Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
>>What do you guys think? Launch or wait? <<
I suggest to wait few weeks more until Jagger3 is over.
My site is an example of this, launched in 2000. At first I didn't know enough to do SEO, and as the business has grown I haven't had time to do it 'properly'. I just do the basics like keyword research to try and make sure content can be found by those who'll find it useful. The nature of the site means that we get a lot of feedback on what people want to know about in the field that we're in. The content is of high quality much of it written by qualified professionals who can write well in 'layman's' terms.
I have beat myself up in the past for not devoting enough time/resources to 'link building' for the site. Now I'm breathing a huge sigh of relief! If anything we have seen a slight benefit from Jagger so far, but not really a huge movement. (site averages 18,000 visits a day).
I think it is this mixture of quality content, and SEO that would probably be seen as 'inadequate' by professionals that has protected us from Jagger fallout.
Thanks Atomic.
It would appear there is ongoing evolution and flux with respect to googles treatment of changing title etc.
It may well be fine, but I think I will wait until after the update, at least.
I put up two small programming example pages last weekend with plain vanilla SEO and today they are #1 and #2 out of 100 mil and 50 mil respectively.
Now I can go back to writing pages without spending all my time tinkering with possible problems that probably never existed in the first place.
During an update, its hard to draw conclusions. Better wait until Jagger is over. Your site situation might change. Who knows ;-)
Is it in progress? Or only in few datacenters?
How many datacenters does G have?
it's an interesting thing to think, but I honestly hope that they don't. I have a "related" feature that picks up a few related products (same category) each time the page loads. Why should I penalized for that? What's the reason from G's point of view? Just because some spammers do it?
Almost all news sites run "Related Stories", Latest Stories, Most E-mailed etc that definitely change between Google visits.
currently full of fake directory crap made for adsense ..deja vu ..no out bounds ..apart from the adsense that is ..
circa 2003
just noticed where previously I was showing 117 hard wired links to a small niche site ..now showing 7 incomings ..of which ..numbers 2, 3, and 4 are from a google groups thread from over 18 months ago ( running of course adsense all down the side of said thread ...sorry H ..I know I sort o promised and all but like I said I have no basic disagreement with policy at the plex ..just that being kinda old fashioned in some ways I like my PR men and women to say thats what they are ..and my enlightened self interested capitalistic companies to be open about their primary motivation ..that way I can pretend the world is "does and bunnies"....
maybe it's all just flashback ..
am I glad I don't depend on L and G and mr pension fund for my beer ( in my case vin rouge ) money ..
