Update Allegra - Google Update 2-2-2005

[illusionist]

My site which came back on december 26 update, seems to have disappeared again on this data center [216.239.53.99...] . Its notwhere to be found even in allinanchor, allintitle etc? I see majot change on that data center, is this a new update?

[george123]

its really funny to see mostly with those .co.uk "directories" that they affiliate with ...spot...ing....(same old junk) that come and go like the wind on every G update

[twebdonny]

Just to keep you informed. I have recieved responses,
personal responses, from both Adsense and Adwords and have
written back more info concerning this update. If you
haven't written G yet, I suggest you do, they are listening.

[RichTC]

No they are not listening, the first line will say Hi blogs, blah blah and the three or four paragraphs after will be standard text answers.

It only looks like a reply. If they were taking any notice they would change the Algo to rate sites according to content for once.

[suggy]

It's probably been said already, but...

This update ain't done yet

I have noticed my pages creeping back up again on my key terms - with no change to the cache.

From page 4...to page 2.... to no.10.... to no.7....

Slowly the inexorable rise of quality through the ranks of dross begins...(at least until someone at Google twiddles with that knob again....LEAVE IT!)

You can't keep a good man down (I hope).

Hope?

[Galtego]

The state of things as they are now makes me appreciate the huge difference in traffic between being first or second in search results and being fifth, sixth, or seventh.

[hunderdown]

I almost posted that I was seeing no changes at all for my site and the three main keyword phrases I monitor. But I've checked again and I was very pleased to discover that my site is now #1 in the SERPs for two of those phrases and #2 for the other--that's a notch or two up for all of them.

So I like this update, and (knock on wood) have been happy with Google over the past year, during which referrals from Google have been steadily if gradually increasing (probably partly due to gradual addition of content to what remains a smallish content site.)

[Hanu]

Convenient list, imaster. Thanks a bunch!

[robster124]

What's the general concensus on what factors Google is changing this time?

[europeforvisitors]

Could it be that those people who weren't hurt have huge sites and numbers of internal backlinks?

My site isn't huge, but it does have a large number of internal links. It's an editorial site of about 4,200 pages, a few dozen of which might be termed "affiliate pages" (mostly annotated hotel listings). And it hasn't been hurt by Allegra. On the contrary: Traffic has climbed by about 25% in the last several days, and the ratio of Google referrals to Yahoo and MSN referrals has also climbed back to where it was until a couple of months ago (when the Google:Yahoo/MSN ratio began to erode slightly).

In examining my server logs, I haven't noticed any surprises; as far as I can tell, the same pages are in the top few dozen spots. My rankings for the keyphrases that I track have hardly budged, and most of my neighbors in the SERPs are the same ones that I usually see. I assume that much of the additional Google traffic is coming from upward "ranking creep" on hundreds or even thousands of minor searches.

The one slight oddity that I've noticed in the SERPs is the displacement of my #1 ranking for "[ship name] photos" by a self-described "personal site" that I'd never heard of. The page that knocked my [ship name] photo gallery to #2 for that keyphrase is a directory page consisting of unannotated links. The directory page's PR is 2, the personal site's home page has a PR of only 3 and an Alexa traffic ranking of 206,378. The entire site, which came out of nowhere, consists of virtually nothing but unannotated links, which makes me wonder if outbound links are now a scoring factor. (FWIW, I have plenty of outbound links myself, so maybe that's helping me in Allegra.)

[skippy]

I can't see a pattern. It seems random.

Patience young grasshopper we are still a dancing.

Even Tsunami fundraising sites couldn't escape Googles warth!

Well for all of you POed about google right now there is your revenge. A couple hundred bucks on PRweb should do the trick.