Google Update Bourbon Part 3

[Sweet Cognac]

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[webmasterworld.com...]

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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]

[europeforvisitors]

My point is google is wandering away from its original objective with its organic serps if it allows scraper directories to play such a big part in its overall scheme.

There's no reason to believe that Google is "allowing" scraper directories to clutter its SERPs. The challenge for Google is how to downrank or filter scraper pages without whacking legitimate pages.

I wish people would spend less time questioning Google's motives and more time questioning Google's methods.

[sailorjwd]

On the optimistic side - things can only get better from here (for me). Is it a law of nature that Google visitor count can't go negative?

[RichTC]

Well todays UK results are a vast improvement on the previous few days. Still some data centres not updated with it.

I just hope any final adjustments dont take us back to the results we had over the weekend and the start of this week, they were plain awful. They can stay like this imo massive improvement.

This is one heck of a long update and only 4 or 5/7s (by now) of the way done!

Good luck all

[reseller]

walkman

> Then there will still be some minor changes after that as well.
Tweaking.. <

But that means that we shall never hear The Fat Lady singing until we reach the next major update (:(

[Sweet Cognac]

My Translation:

- Here's the advice that I'd give now: take a break from checking ranks for several more days.

Translation: You're driving yourself crazy trying to figure it out, and I don't have any answers yet.

- Bourbon includes something like 3.5 improvements in search quality, and I believe that only a couple are out so far.

Translation: I've been soaking in the sun, and I'm not sure what's going on yet.

- The 0.5 will go out in a day or so, and the last major change should roll out over the next week or so.

Translation: More changes are on the way... you can count on it.

- Then there will still be some minor changes after that as well.

Translation: It will never settle down.

[theBear]

sailorjwd, "Is it a law of nature that Google visitor count can't go negative?"

I think that depends on on your stats system not having a programming 101 problem in it ;).

And with that I invoke rule 4.

[fearlessrick]

Cognac, nice take. LMAO.

The Internet Held Hostage - Day 13. Have a good night.

[fearlessrick]

Just a thought on cleaning up adsense. How about taking the sites that are being routinely blocked by adwords advertisers? Put up a reasonable number, like 3 different advertisers block a site, it gets inspected, if it doesn't meet certain standards, they're out and all their other sites get inspected and could be tossed as well. Then kick them down in the serps, too.

The death penalty + banishment to hell.

[oldpro]

EFV...

I wish people would spend less time questioning Google's motives and more time questioning Google's methods.

If you read my entire discourse in this subject you should clearly gleen that I am explicitly seeking an understanding of the method by which google would dispose of the scraper problem. Not suggesting a motivation for which google would encourage it.

[outland88]

Google just swung through the areas I work in this afternoon, that seemed to go largely untouched, since the beginning of Bourbon. All I can say is double WOW. I now see what people are fully talking about, maybe worse. Except for the top ten it looks like a turnover everywhere. The area is full of a lot of junk. I’ve pretty much gone untouched since Florida but this seems possibly worse. I may finally have to go out of business.

It tickles me GG tells people to take a break. I’m glad somebody’s getting paid to take a break. Isn't it always the people who have no worries telling you not to worry. Well what can I say Google and Yahoo seem intent on squeezing every conceivable penny they can out of webmasters.