Update Saga. Part 5

[Brett_Tabke]

What say you?

Over and done with?

All done all through?

[texasville]

Well checking .99 I saw for my site:mysite.com for the first time ever my index .com page returned as first in the list. Before I had long time dead pages that I have excluded in robots.txt as first.
Now it's a nice neat clean indexing except for the supplementals still exist at the end of the list.
Over the past week I have seen a little traffic from google. msn is still main player in my logs.

[tigger]

>I saw for my site:mysite.com for the first time ever my index .com page returned as first in the list

OK daft question time what does that achieve?

If I search for site:mysite.com it pulls up nothing but my site and 27,000 other pages from within it so what does this mean?

[Eazygoin]

re <title> tags
I ran a test on Monday, adding a keyword to my title tag. By Tuesday I was indexed at 29, for a 20 million keyword search for this word. I had never used this word before, but also placed four examples of the same keyword, in the content of the homepage. My title tag is reasonably long, and includes main keywords, and my main site is indexed on page one for all sorts of conjugations of these keywords. So I believe title tags are extremely important. I also believe that Google is super efficient in picking up on new content.

edit>> My homepage has been cached with an updated date, 3 times this week.

[taps]

Cache doesn't work here (served by [66.249.93.104...] Don't know if this might me Jagger related...

[Ankhenaton]

OK daft question time what does that achieve?

If I search for site:mysite.com it pulls up nothing but my site and 27,000 other pages from within it so what does this mean?

Utterly useless... I have seen this too.

I am just happy that today someone told me independently that has no idea about technology that the G search results were cr@p and she ignores the first page now :D.

That would be historical context searches

[tigger]

cheers Ankhenaton

funny a builder friend of mine said the same when he called round today saying he was trying to find something on G and in the end went over to Y and found it on the first page

[Eazygoin]

The main thing I am noticing, is consolidation on DC 66.102.9.104 whereby sites are being either deleted or placed further back in the index. This in turn, means the remaining URL's are moving forward.
I see this as a very positive move for the sites that deserve good indexing, and are getting it.

From previous posts,I can also see that it is unfortunately affecting some sites that merit better rankings. However, the flux [fluctuation] continues, and the sorting will continue for a while yet, so there's still hope for those who are unhappy with the update.

[Newman]

I have just read this post on some other forum:

"I automatically generated a few hundred pages with the same text, except for different page titles and headings and a few keywords sprinkled in each page. Now it's true that Google treats it very well. I get great rankings for my target keywords on these pages.

However, Yahoo banned my site for this very reason. I wrote to them and they confirmed it."

My comment: No comment.

[Timona]

Looks like they are having trouble with the cache--or something. I noticed several sites have been reverted to old cache data, where the sites in question were last showing cached as of 9 Nov, today they are showing cache from the 4th and as far back as 30 October :o

I also noted that the cache that is still "ok" as of yesterday was done significantly later than usually. ( I have seen that they seem to come around about the same time every day, except yesterday were they were almost 7 hours "late"?

Don't know what this means but thought it was strange and definitely an indicator that something is up (problems?) at the plex, why else would they revert to two week old cache data?

[Atomic]

64.233.179.99 is totally messed up from where I am sitting. One site I have made is 100% gone and it's an ecommerce site for company with all unique content in a tiny, tiny niche meaning they sell specialized tools to laborotories. I was really surprised to see that site missing. All a site: search showed me where scraper site supplemental links that had this site on them.

Another site is all supplementals and it's another solid site I would not expect this to happen to. This "experiment" has a long, long way to go.