My site is still in hell. I am still not terribly worried, because the keywords which I am competing for are mostly non-competitive and I can just register a new domain name and start over. I discovered just now that I still win the allinanchor: searches for my keywords. This causes me to wonder... can a site that is over a year old be thrown back into the sandbox? The other sites which have been reported to be experiencing this same phenomena are all over a year old.
Mine included... two and a half years old PR6 site with 15,000 backlinks showing in Google to the home page alone. Overall traffic and earnings are down by 60%, but we're not too worried... just focussing effort on other projects while the situation on the main site improves.
Just to poke my head in here... I'm only showing one keyword in the red today and it is in the coop. (obviously, I have a much smaller list than a lot of people here, but still...) It's only a drop by two, and my other co-op ads are showing the same results as usual.
I have partially solved one small part of my own tiny little section of the Bourbon disaster^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hupdate. Consider these two sets of keywords: 01. SIDH 02. IS-136 03. IS-95 04. HSCSD 05. PDC-P 06. MTSO 07. TKIP 08. CDPD 09. MMDS 10. RCE 01. System Identification for Home System 02. TDMA 03. CDMA 04. High Speed Circuit Switched Data 05. Packet Data Cellular 06. Mobile Telephone Switching Office 07. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol 08. Cellular Digital Packet Data 09. Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service 10. Regional Coding Enhancement I was doing very well for all of these keywords before the Bourbon update. After the Bourbon update, I am still doing quite well for the first set of keywords, but I have been completely hammered for the second set of keywords. Why is this relevant? These are the same pages on both lists. Both keywords are in the title, the h1 text, the anchor text, and the body text. Now... what is the difference between the two lists? 1. The first list exists earlier in the title, filename, and h1 tag than the second list. I don't believe this because of this case: The keyword "NAMPS" was not penalized on the page "What are AMPS (EIA/TIA-553) and NAMPS (IS-91)?" 2. The keywords in the second list are all in parentheses. OK, that sounds crazy, but it fits the available data. Removing the parenthesis from all of these pages would be a possible test. 3. Google has screwed-up^h^h^h^h^h^d^d^d^d^dchanged the way it conducts multi-word searches. That one is significantly more difficult to evaluate. It also does not match the "TDMA" and "CDMA" cases. However, it remains a daunting possibility. 4. Something I haven't thought of yet...
I didn't know of this command - does allinanchor give a good idea of where a key phrase would rank if the site wasn't sandboxed then, because if it does, I'm quite excited!?
allinanchor: searches anchor text. The general SEO rumor mill says that if your site does well in allinanchor: searches but not well in normal Google searches, it is a sign that your site is in the sandbox.
i get similar screens to you will nut it seems to only last a day Can i say you look extemely like David Brent out of The Office no offence, he's a top guy
A couple of recent developments: 1. chachi's discovery of 301 problems caused me to finally notice that the current site name and the previous site name have somehow become split into two different sites in the Google index. They have been treated as one site for about a year now. The result is that I lost a lot of backlinks. I sent a note to Google asking them to reconnect the two sites. 2. I moved the content to a mirror site and the mirror finally got into the SERPS. The mirror now ranks reasonably well. So who cares so much that the site is in hell? This points to this part of Bourbon being about off-page factors.