Google Update Bourbon Part 3

[Sweet Cognac]

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[webmasterworld.com...]

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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]

[Clint]

Thanks, my registrar also does redirects (they call it "forwarding") for no charge. Maybe I'll try fwd'ing one name with them and see which name will show in the address bar. Right now my htacess file has in it one of these for each name:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://OtherDomainName.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://OtherDomainName.com$ [NC]

[Dayo_UK]

Clint - explain your Circumstance and ask a Question in the Apache forum.:-

[webmasterworld.com...]

[Clint]

Hello, my hosts use Linux.

[uksports]

Googlebot is on and looking for some very old pages on my site, so one guess, bearing in mind the lack of PR anywhere, is that this is a major attempt to clean up the index - it's possible this will rumble on and on as a full re-index will take some serious amount of processing - PR will return once the index has been cleaned up?

[Dayo_UK]

uksports

Is it Mozilla Googlebot - that bot has a schedule of its own. (Pages dont seem to be added to the index reliably - unless things change)

Clint

Yep - Apache forum for you then :)

[rise2it]

"Google was a lot better search engine when it only had 2.3 billion pages indexed. Six billion more pages of #*$! doesn't make a better search engine."

"MFA sites and scrapers must account for at least 2 billion pages"

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'Freedom' hit it right on the head in his two previous posts.

How hard can it REALLY be to recognize (and delete) these scraper sites?

It's pretty easy to recognize them - I can usually pick them out of the search results without actually clicking on them.

I would think anyone (meaning SOMEONE at the G-Plex) with programming knowledge could sit down in 5 minutes and write a script to delete this garbage.

Wonder if G's ranking algorithms are suffering from massive 'code bloat' over the years, kinda like Microsoft products...

[Wibfision]

Has anybody got a site that was devalued in Bourbon that does not display Adsense?

[Dayo_UK]

On the subject of page rank down, cache pages down. How are Google partners doing - trying to search on AOL at the moment and not getting much success.

Off to check Netscape etc.

Seems to be better now. Prob just temp.

[Will Spencer]

I would like to compare a group of sites which were ***hammered*** by Bourbon to see if I can identify similarities.

If your site was completely hammered by Bourbon, please private message me the URL.

By completely hammered, I mean that you had at least 100 SERPS which were in the top 5 and now they are not in the top 200.

Thanks!

[max_mm]

Wonder if G's ranking algorithms are suffering from massive 'code bloat' over the years, kinda like Microsoft products...

By how it looks right now, there are no longer any "Google algorithms" running.

This page with the big "GOOGLE" words at the middle is merely a shadow of what google used to be . This is no longer the mother of SEs, the innovative artificial intelligence many of us respected and worshiped.

What we are seeing nowadays is a broken overly patched piece of code, deviated miles away from that good old code the founders invented and shared with the world. What we are seeing nowadays is a no sense piece of crap, a mare hit and miss attempt by some new kiddos at the plex, having nothing better to do then to warm their chairs and try and justify their over inflated salary packages.

And the founders, they are out and about, busy with increasing their real estate portfolios.

Stop analysing and optimizing your sites for this piece of crap. Get it into your heads....GOOGLE is broken. Nothing to do with your pages or SEO efforts, and everything to do with a bug riddled algo mechanism, which is patched to the point were no one realy know (google included) how this thing works anymore..

God help us all.

P.S.
Do a search for "google is broken"

[edited by: max_mm at 6:15 pm (utc) on May 28, 2005]