Google Update Bourbon Part 3

[Sweet Cognac]

Continued From:

[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]

[JudgeJeffries]

'Abandon hope all ye who enter here' ...now where have I heard that before?

[vabtz]

Last couple of days I have seen an increase inthe number of referrels for pages that have been gone for ages. Mostly amazon store stuff.

[vabtz]

GoogleGuy posted on another respected site that Google is going to be in flux for the next week. With minor tweaks there after.

[Dayo_UK]

GG

Any thoughts on canonical url improvements?

And esp when sites go url only on the homepage (both non-www and www)

Cheers - I know its late - sorry. I know you have part covered this - but any fix for sites that have the problem, timescale after 301 introduced.

Dayo

[GoogleGuy]

I did a www vs. non-www post in the answers thread. Normal time would be a few weeks. There's also some really good info here: [webmasterworld.com...]

[Dayo_UK]

Thanks GG.

It seems to be a bit (lot) longer than that though. :( - I guess I am abnormal.

Thanks anyway.

[UK_Web_Guy]

GG

This new algo that's working it's way round the dc's - part 2.5 of the update - is it based on older more stable data? or is it bang up to date data?

Someone posted it might be the former as you have suggested this was procedure in the past - can you confirm?

thanks

[helleborine]

MikeNoLastName - my site isn't in position 15...

I'm on PAGE 15!

Believe me, I'd be shutting up and counting my blessings if I had only dropped to page 2.

I'm still not seeing any changes in DCs. Still two same stale sets for results for "helleborine's spinning widget plans"

[Will Spencer]

I never really cared about search engine spam before this Bourbon "update" -- because the spam always seemed to show up below me in the SERPS.

Not anymore. Now that search engine spam is placing ahead of me in the SERPS I'm going to be filing hundreds of spam reports with Google.

Hopefully Google will fix these horrible new SERPS in some future "update". I had a technical issue at work this week and I had to go to Yahoo to find a page with the information I needed.

[helleborine]

This is an actual letter I received yesterday. I want to post it to illustrate that it's not just webmasters with vested interests that have noticed a sudden drop in the quality of the SERPs. Regarding my fictional search term "free spinning widget plans":

Dear helleborine, I spent some time last night using different search engines. Using Google I found you as a link after 160 others. Lycos was a no go after 125. Yahoo brings you in as #1 and is the engine used by Netzero and Juno. I don't know what's up but Google should get a life. It seems to me that all of the sites shown are folks selling "spinning widget" supplies first and "plans" as an after thought. As far as I'm concerned Yahoo is the engine to use.

Not my words, folks.

Bourbon's effects are noticed by Joan Surfer.