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BillyS
"I've been staying clear of these threads but my traffic is up 40% since Wednesday"
Are we still talking about your same "watching the grass grow" site which had lost traffic in 2005/2006?
[edited by: tedster at 10:35 pm (utc) on Jan. 2, 2008]
SiteExplorer shows a whopping total of 27 pages on the site, and a rather underwhelmng total of 17 inobund links to the entire site.
Three of those 17 IBLs are from the same blog.
Two are from .cn scraper sites that SiteExplorer reports can not be found.
One is from what appears to be a remotely hosted links page operated by their SEO firm.
The site has a PR of 2, and no data from Alexa is available.
It was registered 4 years ago.
Almost like it was picked from a hat by random and promoted to page 1.
The #6 sites didn't seem to be affected.
[edited by: tedster at 3:03 pm (utc) on Jan. 16, 2008]
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I'm seeing some huge movements this morning for a 13 year old site with many totally irrelevant sites, as in absolutely nothing to do with the search query or at the least very tenuous, and most (90%) of the previous encumbants gone...whoosh, disappeared or demoted several pages.
I'm doing nothing, I'm losing no sleep over the goons' inabilities to stop tinkering at the plex, they've not been able to control anything for ages now and this just goes to prove it even more.
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Let's wait a couple of hours I feel sure they can screw-up something else whether intentionally or not:-)
However, my traffic has dropped quite a bit. Don't know if there are less searches being done on my subjects, or if I'm not ranking for nearly as many long-tail terms.
The original traffic to my sites is nothing great anyways, so it's really hard to tell on my end....
Recent changes in google really drive me crazy : almost all traffic is gone now.
Have good links, sites in google for half a year, PR4-5.
Have anyone noticed what changed?
[edited by: tedster at 6:11 pm (utc) on Jan. 17, 2008]
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I don't know how Google's local search works, but some of my visitors are coming to my site typing:
yada yada yada [US area code]
yada yada yada [US city]
yada yada yada [foreign country]
Google ignores the location and brings them to me.
Thanks, but why?
If someone deliberately seeks a location-specific product/service, and my site has no location definitions/keywords/etc., the user is being misled and their time is wasted.
Instead of Google saying there are no results, or making a suggestion the best alternative it can imagine is my site, it is leading them straight to me. Why make those kind of assumptions?
p/g
A subdomain of our main site and another of our sites (both very tasty content and web 2.0 sites) have had the PR bar turn gray and are suddenly showing no pages in the google index.
Very, very strange times.
It appears as if Google is totally losing the plot but my gut tells me this isn't the case. We're just a couple of stages into a much bigger event.
And the fluctuating hits and the nature of those fluctuations are not like anything I've seen recently.
So, i had almost 100k backlinks to my site, BUT all were with nofollow tag.
At the beginning of jan all those .pl sites were removed by hoster. So, backlinks are gone.
Question : could this lead to my -950 penalty? i thought that it`s not easy to dump the site with external factors.
noticed that my site : www.example.com is not shown on the fist page for 'example' keyword. first ones are good sites, who link to me with url in ancor. Sitename is rather unique.
What can it be? Google hate me or what?
has anyone else seen the huge difference in pages returned when using the site: operator
my sites showing:
site:www.example.com 512000 pages
site:www.example.com/ 196000 pages (no *)
i'm still looking at the different pages showing but as i can't see all of them its proving difficult to analyze them, i'm seeing some changes on other sites but nothing as huge as my pages returned totals.
can anyone throw me a bone on the different totals is the lower total my non supp pages or is it a glitch.
Vimes.
[edited by: Vimes at 6:51 am (utc) on Jan. 19, 2008]
I see a much larger (and a more accurate) number when using the "/" at the end of the url site search. It more closely reports the number that I see reported in GWT.
I find it odd that you see less (or is that a typo?).
[edited by: kamikaze_Optimizer at 7:14 am (utc) on Jan. 19, 2008]