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Kackle - can you explain the "dictionary" for me? And how I might benefit from it - Im reading your posts hard but dont see where youre coming from.
Sure. But you have to act quickly. Google will fix this one just like they fixed the hyphen.
1. Google is depreciating pages/sites that are over-optimized for certain keywords or keyword combinations. It does this by looking up search terms in a dictionary of target keywords or keyword pairs that it has compiled. This dictionary is Top Secret, because if you knew what was in the dictionary, you could avoid these words in your optimization efforts.
2. If the search term or terms hit on a dictionary entry, the search results for that user's search are flagged. This means that before the results are delivered, the order of the links, or even the inclusion of links, are adjusted so as to penalize pages that have overoptimizated for those terms. Most likely the title, headlines, links and anchor text are examined. It's possible that external anchor text pointing to that page has also been pre-collected and is available for scanning, but this is much less likely. (Besides, external links are not something within your immediate control, so don't worry about it right now.)
3. You want to find out which keywords that are relevant to your site are in Google's dictionary. Compile as many relevant keywords you can think of that searchers might use to find your site. Now take these words singly and in pairs, according to how users might search. Run two searches for each combination and compare the results.
4. If the results are strikingly different for the pre-filter and the post-filter search on a particular term or combination of terms, it means that some variation of those terms has been flagged because something was found in Google's dictionary.
5. Do lots of searches and you can come up with a list of "sensitive" words that you'll want to avoid when you re-optimize your pages.
It's a nice weekend project.
This nonsense about the -dhstahf on searches was blown out of the water by mfishy in message 770.
My site overall has faired fairly well in this update. The only place I've been whiped out completely is on my productname/moneykeyword phrase.
I have a support forum pointing at my index page with a graphic link and a text link. This in essence points 100s of pages at my site with the title from the pages and anchor text from the text links being productname/moneykeyword.
I also use my productname/moneykeyword for recip links.
Is it any cooincidence that my only completely missing keyword combination is productname/moneykeyword?
Unca
But this is clearly *not* the tail end of Florida - it is a new update.
I don't see how these two searches could possibly be returning the same results.
Check your priorities, I mean SERPS, for that one.
Do the same search for: expensive jewelry or discount jewelry. The results closely parallel allinanchor, but are not precisely the same.
"New User" posters should be paying attention to the isolated posts from members here who have more than 500 posts to their credit, instead of latching onto whatever bizarro idea some newbie concocts.
Pure hubris. How about those of us who lost our posting privileges on WebmasterWorld over a year ago for being too critical of Google, and are now using a new name?
Does anyone know how much more traffic I can expect if I move up to #312? ;)
? Why would you even think to compare those two numbers. They have nothing to do with each other.
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"How about those of us who lost our posting privileges on WebmasterWorld over a year ago for being too critical of Google, and are now using a new name?"
LOL. Thanks for driving the stake through your own heart. I guess its not the new results bugging you then huh?
Google worship has been the fashion, until it all goes wrong.
It's an electronic version of the mob really.
allinanchor:keyword1 keyword2 keyword3 are completely different from keyword1 keyword2 keyword3 -yuti -fgrd
- I think many of us are going to be eating Kraft Macaroni and Cheese for X-mas.
