Update Saga. Part 5

[Brett_Tabke]

What say you?

Over and done with?

All done all through?

[colin_h]

I can't stop looking at my local results. If you put "Norwich Web Designers" into 'G' you get One Railways at number 5. Hardly an accurate depiction of their services ;-)

[phantombookman]

66.102.9.104

This DC looks excellent in my areas, at the time of writing that is, hopefully they will hold.
I tend to find they roll back slightly and become a little dull

[CainIV]

I have noticed huge changes in stemming - plural and singular searches as well as associated themed searches (ie blue country widgets vs green country widgets) Where we used to rank for associated key phrases(Google would interpret the green version as close enough to the blue version), it has now really opened up a gap. This makes acquiring links for the purposes of ranking harder for those who do it as from what I see this limits the 'scope' of the link anchor effect.

After many days of webmasters' pulling their hair out, what are we left with:

1. Serp's arguably somewhat better than before, but hearing conflicting reports that they are worse in many genres.

2. Canon issues do not seem to be approached whatsoever in this one, and supps seem as bad. There was some promise in the early stages for me, as two of my sites did get resolveed. Too many have been left behind in this matter though.

3. Spammy sites and link spam are about the same. In the end I have seen very little reduction in rank based on reciprocal *themed and unthemed* and inbound purchased link acquisition as measure on about 15 of my sites. I know this was not something that G was destined to target, but it seemed I had jumped the gun in the beginning assuming the drop was associated with trades. In the end, all of our recip linking sites returned to about the same spots. Newer sites were left slightly behind what they were.

Any thoughts, and theories?

[Dayo_UK]

Oh Hello fellow Norwich person.

If you put Norwich Football in Google you get the Canaries site first! Harldy accurate at the moment - not much football there - lol.

I am confused by this update. It looks like they have gone halfway to fixing some problems and then not carried through - I really hope that a crawl will fix the rest.

I guess if we are coming to the end of the update it is time to look out for Heavy Googlebot in the logs.

[reseller]

normasp

>>So, I'm sorry but I leave Jagger's antifans boat and I'll go to the party with the jagger's fans (like reseller, congratulations ;)) <<

Glad to hear that. Thanks.

Anybody else out there who wish to join "Jagger's Fans Club" :-)

[zimba]

I like what i see on *9*. Ill join the jagger fan club.

[Dayo_UK]

I dont mind what might be potentially developing on .9

I just feel a bit hollow that the underlying cause of a lot of sites problems dont seem to be fixed :(

But like MC - I have had enough of update talk too :(

[Daavros]

< Anybody else out there who wish to join "Jagger's Fans Club" :-) >

I have been reading this forum for the past couple of weeks. Just wanted to chip in and say Jagger does indeed rock!

[soapystar]

so now we know mc and gg are the same guy......

[idolw1]

Anybody else out there who wish to join "Jagger's Fans Club" :-)

I am :)