Update Saga. Part 5

[Brett_Tabke]

What say you?

Over and done with?

All done all through?

[followgreg]

>>zapfile:
1- the student should have bothered using msn
2- I'm happy to see yahoo useful for at least one query
3- Very soon Yahoo will be useful only for that particular query IMO - Useless search engines/directory BS updates overall :)

Hey...just IMO - not trying to say I am right, I just feel that Yahoo is soon to be fogotten and MSN keeps it up with closing by Google's algo.

[zafile]

"I just feel that Yahoo is soon to be fogotten and MSN keeps it up with closing by Google's algo."

Bill Gates said in 1991 "You have to know when to hold back. If the takeoff curve in something is very gradual, then the early guys who pay extra money and take extra risk aren't protected."

Microsoft can wait 1 or 2 more years to make MSN Search function as Gates has today in mind.

The real competition now is between Google and Yahoo.

Just think, so much money spent by Yahoo to acquire Altavista, AllTheWeb and Overture.

And so much money generated in Google's IPO.

IMHO, a site that performs well in Google and Yahoo today, is in good shape for future Jaggers.

Lets go back to topic ...

[followgreg]

Basically that's what I meant, now Y! is still important as far as traffic but soon in th future (2/3 years is soon enough) if they keep it that way they will loose their market shares.

Yap, going back to the topic...not much excitement here anymore - funny cause J3 seems to spread a little :)

[walkman]

>> Just think, so much money spent by Yahoo to acquire Altavista, AllTheWeb and Overture.

most of it was in stock, I think, so it really doesn't matter much. Y! got a small fortune from Google for the Overture patents--in addition to the revenue it gets each month. Let's just say that Yahoo was extremely smart.

[pteam]

I wish somebody would give us an update on whats goin on with J3

[Doug10]

For the keywords I watch, J3 is now producing a sizeable crop of irrelevant results. Old sites and directories are benefiting. On topic sites are suffering.

I'm shocked if this is what the Google search team has taken over a month to produce. Search results are worse now than before the update saga began.

[CrackSeo]

Never ending saga :). This Update has shown all the loop holes the world's biggest Search engine has. I am sorry Google, but you are growing to be worse & worse.

More priority for redirections, subdomains, spam.......
never ending spam saga continues......

[wordy]

<<Old sites and directories are benefiting. On topic sites are suffering.>>

Looks like the "domain age" knob has been turned up in the latest flux.

[lee_sufc]

Just had a nice suprise - google.co.uk results have improved 200% for my industry (and my site of course)...obviously things can, and probably will change but this is the first step in the right direction for my site in the last 6 weeks!

I don't know if this helps, but the changes I have made in the past week are:
1) Changed META descriptions so they don't repeat on every page as much
2) Reduced META keywords on every page
3) Changed all page titles so I don't repeat my company's slogan on every page
4) Implemented a 301 redirect
5) Tidied up my links and removed any dead links
6) Found a couple of sites who were copying my content and asked them to remove it (which they did)
7) Re-designed my website footer so i didn't repeat certain words. ie, I design things so the footer had "blue widget design", "red widget design" etc etc - so every page had "widget design" showing a lot at the bottom

Like I said, the way things have been going lately, I still expect them to change but if they star (and I ope they do), then maybe the above did help in some way!?

[normasp]

Good moorning!
What's about the jagger saga today?
It seems like if the days are always the same..