If your site is effected by this Event...

Discussion in 'Google' started by mcdar, Oct 17, 2005.

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If your site has been effected what category would your site fall under?

  1. Commercial - Sales on site

    36 vote(s)
    38.3%

  2. Commercial - NO Sales on site

    11 vote(s)
    11.7%

  3. Informational - Sales on site

    16 vote(s)
    17.0%

  4. Informational - NO Sales on site

    28 vote(s)
    29.8%

  5. Other

    3 vote(s)
    3.2%
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  1. nedguy

    nedguy Peon

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    #21
    My site is lying dead in the water right now.

    It is an independent travel directory, listed in dmoz, 100% unique content continuously updated, not script-based, charges for review, has no reciprocal links, no affiliations, and has been online since June 2003.

    Since yesterday not a single one of my fifty keywords on Digital Point, many of which were ranking 1 - 5, is alive. "N/A" across the board. It is a sea of red numbers. Traffic has plunged by a third.

    All previous google shake-outs and directory culls have left me un-touched. Not this time.

    (I am sickened to see competitor sites taking over top slots in SERPS on destination keywords using pages with no content in them!)

    Hope that helps, mcdar, but I'm dammed if I can see a pattern.

    PS. Sorry, forgot you wanted the dmoz path. Recreation/Travel/Guides_and_Directories
     
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  2. Jim bob 9 pants

    Jim bob 9 pants Peon

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    #22
    here is my path

    Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > England > Regions > South West > Travel and Tourism > Accommodation > Guides and Directories

    Google position is......... 450 ish on best KWs from 1-6
     
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  3. monosodium

    monosodium Well-Known Member

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    #23
    you mean weight attached to links coming from those sites. sure hope it's temporary. it would explain what i've been seeing. the question is, which sites have been flagged, and why?

    G and i probably have a different philosophy on this, but if i were G, i'd trawl all the major link exchange systems and bust the domains that are members there. if the idea is to punish people who seo too much. hmmm... that would actually explain why a lot of sites have been re-sandboxed but not banned. but G's philosophy is too let the algo handle things and not meddle with it.
     
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  4. werebear

    werebear Guest

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  5. Roman

    Roman Buffalo Tamer™

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    Non commercial, no sales. no DMOZ.

    SE traffic up 300% in last 5 days.
     
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  6. monosodium

    monosodium Well-Known Member

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    new serps must be inversely proportional to domain length. mine are all too short! :D
     
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  7. mobilebay

    mobilebay Active Member

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    commercial sales - submitted to directories dmoz etc

    still havent left sandbox well no PR or kw recognition except for URL not cached either since 23 rd sept


    also sitemap on google seems to error on pages that no longer exist or are listed on google sitemap

    no change

    any ideas ???

    launched May 2005 - Ra\nks V well in Yahoo Msn , Never traffic from google

    approx 190 pages asp . htm
     
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