Google Update Bourbon Part 3

[Sweet Cognac]

Continued From:

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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]

[rise2it]

hellebourine - you're right, they're better than the REAL results.

Much better.

[reseller]

GoogleGuy

There has been several interpretations to this line of yours:

- Then there will still be some minor changes after that as well.

I myself wish to ask whether that means that the serps shall be "everchanging" or what I call "The Rotating Algos" ;-) as in the case after allegra update.

Would you be kind to elaborate more?

Thanks

[edited by: reseller at 6:00 am (utc) on June 2, 2005]

[GoogleGuy]

Just go down to the bottom of the page and click "start a new topic".

I did, but it's pretty intricate to set up a "only one person can post" thread and Brett is out of town. Here's the last one that we did, for example:
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[reseller]

GoogleGuy

Hers is your "only one person can post" thread. Pls go ahead

[webmasterworld.com...]

[GoogleGuy]

reseller, currently, a few data centers have some different data that should be everywhere in a few days. I'll keep people posted on the status of things, and collect feedback closer to the end after things are settling down more. I'd expect that things will be back to their normal level of everflux by New Orleans. But we do have incremental indexing after all, so it's normal to expect a certain amount of change to the index every day or so (aka everflux).

In fact, everflux is a pretty good analogy. If you go back to summer 2003, update Fritz was the beginning of the transition from a monthly update to an incremental index. It caused a lot of comments, because plenty of people were happy with an index that only changed once a month. A lot of the thickness in my hide started with Fritz during summer two years ago. :) Summer in the northern hemisphere is often a good time for a search engines to work on revamping different parts of our system and improving our quality; typically search engine traffic is lower in the summer due to seasonality. So the summer is a good time to think about things like bringing in new signals of quality and ways to rank pages, plus doing things like reorganizing our webmaster pages, etc. etc.

[reseller]

GoogleGuy

Thanks for the detailed reply. Much appreciated

>In fact, everflux is a pretty good analogy.<

Ok. So I´m gonna call it in future "everflux" instead of "everchanging" ;-)

[MikeNoLastName]

"Bourbon having sent my absolutely adorable website to SERP #15, better known as the red-light district."

Heh? You're worried about #15? I'd be THRILLED to get BACK to #15 where we were before this update dumped us to #93!

[steveb]

Increased dependence on signals of quality would be great, and the apparent major changes many of us have been hoping for for at least a year coming this summer could be terrific, if only as a break from the unrelentingly mediocre quality of the recent past.

The current serps have some just plain terrible conceptual problems (ranking straight redirects is never good for example), so it will be interesting to see if coming changes do remove this garbage.

Then perhaps with the longer hours of sunlight this summer, the folks at the 'plex will be able to find the authority knob at last....

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"a few data centers have some different data that should be everywhere in a few days"

I sure hope these a new somewhere and not any on mcdar, because none of those could be called better than poor.

[Natashka]

The storm is far from over.

I just hope the second half of this storm gets me out of the sandbox.

me too, but I've almost lost my hope :(

[vabtz]

I am seeing a signifigant differnce in rankings for this DC:

[64.233.187.104...]

When compared to most ofthe others it looks as if it has less backlinks.

Also it seems to have fewer & different directories in the top.