Update Saga. Part 5

[Brett_Tabke]

What say you?

Over and done with?

All done all through?

[CainIV]

I have yet to see keywords in the domain name account for any ranking bonus in our sites, only in Y! and MSN.

In answer to an earlier question, I have been reciprocal linking with some of our sites right thru all of the Jaggers.

[steveb]

There isn't the slighest ranking difference between www.site.com/1/word.html and www.anothersite.com/word.html

It makes no difference at all.

Keywords in URLs of course help somewhat and it is a pure "white hat" way to optimize. There is nothing more natural than having a page about apples and calling it apples.html

[MarkHutch]

I just noticed this thread is still going on. Wow, how long is it going to last?

[Gimp]

This thread will last as long as people continue to enjoy prolonged mental masturbation.

[Gimp]

I have been looking at my problem. It seems to be duplicate content. I have many hotel pages all of which have a basic format with some changed details. Those pages can't be changed to satisfy some algo.

So I am moving them to a throwaway domain. I will set up doorways in my main site to go to the new pages on the throwaway domain. The doorways will have content and refer people for details to the throwaway domain. The throwaway domain will get penalized.

This will also be done for catalog pages. For example, a catalog of similar products has a standard format with only some changed details. So once again one gets hit with duplicate content. So they will be moved to a throwaway domain and doorways made in the main site.

We tripped over this accidently when we noticed a new site, with no more than 20 pages of content, all of which referred back to a main site started ranking well while the main site has stayed where it dropped to in June. To make the main site rank, we will now move anything in a standard format to a new throwaway domain.

Any comments on this? Are there any better solutions?

[tigger]

From GG msg#: 288 - tigger, it'll be gone by tomorrow or so.

Thanks GG the offending site has been completely removed, now if you could just do the opposite with my site I'd be a happy man

[Pico_Train]

Tigger - Nice one GG!

Stilll loads of movement going on but it's slow . I've checked two DC's regularly this one - 66.102.9.99 and .104 and things are still being "crunched" as far as I can tell.

Still problems links in and anchor text, PR and other variables have not yet been fully factored in.

Also saw the sponsored ads at the bottom.

How do you say? Crap!

[tigger]

>Still problems links in and anchor text, PR and other variables have not yet been fully factored in.

what? do you have anything to back this up? I can't see how G would have left an update running this long without pulling these calculations in

[Pico_Train]

For several searches, one of them has just changed for the better.

Specific anchor text for a link from one page pointing to another page. The page with the link ranked better than the other page on the topic. A few of these I've run into over the last few weeks.

[reseller]

Good morning Folks

What to do on a Sunday morning other than start your day on The Mother of All Forums, The Greatest Forum on Planet.. Only on WebmasterWorld .. Forum 30

And I see a happy tigger today :-)

>>Thanks GG the offending site has been completely removed, now if you could just do the opposite with my site I'd be a happy man<<

I told you folks that GG & Matt mean business this time regarding removing spam and spammers of the index.

Please allow me to post this little shameless anti-spam promotion spot. Cleaning the index of spam will bring benefits for all of us.

Folks! Don't wait to send Jagger-related spam feedback; I'd send that now. Using the keyword "Jagger3" at [google.com...] will get someone reading and checking it out.