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Update Saga. Part 5

         

Brett_Tabke

8:26 pm on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

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What say you?

Over and done with?

All done all through?

tigger

4:15 pm on Nov 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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cheers guys - me having a thick day today!

WebPixie

4:17 pm on Nov 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I know it a bit late, but I agree with you tigger about natural one way links in relation to commerce sites. People very rarely naturally link to commerce sites.

And the site is suppose to be designed for the user. How many people shopping on my site happen to have a related website and will happen to point a link at my site even if they think it's the cat's pajamas?

stateless

4:18 pm on Nov 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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64.233.183.99 is also experiencing changes right now. Every so often is returns 66.102.9.104 results. I don't think it will be long until they all return jagger3 results.

newwebster

4:24 pm on Nov 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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mightbe followed up by flux

The current j3 still looks incomplete to me. I still see supplemental hijacked content outranking the orignal pr6 page content. In fact what is missing is the long tail searches that come from the content and the keyword(s) combination. Google looks very shallow at this point.

tigger

4:29 pm on Nov 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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WebPixie

yep "if" this update is going against the recp links then how in hells name is the guy with his little ecom site supposed to get ahead! write wonderful articles about how great his Kitchen website is and HOPE people link to him

It seems like this will push the little guy out of G and over to MSN & Y which considering how much better there serps is (IMH)I hope the public start making the move as the serps I'm currently looking at are just favouring ebay & amazon

It makes me wonder if this inst G's plan so they move away from displaying the stores & various affiliate sites in favour of the more authority information platforms so turning G into more research platform, bit like the old Northern Rock days and maybe Y & MSN will become the shopping SE's?

King of all Sales

4:33 pm on Nov 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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One of my competitors is on page one for a fairly competitive term (15 Mil) on all DC's. They just recently went from PR5 to PR6 with Google showing 1700+ backlinks.

The interesting thing is that many, if not the majority, of these backlinks come from a link network where you agree to show 5 or 6 dynamically generated links on any one page. The links will change completely every time you refresh the page. So the pages that Google has listed as backlinks for this site no longer contain a link to that site.

When you guys talk about link networks are you referring to static link farms or dynamic links as I just rather poorly described?

BTW, I reported this to Google but so far, nothing has happened.

colin_h

4:36 pm on Nov 18, 2005 (gmt 0)



I think that Google realise that the public really like Ebay & Amazon. Google seem to be offering the big names first because it will seem more relevant in the eyes of searchers. It's an obvious move if you value your visitors pleasure over that of the websites that you list.

taps

4:40 pm on Nov 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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oops - did anyone check matt's blog recently. Seems to be broken.

What a day. Another source of information down. Googleguy is missing somewhere. Matt is at Pubcon AND offline. Where is somebody who can tell us anything.

annej

4:42 pm on Nov 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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My sites don't seem to have been hurt by reciprocal links. People here have wondered why some sites haven't been hit by a penalty on this and I have some theories abut why.

1) The recips have dribbled in over 2 or 3 years.

2) I have a great number of one way links to sites/pages that give added information to people in my field.

Many are imbedded in articles or listed at the end of related articles.

I have a directory of hand picked, non recip, links to excellent sites in my field.
(BTW, this directory ranks ahead of dmoz and Yahoo for the phrase, "widget history directory")

3) There are a number of one way inbound links to my sites.

4) There is no consistency in anchor text as people who have linked to me have just set the links up however they please.

5) All recip linking is to and from related sites.

6) The site is basically content with multiple articles on the topic.

webdude

4:44 pm on Nov 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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annej

I am with you on this. I have several with recips and have seen very little movement with this update.

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