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]

[etraffic104]

Well, if they are done, they are for sure going to have to do another update. The search results are terrible in some places. Not that it's much worse than previous results I saw about a month ago! But still!

[BillyS]

Google posted that PageRank was taken offline because those servers were pressed into use in computing the update.

Not sure if the above is accurate or not. But GoogleGuy posted that PageRank disappeared due to a change-out in hardware.

[fearlessrick]

First, sorry to anyone who thinks the business model explanation is not relevant to this discussion (more relevant than G's SERPs these days).

As for this update being over or not over, in the same search - 4 words which appear in the page title of a key page - I've done over and over, my site now ranks 96. It was 86 last night.

For the EXACT page title, of which this page is EXACTLY WHAT ONE WOULD EXPECT TO FIND doing such a search, I rank #75. In my mind, those are not good results. This is a search for which my site ranks #1 on both Yahoo and MSN.

What is the possibility that Google will continue rotating algos or we will be in constant update mode?

Regardless, I have found that the tinkering was first an annoyance and now has grown into a serious problem that doesn't seem to be anywhere nearer a positive resolution than 12 days ago.

[nzmatt]

Friends!

You have to choose between two possible scenarios:

- Bourbon update isn't over yet after 12 days of its start.

- Bourbon update is completed. And all 3 of you are describing the symptoms of "The rotating algos"

Your choice!

Same thing, me thinks...

I mean rotating algos or DMs isn’t normal, none update, Google behavior is it?

[etraffic104]

As for this update being over or not over, in the same search - 4 words which appear in the page title of a key page - I've done over and over, my site now ranks 96. It was 86 last night.

Well friend,

BEFORE the update one of my sites was rotating between pos #1, #2, and #3 on a weekly basis. Just a thought.

[nzmatt]

Yes, but Mysite goes from # 3 to page 10 several times a day for very expensive money terms...

This is large movement - for me anyway!

As AnonyMouse eloquently agreed:

>"up and down like a *****'s drawers" might be more apt!<

[fearlessrick]

12 days and more than 1500 posts in this thread...

Does anyone besides me believe this is getting a little old and maybe we should all just hit the "ignore" button on Google?

[reseller]

etraffic104

>Well friend,

BEFORE the update one of my sites was rotating between pos #1, #2, and #3 on a weekly basis. Just a thought.<

Exactly. It all started with allegra 3rd Feb 2005 and I wrote several posts about the rotating algos theory since then.

[nzmatt]

How about the "go away" button?

[oddsod]

nzmatt, just like the "any key", it does not exist :)