Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Exactly. Look at the cached pages in the result. Many I seen with the search term above had maybe one mention (even with quotes) and some had none with some links that have the term pointing to it. It is kinda sad.
Don't waste time making simple things complicated. A sprinter can run the same race on ten different days and get ten different times. Who cares? All that really matters on a given day is who got gold, who got silver and who got bronze.
Figure out how to finish in the top three spots on all ten days, and the times don't matter much.
Then, if you want more gold, enter more races. ;-)
I can't believe this little burp was given a name. At least four updates in the past six months have had more significant impact, in particular the sandbox test of early January.
My conclusion is that each of the burps of the past six months have looked like calamities to some people in some niches, and were complete non-events for other people. In my niches there has been some minor shuffling, and a handful current generation of blog comment spam appearing, but aside from that, same old same old.
<It does seem somebody bumped the authority knob up from from .00000000000032 to .00000000000073, and that volume of links helps more -- two semi-contradictory things -- but not much else to see here; certainly zilch sandbox impact>
There you go. If you didn't get the gold then create a race that you will get the gold. But the person who wins the gold didn't take it away from someone else. It was the thoughts and actions that were of the greatest value in accordance to the conditions of the race that the gold was paid. Value for value.
I saw the changes happen a few days before things were reported here. Most serps are similar. But, at last, ab*ut.com has been seriously clipped. Those parasites have 5 links from their most pertinent page to our site, (incoming to different pages), and were grabbing first place in our main kw search for a long time. Now, they're where they should be, #9, and we've moved from #2 to first place. Looks good on them. I hope all of those glorified scraper sites got nailed the same.
<edit>realized they're at #9, not #8, as I first posted. Looking forward to them hitting #100.</edit>
You know, I have a theory. Google likes stemming, right? What if they took it one step further, and introduced a thesaurus into the algorithm? That way, cheap widgets, discount widgets and inexpensive widgets would all be relevant. It could boost relevancy and help eliminate highly optimized spam pages. It only makes sense that Google would be thinking along those lines.
In this dance, I've seen pages all about "discount widgets" ranking in the #1 spot (which I used to occupy) for the search term "cheap widgets". What's intetresting is that "cheap widgets" may only be mentioned once on their page. I've seen this for a few different pages. Anyone have a thought about this?
Thesaurus in Algo?
Sure it is called Latent Semantic Indexing
Latent Semantic Indexing [google.com]
Baked Jake brought it up earlier in this thread. I am beginning to think that google is slowly rolling this out across the index piece by piece that is why some people are saying what update and others are getting killed.
