Originally posted by Classics
Google’s database, at least in the gambling areas, is dramatically less filled with spam than pre- November 15.[/quote]
Agreed – but it is still a step backwards from pre-Brandy.Quote:After a couple months of much better results we seem to be getting a lot more lightweight results, like a lot of be-the-dealer garbage “sites” appearing for most terms.Exactly – some of the same junk – or type of junk – appeared.
Quote:Just because something is new doesn’t mean it is good, and in gambling at least new very likely does NOT mean good. I would guess that this is what Spearmaster is not liking, a sort of revolving door of new sites ranking high then dropping, only to be replaced by another new bit of lint. At least Google doesn’t have the problem with redirect sites that Yahoo does now.It’s not just that, I think – could be wrong but I see some similarities in both Yahoo and Google which are very disturbing – such as one particular .ro site which is totally useless but has about a million or so links to mostly unrelated stuff. And I would assume that those other sites reciprocate probably because it’s the same webmaster.
That .ro site was nowhere to be seen pre-Florida – and if I recall correctly only surfaced again on Google recently but well prior to Brandy.
Quote:Anyway, I think in both cases, today doesn’t matter. We are going to see significant changes in both soon. Google’s pagerank will probably update in the next day or so, then a few days after that I’d expect to see a significant change.
We shall see indeed. I think you’ve put together a fairly decent summary of what appears to be occurring… thanks.
Janet – that is pretty damn similar to what I am going to feed Google if it doesn’t shape up quick LOL – but not with my main sites, of course 
Content is king if you’re human – but definitely not if you’re a search engine robot.