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Anyone else noticing any major changes?
Has anyone alos had this happen, also does google ever update pr after it has updated back links.Everyone is having simlar (or opposite) experiences. For a while now there has been no correlation in the timing of any aspects that used to make up a complete update (backlinks, pr, rankings, and pages indexed)
What the heck kinda music are they dancing to?
backlinks and pr update is always after the real update. after this, people will say, why the SERPs is the same? friends, the SERPs has changed BEFORE backlinks and PR update, not AFTER. That's why the subject of this thread is 'July Update?'
I see one site go from 118 backlinks to 6440. Those links (all from one domain) have been there for months, but now Google has decided to show them. It's not a sign of the domain being "better" today than yesterday.
Has anyone tried allinurl:www.yourdomain.com?
Also very interesting results, especially if your sites are old enough. Google seems to display much more results than it used to be...I think it could also help to explain more clearly why some sites or some pages get mysteriously higher favor and higher rankings from Google.
On July 9 i first observed some backlink oddities (missing expected backlinks), but then again, it was a company and an industry i had not researched before, and (as it was during a meeting) i hadn't got the time to do deeper research, so i discarded it as a "temporary glimpse" or something.
The ODP and Google dir backlink was there, nothing else, not even internals.
(Yep, a meeting without previous research. These things do happen out there.)
Even if they decide to stick with those visible backlinks, it really means nothing. (And I still have my yoogoo link, at the very worst...)
It seems to me Google wants site owners to create page after page of worthless drivel to rank or sell it’s Adsense. Yahoo on the other hand sits in the corner censoring the meaningless content you have to create to rank in Google. I tell you the truth I didn’t set out to be Hemingway to rank well in Google or pass the supposed quality guidelines in Yahoo. But I better conjure up the old boy from his grave if I expect to do business much longer in Google or Yahoo. Any more of these strange updates and I'm about finished.
It seems to me Google wants site owners to create page after page of worthless drivel to rank or sell it’s Adsense.
From Google's Web site:
Google's mission:
Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
I don't see anything in there about "worthless drivel"--but I don't see anything in that mission statement about organizing e-commerce pages and making them universally accessible, either. Fact is, Google doesn't owe any of us a living; Google's job is to deliver the results that, in its opinion, searchers are looking for.
I tell you the truth I didn’t set out to be Hemingway to rank well in Google or pass the supposed quality guidelines in Yahoo. But I better conjure up the old boy from his grave if I expect to do business much longer in Google or Yahoo.
Try conjuring up David Ogilvy. He's a more useful role model if you're trying to sell something. :-)
I have a link in DMOZ, and have had it for years, it doesnt even show as a backlink.
Fact is, Google doesn't owe any of us a living; Google's job is to deliver the results that, in its opinion, searchers are looking for.
a one page subdomain that is simply a frame of another domain is googles idea of what the user is looking for? yeah right.!
a one page subdomain that is simply a frame of another domain is googles idea of what the user is looking for? yeah right.!
No, it's an example of "content spam" that Google needs to deal with. But it doesn't follow that the solution to content spam is to rank somebody's affiliate or order page in the top 10 for an information search.
No, it's an example of "content spam" that Google needs to deal with. But it doesn't follow that the solution to content spam is to rank somebody's affiliate or order page in the top 10 for an information search.
an assumption not implied in my statement. Also not born out in reality.
i am pointing out the effect of the latest change. How is a one page subdomain frame in anyway content spam? There is simply no content. The effect is the focus of the shift even futher to ranking on anchor text and less on on-site content with runs in the opposite direction to your original statement and indeed your followup.
I wonder if it is supposed to be making it harder on us Webmasters to find quality links...
I didn't think anybody still used G to find those anyways (at least the backlink function)
wellzy
These are oviously not the proper backlinks. Do yourself a favour and don't even look at them.
There's a certain curiosity factor, something like watching TV to see buildings and freeways collapsing after a major earthquake, for whatever that's worth for those who enjoy such things. Then there's motion picture industry fabrications for public showing in films - which could well be what Google's showing us.
IMHO they're gaslighting us again.
since the end of may the site: search had been showing several strange urls that have never existed as well as several tracking urls. Now I am not seeing these urls in the index.
I am still seeing fully indexed pages that have been 301'd for quite a while and are showing title and description of the 404 error page.
