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?

[valeyard]

Well we have 7 hits from Google over the weekend down from 3000-5000. Yahoo is good and steady and on topic, msn search hits are rising.

That's a key point. I've also seen Y and MSN hits almost double in absolute numbers.

Users aint as stupid as we sometimes like to think. They've seen the mess G is currently serving up and are voting with their feet.

Not just WIM, also WIG.

[Jalinder]

Bill Gates is a lucky man. His competitors do mistakes just when he wants them to.

[itloc]

For me it's very simple - if Google fails to deliver results i will block their bot. Its just accessing too many of our pages and causing too much traffic to justify the results.

For me, that is a business relationship. They read and cache our pages - in exchange they provide visitors.

If they even fail to list our website for its unique business name - their bot is just putting useless traffic on our systems.

But it's not over yet...

itloc

[soapystar]

block the Google bot because today it wont list your site..?..wow..theres long term strategy for yer!

[Imaster]

Bill Gates is a lucky man. His competitors do mistakes just when he wants them to.

Thats why I say, never panic and make stupid mistakes ;) Google has gone into panic mode.

[Macro]

This thread goes 17 pages (based on my page preferences). It's gotta be one of the longest threads ever. But, strip all the emotion out and there isn't much :(

OK, some have lost traffic, some have lost all traffic. How does it help to moan about it? There's the Samaritans for that. How does it help you to make threats against Google (there are several of those too)? <sigh> Look forward, plan ahead, discuss future strategies. You'll be doing yourself a favour. The few good posts in this thread are drowning for all the noise.

[Jalinder]

May be sites which have printable version for their articles are getting heavy penalty? Print version page of an article is duplicate content, right?

[itloc]

"block the Google bot because today it wont list your site..?..wow..theres long term strategy for yer! "

Soapy

The Gbot reads thousands of pages per day on our system. Why in the world should we allow this if we get no return? To keep hope up? To see our nice pages cached?

At the moment they even fail to list our website for its very unique name...

This is not a hate thread or so - but if they are useless ... why in gods name should we deliver them our bandwith?

itloc

[Macro]

Changing the algo must not necessary have to do with SERPS improvement, but might have to do with business ...

Speculation again :) But yes, it's not impossible. Two threads already on that subject:

Anyone planning around quarterly financial statements? [webmasterworld.com]

SERPs vs Google's earnings from Adwords [webmasterworld.com]

[limbo]

Print version page of an article is duplicate content, right?

I guess that depends how it's done. Use CSS and you are not duplicating just reassigning styles for a print version. I would use a print style sheet, not another page of content. Same goes for text only. It'll be less work to create usability stylesheets than mulitple versions of a single page for different media.

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