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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?

Eazygoin

10:39 am on Nov 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Good Morning Folks.

There seems to be a certain amount of flux, OR removal of pages, as the total number of search results on any given keyword has changed since yesterday on .9.104.
Also, in my case, a keyword I check, moved from position 62 to 27 overnight, and another moved from 27 to 28. In relative terms they are minor changes, but shows at least there is some movement.

Kangol

10:53 am on Nov 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Eazygoin,
I see an increase in results but the SERPs are stable.

tigger

10:54 am on Nov 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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no real movement on the results I monitor either

Dayo_UK

10:59 am on Nov 12, 2005 (gmt 0)



Tigger.

Do you still do OK in image search results?

For one of my sites I get about 10:1 ratio of Image to Normal search results. Different industry - but is not a lot of your traffic image serp driven?

It just seems crazy, and not much logic to some of the goings on.

Eazygoin

11:02 am on Nov 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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My main site is being deep crawled right now, so it'll be interesting to see the results in a day or two.
To confrim the results are moving, I was checking the word 'versace' and up until last night, the first pages had a lot of Chinese results in them. This morning [UK time] they have all been removed. So,there must be filtering of the results, if nothing else.

tigger

11:10 am on Nov 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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>Do you still do OK in image search results?

I'm about 40% down on image search comparing Fridays traffic and pre drop, why you got some cunning plan.

BTW cheers for making me look at my old figures - now depressed again

Oh another note still no movement on the spam report I put into GG - mind you he did say to watch it over the weekend so I'll keep you updated if anything happens

Dayo_UK

11:15 am on Nov 12, 2005 (gmt 0)



>>>BTW cheers for making me look at my old figures - now depressed again

Sorry.

I was just intrested in your experience with Image results.

If my site has been given a penalty for a reason I dont know about - the penalty in my case does not apply to the image results.

As Google dont look like they are fixing Canonical issues then I would still consider doing a 301 from non-www to www if I was you.

Although G does not show your non-www as an entry in the index - the non-www does have different PR and BLs.

Mountdoom

2:31 pm on Nov 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Like Dayo, Lee and tigger I'm also hoping for further beneficial flux. I'm also making changes on a few sample pages to try and improve things i.e. making title unique (no strap line), cutting back on keyword usage, introducing more content. I doubt we have been actively penalised because for some keywords we still rank top 5. I just think our shop window doesn't quite fit the new algo. Hopefully with googlebot busy at the moment, the effect of any changes will quickly become apparent.

LostOne

2:43 pm on Nov 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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"making title unique (no strap line), "

?

Mountdoom

2:52 pm on Nov 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Just a hunch originally proposed by Miop with evidence from my own site i.e. those pages with duplicate titles (all had same keyword + strap line) dropped in rankings compared to those without the strap line. Like everything else I'm trying, it's mostly conjecture and grasping at straws, but that's the place I'm in right now :-(
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