Update Jagger, Google Update Oct 18th, 2005

When can we expect a new PR update?

[jretzer]

Continued from here:
[webmasterworld.com...]

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Anyone have any guesses as to when we can expect a new systemwide PR update?

[willie50]

Update Jagger seems to be a bit funny, I went to MSN dot com and it's PR is a 2 with 8 back links, the PR for one of my 7 sites went down from 4 to 3 but the rest are still the same.

But with a PR 2 for MSN do you think is web politics? or there's something very wrong with this update

[tictoc]

I am sure not seeing many changes in this update since the first day.. (if its supposed to be going through phases) I sure hope the "phases" are not over. The MSN pr should not be 2 - that tells you right there google is having issues with redirects/etc. I guess it might be funny in the way it could make Bill Gates glasses fog up. LOL.

[futuresky]

I get a pagerank of 7 for MSN here in the UK if I go to it in ie (yick) using the google toolbar...is that how you're identifying the pagerank? Not idea what ip my toolbar goes to to get the pagerank but if i traceroute to google.com from here i get 216.239.57.99. Still getting some nonsensical results from here today with supplmentals showing higher than non-supplemental results in some searches.

[bsterz]

I've gotta say - I'd like a thread with just comparisons and observations.

In that vein:
I have a couple of sites that got body-slammed. They still have high PR (for what it's worth) they have the same number of pages in the index. They no longer rank for their "pet" optimized keywords (three word phrases).
There is nothing really fancy on these sites seo-wise - just the basics.

Links:
Site 1: All inbounds - few outbounds
Site 2: All recip - no one-ways

Both sites have optmized anchor text. Neither site has more than 50 ibls.

The anchor text is broken down something like:
60% optimized
20% domain name
20% company name

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[Atomic]

I have several sites that have done very well so far during the Jaggerian Period. None of them have recip links. All white hat SEO with normal internal linking where it makes sense for the users. Carefully chosen related outbound links at the bottom of articles. None of my sites have slipped at all in ranking and the subject matter varies significantly and includes travel and finance and real estate and food to name a few. These are just shared web hosting accounts on different servers. Anchor text linking is whatever makes sense contextually and is never the domain or company name.

I also have watched my logs like a hawk and when I see a pattern in search terms I have integrated these terms in my articles. All of a sudden these search terms are bringing in a decent amount of traffic.

I also noticed new backlinks this morning and something has happened today that is increasing my traffic. Could be luck but the BL's are new.

[sonny]

seems like penalized sites end up on the last page, usually at the bottom for their main keyword.
On the last page I would expect more internal pages but I see an inordinate amount of homepages.

[Yippee]

You people need to read this...

[prweb.com...]

[news.stepforth.com...]

Please do not edit this as it is a release intended from google. The bottom line is that the word is out. It's hitting the public's radar screen.

[edited by: Yippee at 2:43 am (utc) on Oct. 25, 2005]

[steveb]

You need to read the Forum charter (when Brett uploads it again...)

[Yippee]

Delete it if you can Steveb... I'm sharing info with my fellow webbies.

[Atomic]

Hmmmm, I want to add that I haven't liked the Google sitemap concept and hand code static sitemaps for all my sites. Not only that but Google seems to really, really like them.

3 of my sites are also 9-10 years old.