Google Full Dance is On

[T Pat]

Every Time Google dances I freekout and post here crying about my lost SERP's then I slowly get them back
So I wasn't going to look at any stats this time until the dance was done and things settled back down
The slow down in new members in the last week or so changed my mind
last month I had over 15000 search engine hits (Tijuana related), If it stays like this I'll be lucky to get 7000 this month

Hey Fred are you optimizing your sites (meta tags, using keywords etc.)
You might want to play with word tracker and find a key word phrase with good numbers and low competition and build a few free sites useing those keywords

[f69j69b]

hi Pat yea I do the meta tags, alt tags everthing i have read about search engines nothing ever happens. I had a good listing before this last change on one of my free sites it was #2 for plump rump but it only lasted a few weeks then the hits stoped coming. If I depended on search engine traffic to make my sales I would have had to quit this biz a long time ago.

Fred

[Osiris]

If this dance isn't over yet, I hope it's over soon.

I did some google monitoring today and it was insane, every 30-60 minutes listings would go from one place to another.

I had a few nice listings that I didn't have before the dance only for them to vanish again later on.. google is making me dizzy!!


I also noticed that I have some REALLY high listings in Yahoo.. I wonder why the traffic isn't as much or as good?

[Bjorn]

this sucks

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by Mr.Andersen

this sucks

Well Said

[Rorschach]

Originally Posted by Osiris

I also noticed that I have some REALLY high listings in Yahoo.. I wonder why the traffic isn't as much or as good?

Y! doesn't have nearly the search market share that G has, although if you separate out the traffic normally Y converts better...

It's the same every update - the spam dominates for the first few days, then filters get applied and the people that try to do legit SEO get a few days of traffic, then the fresh spam takes over again.

[GeorgeTH]

Originally Posted by Rorschach

It's the same every update - the spam dominates for the first few days, then filters get applied and the people that try to do legit SEO get a few days of traffic, then the fresh spam takes over again.

Now that's what I call an optimistic outlook - so we can never win unless we re-tweak our pages constantly (for which I don't have the time - - - unless I don't build/submit anything new anymore)...

[GenXer]

Ahhh, hence google adwords. I use them every once in a while. I know nobody wants to pay for traffic, but the ROI (return on investment) is VERY nice. I always make a nice profit off of Google adwords when I need to get some extra traffic.

[Osiris]

Originally Posted by GenXer

Ahhh, hence google adwords. I use them every once in a while. I know nobody wants to pay for traffic, but the ROI (return on investment) is VERY nice. I always make a nice profit off of Google adwords when I need to get some extra traffic.

I've heard several people say that if you don't know what you're doing with GoogleAdwords to not even bother unless if you have a few hundred to spend testing the water out..

[cellinis]

Has it stopped? (I hope not!) Over last four days I have lost most of my Top ten ranks and I still haven't bothered to check for the second, third and fourth page ones :-( I now type Pornography Times or "The Pornography Times" and I have a bunch of sites mentioning me and linking to me, but by own site is nowhere! It still indexes over 7k pages, but most of them are listed as urls - no titles, no nothing.

[Wazza]

Lightening my wallet and arse fucking me at the same time doesn't please this little black duck. It's one or the other goog - not at the same time...

All adwords campaigns suspended here.

[plateman]

Its not over yet there is still a BL update floating out there, seen it 3 to 5 days ago but I think the damage is done and we will have to wait till the next one whats bad is if we make changes we might be worse off..

[Leon]

does anyone know if there is a time that G's datacenters show identical information about SERP's or BL's ?
since the dance started i've been checking it thru this tool
http://www.mcdar.net/q-check/datatool.asp
and i dont see any constnat progress there like some datacenters actually will stop dancing and stay with 1 version of SERP's or BL. so i'm just trying to undrestand is there any perioud that all data centers shows same info ?

[Osiris]

Google fucked my traffic up big time for one of my sites. Cut it almost in half..

[SEO_Konsul]

a lot of problems came up for our customers. but we think that we have found a way to bring our customer sites back to their positions.

[shert]

January was on fire for me i was getting great se traffic all of a sudden by february it's been dropping I'm starting to worry about my ranking and presence

[hony]

Originally Posted by cellinis

Has it stopped? (I hope not!) Over last four days I have lost most of my Top ten ranks and I still haven't bothered to check for the second, third and fourth page ones :-( I now type Pornography Times or "The Pornography Times" and I have a bunch of sites mentioning me and linking to me, but by own site is nowhere! It still indexes over 7k pages, but most of them are listed as urls - no titles, no nothing.

Same symptom a couple of my sites are having -- apparently this is happening to a lot of people. :-(

Luckily there are more than one search engine out there -- not to mention other ways to get traffic. It pays not to rely upon Google too much.

Hony

[DrSmut]

Is it still going on?
Because i see major jumps in SERP every day.

[SEO_Konsul]

Originally Posted by DrSmut

Is it still going on?
Because i see major jumps in SERP every day.

there are always minor adjustments everyday

[Linkster]

DrSmut - they have three different indexes out there right now and they are rotating them while they do some click tracking - should get back to normal by this weekend - and then we should see the normal "fresh" updates every day - although after this last update that looks like a very corrupted database I wouldnt be surprised to see them do a full update very early in March

[hony]

Or maybe they'll just keep changing things every few minutes to keep us on our toes? :-)

Hony

[Linkster]

OK - so I was a little wrong on them waiting till early March - looks like they are bringing in a new index and new backlinks - either that or they have done a complete rollback - but something is up this afternoon

[plateman]

Linkster what data center has the newest results

[Linkster]

Plateman - I havent figured whether they are really new results yet although 66.102.7.147 has different backlinks for Yahoo than the rest - pretty much all datacenters seem to have some new sets of results but they are all mixed up as to the number of results - most that I can see right off the bat seem to have a greatly reduced index - but thats how they usually start - then add in more as it goes along - I usually look at the results for a search on "sex" - normally runs about 330 mill - last number I saw was down around 64 mill earlier today as the new index started appearing

[zack2004]

I think they tweaked it until it didn't work and now they can't unfuck it!