Google Update Bourbon Part 3

[Sweet Cognac]

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My whole site has a new cache date of May 25th. Maybe once these other sites around me get recached, I won't hold such an honorable top position. But at least Google has found my pages worthy to sit in the Search again.:) It seems strange to look at the stats and see Google in there, after 6 months of just seeing Yahoo and MSN referrals.

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]

[rise2it]

Like someone mentioned about 10 pages back, everyone is doing a lot of wheel spinning on this one, just like many other G updates over the last 18 months.

Remember tomorrow is a holiday - there's nothing you can do but get high blood pressure from this.

Go spend some time with your family - visit some old friends, etc.

This crap will be here when you get back.

What makes this board great is that it's full of highly motivated people that can 'run through walls', but remember the old saying:

"God, grant me the wisdom to change the things I can,
Accept the things I can't,
and the wisdom to know the difference."

Don't forget what's REALLY important in life...

[kwngian]

The changes this few days in the algo doesn't look good.

Looking at the number of crap referrers in my log file, I believe the scrappers are having a field day yesterday.

[Interent Yogi]

I have done Beyond Good for a site that has been AWOL for a year . A white hat site that is where it should be.

[max_mm]

The changes this few days in the algo doesn't look good.
Looking at the number of crap referrers in my log file, I believe the scrappers are having a field day yesterday.

I'm seeing the same thing on my logs. Scrappers traffic galore.

Google's (new) engineers have turned this search engine into a scrapper buddy. A good example of the very sad direction they are taking the entire web nowadays.

What a freaking sad mess GOOGLE is turning to be. From the smartest search engine on earth to the dumbest hit and miss indexing erratic bug i have ever seen.

Thier mission statement of “organizing the information on the web” looks like a worn piece of toilet paper after this latest update(s). Seems like they need to first orgenize the process of decission making at the plex. It feels like mess it looks like a mess....it must be a mess.

[edited by: max_mm at 4:41 am (utc) on May 30, 2005]

[MikeNoLastName]

"perhaps a new thread starting "how to manage your "company when google changes"? "

Perhaps a new thread entitled, "how the US gov should take over Google as a mismanaged, monopolistic utility and threat to the world's economic well-being which needs to be supervised and regulated."

"oil for rankings" anyone? :)

BTW, first reports are in on our latest experiments... One page which had dropped 80 places... I took off all the external links and Adsense on it a couple days ago as reported on this thread. It was respidered yesterday and today is up 8 positions to 77! I am now restoring the old page to see if it drops back.

[annej]

I have a smaller site, related in topic to my big site but less formal. The larger site is doing as well as ever if not a bit better with Bourbon. The smaller site has dropped (all its pages are not doing as well as before in the serps).

I'm trying to figure out what is different about the two sites. I do much more internal linking on the larger site that is still doing well. That is the only thing I can think of.

Is there a thread yet for analyzing update Bourbon?

[reseller]

I just wanted to wish our American Fellow members a Happy Memorial Day

[steveb]

Hideous set of results just appeared on 64.233.171.99

Almsot like you have to be a redirect to rank, prefereably with 100,000+ blog links.

[max_mm]

I have a smaller site, related in topic to my big site but less formal. The larger site is doing as well as ever if not a bit better with Bourbon. The smaller site has dropped (all its pages are not doing as well as before in the serps).
I'm trying to figure out what is different about the two sites.

Give it more time. The second site will also disappear the minute you gain enough redirects and incoming scrapper links. Enjoy the ride while it lasts.

[McMohan]

Just saw 2 of my sites go from oblivion to #1 over at IP ranges -

64.233.171.
216.239.57.
64.233.179.
64.233.185.
64.233.187.
64.233.189.

Those 2 sites are in two unrelated segments, and that makes it interesting.