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]

HUH?

Tropical Island, go ahead and make fun of the guy, but he's going to own the terms "micturate" and "insensate catharsis" in the SERPs. :-)

If you know the motives it is much easier to explain something and play according to new rules.

Activeco, just how do you propose to know Google's motives?

[oldpro]

japanese,

There are HTML GURU sites that are also in oblivion. Wild guesses is no way to adjust or to create a website.

Properly formed html is not a wild guess with any event...it is a matter of good practice. If it takes a bot 5 or more seconds to crawl a page because of trying to reconcile errors...I am certain this cannot help that page during a major algo change.

[Clint]

Another thing Clint...
I admire hellebourne for asking for advise as to what steps she can take to remedy her situation...and the fact that she is not afraid to allow some us examine her source code.

Oh, and I have not? That's ALL I've BEEN doing!

Before you start making generalized assumptions that correctly formed html is not a valid reason for some sites taking a hit...you need to know that facts regarding her specific situation.

EXCUSE ME. Well I DO know them! I know her site! Now, let's cut with the bashing. Not a person here is NOT making "generalized assumptions". If you happen to have some FACTS then why not please share them with others so others won't have to make "generalized assumptions"?
Thank you.

[activeco]

Activeco, just how do you propose to know Google's motives?

I don't know about Google's motives.
I was trying to justify the talk about it.

[Clint]

True it a certain point. However, not all html syntax errors are fatal. Some are. Most of the time JS does not validate as it is not recommended by the W3C. Does not mean it will inhibit the crawl. My post to hellbourne concerned "fatal" errors as a bot sees it.

OldPro, can you please explain? Are you saying that JS could possibly be the cause of some removals? I added a JS shopping cart a couple of months back. But at the time and weeks after that I didn't see any G SERP's changes.
Thanks.

[helleborine]

Clint, Google's own AdSense code is Javascript, and was giving me false positive errors in the validation.

We are desperate, and hanging on to the frailest hope.

[bobothecat]

GoogleGuy’s desiderative here is to micturate an insensate catharsis on behalf of google.

HUH?

Someone's having fun with their thesaurus :)

[theBear]

I can translate but the WebmasterWorld filters would change it ;).

[limitup]

I agree with a lot of what japanese said. I am not sandboxed but my primary site doesn't show up in the top 200 for any main keywords. I am in the top 10 for all of these keywords on both MSN and Yahoo. I spend over $2k a day advertising via Google AdWords. Do you think they are going to "correctly" rank me where I belong and risk losing that $2k a day in revenue? Hell no they aren't.

I know GG and others have said that paid ads have no relationship to natural SERPs, but I don't believe it. And no I'm not bitter, really I could care less. We make plenty of money because of Google, and we're happy about that. Sure we would probably make more if we were ranked in the top 10 where we belong and didn't have to spend so much on adwords, but we don't really care. It's just the idea of the whole thing that pisses me off.

By the way, has anyone noticed that the priot backlink update has been rolled back AGAIN? Ugh.

[edited by: limitup at 5:39 pm (utc) on June 3, 2005]

[Meta_Vision]

micturate an insensate catharsis

Ah, just the poetry I've been longing for
amidst all the prosaic protuberating ... :)