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I'm doing well in the serps for all of my keywords and googlebot hasn't been by in a few weeks (which bothers me but oh well).
I'm not worried about my site being considered spammy, it's very clean. (more so than my competators sites)
I just want to know if anyone else is seeing changes in the PR indicator on the toolbar?
(even if I have a penalty, I'm sure I'll recover. I'm not compalining, just curious)
/claus
(I actually forgot about that until you brought it up)
I was gaining some great links, that I still get hits from even today. Maybe I should start looking into that. Still, why would I go gray?
Here's one thing I did. I started writing articles for a related site, where I get my link posted as a credit for the article. The site is a PR3 right now (it's a new site and was a 0 last month when it started up), and I have a few links off of it.
I also had a "noarchive" tag for about a week which is the last time GB crawled the site. It was an experiment, and I removed it about 3 weeks ago.
hmmm... this may be more serious than I thought.
Otoh, google changes all kinds of things all the time right now, it seems. I wonder what's really going on these days. Did you use "meta name=robots" or "meta name=googlebot"?
/claus
the reason I removed the tag was that I was getting a full crawl every 6 days for a few months, then I added the tag and GB hit my homepage once on the 5th day and then nothing else on the site for almost two weeks.
then I pulled the tag. It's been three weeks and I've had one hit from GB since. Cache is now showing in the serps again, but it's the old page.
It could be that I need to just wait another week or so, that's really not a problem, but since I had seen so much activity as far as the PR changing on my sites, I just thought it was a strange reading, not necessarally anything wrong with the page.
Then I remembered that my backlinks had been dissappearing. As of right now I am showing well, 2 backlinks. One is my own home page. I have been working on links and last I checked I had around 25 showing. (The site is only a few months old)
See, now I'm worried. I guess the paranoia comes and goes... :(
I almost banned the Gbot a while ago myself - it was around the date when freshbot became deepfreshbot, and it made my average number of pageviews per IP increase tenfold. I'm glad i didn't as it did change to a lower spidering frequency eventually.
Here's another thread that mentions problems with a certain type of links: [webmasterworld.com...]
If this is the case and one of your competitors decided to try it out by linking to you from some spampage, then i'm pretty sure that this is just some weird bug that will get sorted out eventually.
Anyway, you did not mention if your ranking in the SERPS dropped, that's the most important thing. If you're still there, it's probably just one of those strange Google things that seems to happen right now. I wouldn't worry if you were still there.
/claus
As far as the noarchive tag, I think it probably flaggs your site for extra scruteny. After all the tag is used to make it more dificult for people to prove that you are cloaking. If this is the case it would explain why it would slow the spider visits.
I am fairly confident that there is nothing on the page that would be considered spam. Although I have a few competators that jumped above me in the past few weeks that have repeated keywords hidden above and below their flash content. It's the method they choose to align the movie in the center of the page. I can't believe that they are not getting dropped for hidden text. ugh... :(
Oh, well, thanks for the help.
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I just read the thread that you posted. I have been building links using the "www.mysite.com/index.asp?s=theirsite.com" method so that I can see where my traffic is comming from. I'll bet that is what is going on. I began doing this when I started with Overture and AdWords, and I liked it so much that I began to use it elsewhere. Looks like I have to do some searching to see which ones G knows about.
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The sites i have worked on that used the tracking URL for all inbound links don't rank as well as I think they should.
I have a pr 4 on my main links however when you click the categories the list of links is pr0 (a few days ago they were pr3).
Is this just a feaky google thing or sould I be worried.
The pages each contain no more than 15 links, no changes etc. The only thing that could be a problem is the cat pages are named 'links5.htm, links6.htm etc'
I sent a message to one of the main reciprocal link management software companies asking if I should change the URL names and was told it would not make a difference.
Now it looks as though it might of, any feedback would be great.
