Update Jagger, Google Update Oct 18th, 2005

When can we expect a new PR update?

[jretzer]

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

[Dayo_UK]

Lol - thanks for your help GG. :)

[GoogleGuy]

'Night. :)

[normasp]

normasp, there's a way to tell us about the hidden text. Just do a spam report (search on Google) and use the keyword jagger2.

Thanks so much GoogleGuy!
I'm happy now but I'm scared of next jagger3 too..

[McMohan]

Good night GG, how unkind of Google to not only webmasters, but also to its staff ;)

[Dayo_UK]

normasp

Dont be scared be excited :)

If your site is clean and Google fix a couple of bugs then hopefully there will be nothing to be scared off.

[jaffstar]

In the past , you owned keyword.com , sites started linking naturally to you, due to the fact that your keyword was your domain name, after time, you became an authority on your keyword and you ranked at the top. “Google Utopia” or how they intended things to happen.

Then, people started buying/selling text links to manipulate their rankings which I am sure annoys the **** out of Google.

I monitor various sectors, and have completed extensive analysis on the following:

I am noticing that sites with a high percentages anchor text “keyword” in their back links, above a certain % are getting excluded in this update. Old sites that ranked well in the past are also gone. You will notice that these sites normally have natural one way links, and their keyword/domain was used in the text/anchor link, which caused the majority of their anchor text (keyword) to be similar.

On the other hand, sites that go on a wild hunt and get 1000’s of backlinks have a similar pattern with their backlinks. Yes, the majority of the anchor text is above a certain %.

All sites that are in the top 10 that I analyzed, are below a certain %.

So what you are seeing now is old authority sites moving down the serps and sites trying to manipulate their ranking also getting hit because they were above a certain % for their keywords. Sites (good or bad) are thrown into the evil pit.

You will also be noticing that sites that are now in the top 10 are actually NOT that relevant due to the fact that they have a very low % of keyword in their anchor text links. In same cases if the site is an authority it will rank for a keyword, but there might only be one instance of that keyword on the page.

It worries me to nice the majority of sites in certain sectors actually not being relevant, sub-pages outranking homepages in the top 10.

All guilty in Google’s Eyes. But this will definitely hurt the text link market.

[McMohan]

jaffstar, good analysis. Along with anchor text, did you see any pattern with respect to link structure (2-way, 3-way link exchanges), links from authoruty sites, etc?

[cleanup]

Just a thought regarding people with muliple sites interlinking between them for mutual benifit.

If these sites were all using Adsense from the same account would it not be easy for google to make the connection and ban/filter the sites?

[jaffstar]

Some sites who engaged in Reciprocal Wars got hit, but then again they aggressively targeted a high % of anchor text.

But in terms of linking patterns, there is no pattern, that’s why sites who engaged in reciprocal linking got hit, as well as sites that had pure 1 ways.

[erny]

"people with muliple sites interlinking between them for mutual benifit. "
Like GG sayed make a spam report and it really works!
I was so happy to see a super spammer with tones of pages ,he disappear today from top possitions to nowhere to be found in thousands of search results.Good Job Google.
If we want to keep the web clean we have to spend more time to discover spammers instead of moaning here why our site has been drope ,if our sites are clean there is nothing to scare.