Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
First step would be wait until it is live - then perhaps you can see what G favours.
Why? God knows because some of it was plain old junk. (i use the word old because i think G has given older sites an extra tweak no matter what their content)
I dont think anyone minds a site listing above them if its on toppic and in the same league or possibly a better authority than your own.
What i hate to see is loads of directory sites ranking above sites that are about the search term. If i want a directory i will go to one. If i want information about relevent sites about my subject i use a search engine.
Yesterday G had it right in the UK, now its almost as it was prior to the update - pointless exercise imo.
This DC is definately updated and has serps from yesterday when I was refreshing (and they appeared briefly)
Some spam has also been removed
Serps look very , very good