Update Saga. Part 5

[Brett_Tabke]

What say you?

Over and done with?

All done all through?

[jaffstar]

Is anyone seeing zero pr on multiple sites that are standalone squeeky clean sites?

Found about 4 sites this morning, pr flux?

[colin_h]

With all the fuss recently I've been really shocked at the ratio between paying visitors and Yahoo & MSN, they seem to 10 times that of Google hits. Many thousands of visitors but very few going on to the https zone. With the other 'majors' and links it seem there is 90% less traffic but about 30% of overall revenue. Did I waste money on high bandwidth hosting?

I've spent the last couple of weeks reading the Yahoo forums and making my sites more Yahoo freindly. But as you say Gimp, it's best to avoid the algo's and look to take control.

I've approached some big local companies that I thought would never consider me for a link (no swaps, just one way in) and I've been pleasantly surprised by the results. Also considering getting new premises outside of town, nearer to our ring road, so I can splash advertising on my windows (limited in town centre).

Anyway ... I'll get back and hopefully feel less nervous when not waiting for everything to fall apart again.

All the Best Colin

[Gimp]

Our conversion ratio for Google Buyers has dropped dramatically; the Google Adwords buyers excepted.

We are seeing more traffic from the other search engines. And that is drifting upward, albeit slowly. But is says to us that something is happening.

I have no IMHO about what is happening. The patterns are just different.

In the middle of a Google Data Storm it is best just to look at the other best ways to make money that we should have been looking at all along. And we should be "inventing" new ways.

[Gimp]

For those of us who have been reluctant (cheap, smart, etc.) to buy a big web analytics program, Good Old Google now has one for you to use free in their AdWords service.

Rather than reading humble opinions about data centers, I have my people on learning how to use it. Take a look at it. It might help you solve something.

[McMohan]

g1smd

It seems that Unique meta description per page is vital more than ever now.

Ditto. My 500+ page site showed only one page (homepage) for a site:www.mydomain.com search after accidentally having same description for each page while revising the design template. Removed the Description and Keyword tags, and now shows 300+ pages. Took just about 10 days.

[normasp]

Hello people!
Another day more and Dcs are like always (I said the same yesterday)
What's happend!

[Gimp]

Since October 27, at 0300 Eastern Time, my traffic goes up to two and three times normal. By 0430 it is back to normal. It happens every day. Has anyone else been seeing odd traffic spikes?

[sandyeggo]

someone or something is probably spidering your site

[zimba]

I think GG should give us an update, he said in his last post *9* would move across to other DC's early this week and yet nothing so far :-(

[derrickcm]

In resonse to: Is anyone seeing zero pr on multiple sites that are standalone squeeky clean sites?
Found about 4 sites this morning, pr flux?

I have just noticed several web sites which I operate that are clean, and have virtually no strange seo tactics, except some minor keyowrd optimization and some link exchanges have gone from a pr6 and pr5 to pr0. Only two of about 20 web sites I have actually seem to be showing pr right now. I'm not sure if this is just me, or maybe there is a new update going on?