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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.
You know ladies and gentlemen, I've been living with this stress for two years now, and frankly I've had enough. I'm certainly not paying for Adwords - I've tried them before, spent £4,000 and my sales volume increased by £3000, profit by £1000. £3000 loss.
So I guess it is probably time to pack it all in - I haven't had a single sale for 24 hours.
Huh?
>>since before yahoo dropped its own directory in favor of google.
Did I miss something?
Thought Yahoo was getting rid of Google :)
Which may explain why we have not seen him on the Florida post lately. At 56K, it would take a week to read all the Florida posts. You think they would pay googleguy enough to get broadband for his family :)
[edited by: lgn1 at 7:41 pm (utc) on Nov. 23, 2003]
>>since before yahoo dropped its own directory in favor of google.
I think you mean Yahoo decided to mix the Yahoo directory to the Google search results. Yahoo never dropped its directory for Googles directory, slight typo there.
Anyway still think this update has a long way to go :)
I just read in another post that googleguy is back home on a 56K modem.
The poor guy spends his free time in WW and all he gets is name calling and abuse. Not surprising he's taking a break, specially when he does it out of free will.
[edited by: lasko at 7:42 pm (utc) on Nov. 23, 2003]
Anyway still think this update has a long way to go
Yes - there are still some relevant sites that need to filter down in favor of the "amazons" of the world. :(
Run an affiliate oriented site? Not any more!
KW KW KWs dropped out of existance (as good as)
But the following gives #1 slot:
KW KWs KWs
So we know the middle KW is the bad-boy, it just happens to be the one everyone uses to source our service.!
We used it in adwords so yes it is used there.
I wish Google looked a bit more like Yahoogle does now. It's relevant and not too spammy. Best of all, I'm back on page one! Same with Altavista, but being top of Altavista is like being the best swimmer in the Sahara.
