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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]
I read the most recent couple of posts saying that things had turned to garbage in the past 24hrs etc, and thought 'it's been crap for awhile'.
I just took a look and it looks like there was a spam avalanche, or a spam tsunami - so much computer generated trash on so many search terms!
Wow Google, way to go 'sport'.
maybe I should have qualified "garbage within the last 24 hours".
While PR was gone, the serps looked the best since bourbon began. Now we have stinker garbage than the garbage google has been serving up for us since bourbon began.
Suppose it is the case and there has been no admission of it publicly, why would a billion dollar baby go and admit the problem by running another update so soon to correct it.
I'm sitting tight, not changing anything and waiting for the next update.
Fingers crossed...
NOPE.
Many webmasters and mom-and-pop biz owners are dying.
Google is doing just fine - raking in the millions each and every day, and they'll continue to do so regardless of how bad their search results are.
'Joe Average Surfer' WILL continue to use Google (even if he's disappointed) because that's what he's been programmed to do.
In fact, 'Joe Average Surfer' will give up on finding what he's looking for, rather than go use another search engine like Yahoo or MSN ('IF' he even knows how to go to another engine).
Most of us here 'live' on the internet, but 'Joe Average Surfer' doesn't - he's still afraid of technology or 'pressing the wrong button', and will only do what little he is comfortable with.
Human nature....people resist change...
So thats good, not over yet, my site I disgussed before has been unchanged in the rankings for the past 1.5 years, so I doubt it will change, even though currently it has. Meaning when its finally done, I expect Ill be right back up there.
The same 3 word query on multiple data centers:
Results:
1,920,000
2,080,000
1,480,000
1,870,000
2,180,000
1,390,000
1,890,000
Seem like there is still a little discrepancy.
Justin
