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My website has plenty of outbound links, but they are on relevant pages. The problem my site has always had, was a lack of "inbound links." I got tired of searching for people to link to me (with all the spammy sites around) and gave up. So my pages have acquired some links naturally I guess(and I'll bet I still don't have more than 30 inbound links for the whole site) Still have a PR4, which I've had since it disappeared in Nov.
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 8:54 pm (utc) on May 27, 2005]
So for the last 3 days I've seen new cache dates of May 25, May 26, and now May 27. Interesting.
Sorry, if this is not helpful information
About 440 pages.
2) Outbound links
Very close to zero outbound links on the entire site.
3) Inbound links
Google says 152 to the main page.
Yahoo says 2,250.
Lots and lots of deep links.
4) Adsense
Yes. Before the update, I was making great money with AdSense.
5) Content updated regular?
Yes.
6) Adwords
No.
And... it seems to me that a lot of sites which got hammered by Bourbon were content sites which only provide information and do not sell anything.
7) Age of site?
A little over one year, at this domain name.
8) Use of no follow tags on forums?
My site had no forum.
9) Location of host sever
Fort Collins, Colorado.
10) Dedicated or shared hosts?
It's my own FreeBSD box, but I run about 20 domains on it.
11) Redirects?
Multiple site redesigns have left me with a large .htaccess file.
12) Scrapper sites linking to you / content theft?
My site targets keywords so uncompetitive that scrape sites do not find it worth their time to target me.
13) Are you listed in dmoz?
No. Been sitting in the queue there for over a year.
Waiting more than two years on some of my other sites.
14) Listed in Yahoo directory?
Nope.
15) RSS feeds on site?
Nope.
16) Pagerank ( before it dissapeared )
Site was PR6.
17) Extra domains pointing to main domain?
Old domain is 301'd to the new domain.
18) Search engine friendly archives producing same content on different urls inside site?
Nope.
19) Did you bother taking LSI into consideration with onpage content?
Nope.
If I search for my biz name (two words, and the only name in existence), in quotes: My site does show now on the first page, but LAST, and only after (in this order): 1. A bogus false incorrect hit; 2. Some sites linking to me withOUT my permission; 3. Some sites linking to me WITH my permission; 4. A LYCOS search page IN ITALY; 5. One of my OTHER field-RELATED websites which link to my main site; 5. One of my FORWARDED DOMAINS that point to my main site (which were NEVER submitted!) All rather SENSELESS considering my main site SHOULD BE FIRST, as it has been for years....until last weekend.
Without quotes it's pretty much the same thing, mostly sites linking to me (link exchange pages), but worse, I don't show until the 3rd page. Personally I do think it's great link exchange pages are showing up, HOWEVER, not before my own damn website!
If I take a line of text from my index/homepage and put that in quotes, I'm 1st but there are only TWO TOTAL hits. The other hit is a site linked to me in the UK. There should be a lot more than that (and there WERE) since some of those linked to me use this same text.
If I take a line from my <title> tag and paste it in Google in quotes, I'm the SECOND hit of only TWO HITS. First is another "link farm" type directory page (ipexpress.co.uk) which I NEVER KNEW ABOUT, that copied my title tag. Again, my last sentence in the above paragraph should hold true for this as well.
Franky I couldn't care less about my biz name, since it's just it's name.com, nor a specific line of my-site-only text, since who searches for that? What has me having a nervous breakdown is all the hundreds of previously 1st place search phrase for which I WAS found, have GONE, and in my place are bogus hits, link farms, shopping directory pages WITH GOOGLE ADS, spamming sites, sites with hidden text, etc., etc., and a whole S***LOAD of sites in INDIA! (Now I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact my hosts are from India? Hmmmmm. They are not located in India, (at least their hosting service is not), but that's where they are from. FAIK they could be in India themselves and answer email from there, and their servers are just in the US. I've been wondering about this a lot lately.....wondering if they had anything to do with me being trashed and replaced by non-relevant sites in India?)
When I search for the exact first sentence on my site in quotes, it is the only website that comes up. But, it has a new cache date of May 27.
So for the last 3 days I've seen new cache dates of May 25, May 26, and now May 27. Interesting.Sorry, if this is not helpful information
I kept searching for the first line of my website as indexed, but it looks like they index my description metatag and NOT the page content. So when I searched for the first line as shown on the G description (which is an older version of the first line or two of my home page text and a word or two different), it found nothing, because apparently G doesn't search the description metatags...
Anyway, when I finally copied the line directly from my HOME page, I get two autogenerated redirect pages from this #$@#$ site followed by my own.
Heads WILL ROLL! Grrrr!
Also please note:
When refering to the site size.. i mean the amount of k on the homepage. Is your site homepage larger than 100k for example.. maybe G doesnt like large homepages?
Looks like a lot more supplementals have been dropped. - Sometimes dancing in and out on other dcs.
Hmmm. Keep on dancing. (This is the dc that I saw for 2 seconds a couple of nights ago I think too)
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text-align:center;
}
.rss-header a{
color:white;
font-size:10pt;
}
.rss-item-title {
background: transparent
url('http://images.windowsecurity.com/li_new.gif') no-repeat center left;
padding-left: 20px;
font-size:12pt;
font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:bold;
}
.rss-item-title a {
color: #ff0000;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.rss-item-title a:hover {
color: #CE7208;
text-decoration:none;
}
.rss-item-description {
margin-left:20px;
font-family:Verdana;
font-size:9pt;
}
.rss-item-ext-date {
margin-left: 0px;
color: #ffffff;
font-family:Verdana;
font-size:8pt;
padding-center:0px;
}
.rss-item-ext {
padding-bottom:40px;
margin-left:20px;
}
.rss-item-ext-author {
position:absolute;
visibility:hidden;
}
</style>
