Domain age a factor?

[SlyOldDog]

I've seen a few posts suggesting that older domains bypass this Florida filter. I decided to check my domains which are indexed in Google. Sure enough, here are the dates the domains were registered for the first time:

Domain120-Jun-00
Domain220-Aug-01
Domain39-Jul-2001
Domain419-Nov-01
Domain519-dec-2001
Domain614-Jan-02

Domains 4,5 and 6 are gone. So are all others that we registered this year.

Note that all domains which were filtered were less than 2 years old on November 14th when the update started. Does anyone have any other data to add to this?

When I say that the domains we filtered, I mean that the index page is still in the index somewhere but was removed from the top 100 results. All sites were optimised, and so are the ones that remain in the index.

[SlyOldDog]

That is right, but none of our sites above are on the same IP

[willybfriendly]

Relevant Interconnectivity - Localrank - is the Key

If your site's backlinks are mainly from sources that do not show up in the top 1000 for your search terms, then the chances are you've been kicked out or dropped dramatically.

This does not explain the prevalence of Amazon, Bizrate, news and Directory listings in the SERPs. These do not have backlinks from sources related to the search terms in most cases, yet there they are, often in the top ten.

WBF

[Kirby]

This does not explain the prevalence of Amazon, Bizrate, news and Directory listings in the SERPs. These do not have backlinks from sources related to the search terms in most cases, yet there they are, often in the top ten.

WBF-

claus posted an excellent synopsis on local rank and I believe one of the factors that weighed heavily was how many sites YOU linked to in the cat. That could explain at least the dmoz and other 'directory' listings.