Update Saga. Part 5

[Brett_Tabke]

What say you?

Over and done with?

All done all through?

[reseller]

followgreg

>>....this time I'm about the give up...I don't get it :(<<

Its the FLUX my friend :-)

But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on these babies too

216.239.59.99
216.239.59.104

[edited by: reseller at 11:19 am (utc) on Nov. 19, 2005]

[followgreg]

Ahhh reseller I like so much your optimism!

I think that after 2 months of update, my girlfriends almost left me, I don't work anymore, I don't sleep anymore, I'm toying that damn engine all the time....I see the nervous breakdown coming! LOL

[Kangol]

"By the way, some of you may want to check out: There are lots of NEW DC's which people don't seem to be watching ;-)"

Tell us a few...

[tigger]

anyone noticing cloaked pages popping up(UK RESULTS)? the keywords I monitor have been clean for months (until J3) now the tops slots are taken with cloaked doorways and one even had a Trojan as well, don't you just love these webmasters!

[steve40]

Tigger,
Often when I have seen this it seems like G lets the crap settle at the top of the pond to look at it in detail and then just scoops it out of the pond
not always happens but seen it a few times over the last few years updates maybe that is what they do with the small serp quality checking team

It's easier to spot and investigate at the top than delving top 5 pages down

just a thought
steve

[econman]

I'm beginning to think multiple, distinct phenomena are being diagnosed with the same "sandbox" description/name.

Certainly some of the symptoms are as similar and as different as the symptoms of the flu and of colon cancer.

[King of all Sales]

colin_h

The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not trade links.

This isn't a question of morality or even of ethics. It's a question of Google making the rules, then changing them but only penalizing randomly.

Google made linking the key to rank in the first place, and now they say some linking is good and some linking is bad but they are ambiguous about it.

Meanwhile, sites that are participating in the most blatant and cynical link schemes are ruling the serps. I know of one site that is participating in the cheesiest link network scheme and I followed Reseller's instructions and filed my report and guess what? They are still enjoying prime first page real estate for a very important key word while I play by Google's rules and sit in the middle of the third page.

It's interesting to note that I enjoy #1 and #2 spots for MSN & Yahoo respectively for that key word and the above mentioned site is nowhere to be seen.

It's Google who is not behaving ethically here and if it doesn't change, it will come back to bite them in the a$$.

[almar]

Does anyone have a solid clue about the Sept. 22 keyword "now ya see 'em, now 'ya don't" rules?

J3 or whatever the new version shows some non-US movement suddenly, but barely enough to be hopeful.

[tigger]

I completely agree with you King of all Sales

I don't have a problem with G moving goal posts just seems so unfair on webmasters that have been involved with linking for years to be now losing out to the real spammers. Maybe its time to pop out to that hat shop and get hold of that black hat I've been doing my best not to put on for years

[colin_h]

King of all Sales

Maybe it's about time to lift the "no specifics" rule for one large "name and shame" forum. I've spotted some ridiculous attempts at boosting over the past 24hrs and the sad thing is it's working ... google is listing them. I just think they're waiting for us to report the obvious cheats and they then limit the workload.