty. It was first indexed by Google in May '02--maybe the cutoff is three years. :)

I do extensively hand edit my pages but to a bot would look like a scraper...

A.

[nsqlg]

One domain of my site (have two) has sandboxed in this updade, but googlegot keep crawling very hard, why? :-/

[appicat]

Pange rank down, and its not just me.

Now I can stop trying to fix things I aint broken!