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Note to mods: Please, delete if I'm wrong, I hate it when people cry wolf but I was always told the link counts were the way to tell....
Nick
My site was created in July (first part) it was spidered & indexed at the end of July and debuted at #10 for my main phrase.
When I check www2 and www3, it is NOWHERE to be found for that phrase now (it is in www2 and www3, though, it just won't show for that search), **BUT** on www, when the dance started, it initially moved up to #7 for that phrase and now has moved up to #6 for it.
I'm really afraid it will get dropped b/c of the www2 and www3 results being totally non-existent for the past 2 days.
Since it's moving up in www, do you think I should just ignore www2 and www3?
zeus
Location: London, UK
Shak
I have very similar situation right now with several of my sites. No real explanation as of yet. Googleguy has said that at least one of my sites has no penalty. I suspect it's the same for all of them. This leads me to believe that the new algorithm is so different as to have obliterated the rankings of my websites.
The advice I have been given, and that I am passing on, is to hold tight and wait for the dance to end. Then simply keep working on good content and links.
I can't believe we'll be down forever. Who knows, maybe the next algorithm will place us in the #1 position.
Crazy stuff!
sune
Is this a penalty???
Also showing no back links on www www2 www3 :(
[edited by: mack at 11:17 am (utc) on Aug. 25, 2002]
I have the same problem a PR0, I dont think it is a penalty, because then they would delate you out of the index.
zeus
I would like to introduce myself as the newest member of the PR0 club :(
Does greyed out tool bar indecate penalty?
Your Directory page shows a PR5 on my browser (in Lancashire UK)
It can indicate either:
a) The site has not been indexed by Google. This could be due to your server being down at the time of crawl, insufficient links or another technical glitch.
or
b) You have been removed from the Google index for rule infringement.
It is unusual for (b) to occur - it is more often (a) and you may well appear next time around. But if it is (b) - someone at Google needs to lift the penalty for you to re-appear. (b) is not the same as a PR0. PR0 sites remain within the index and usually continue to be spidered.
Google this update has put more weight on recently updated page. I'm finding a lot of my categories suddenly clean of dead sites that hadn't been updated in a forever - which is a GOOD thing as they'd been cluttering the results for a forever.
Dropped people - had you updated recently? You might find that you haven't been penalised, just.. cleaned out, as Google didn't know if you were uptodate anymore. Try updating, and see what happens next month.
Me, I like these new results. Personally, I'm sick of trawling through websites last updated in 1998 to find a site that's still relevant. Much nicer this way :-)
Me, I like these new results. Personally, I'm sick of trawling through websites last updated in 1998 to find a site that's still relevant.
Google indexes pages, not sites, and I think it's highly unlikely that:
1) Google would raise or lower the placement of a page according to its age (since an older page on an "evergreen" topic may be more relevant than a new one); or...
2) Google would find it practical to monitor how often a *site* was updated (or a home page, for that matter) and apply that information to individual pages throughout the site.
I'm still seeing no sign whatsoever of my site in the results for my main phrase on www2 and www3, but I've moved from #10 to #6 on www.
I got zilch for Google referrers this afternoon, but got quite a few the last 1/2 hour, which leads me to guess that she's still dancing.
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