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Google grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

elgoog asked 3 years ago
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Google is messing around with all my sites now
@#$$%

traffic is dropping @#$%$#%##

just had to vent @#$%

ty

46 Answers
LandofOz answered 3 years ago
Dominique wrote:
What makes you say that?

In my experience, google loves outgoing links to authority sites. Google just doesn’t like mass link exchanges.

Google does love outgoing links to authority sites, but yahoo does not like this so much.

For a few months, one of my sites was sitting between positions 6 – 10 on both yahoo and google for the same keyword at the same time. I did that by having 2 or 3 outgoing links on the home page I was promoting, and by having lots of high pr sites pointing to that page.

Then I decided to do a little experiment and removed all outgoing links from that home page. I shot down many positions in google’s serps, but I shot up in yahoo’s serps. When I put those outgoing links back on my page + a few more, I shot back up in google’s serps and didn’t do as well in yahoo.

This is what leads me to believe that yahoo doesn’t like a site to have too many outgoing links, but google doesn’t mind. For me, 3 outgoing links was a good balance to keep both yahoo and google happy.

jonitas answered 3 years ago
I can imagine what a burden it must be to optimise pages for both google and yahoo.
Here in Belgium almost nobody uses yahoo. I can count the visitors I got from yahoo up till today on two hands <span title=” title=”” class=”bbcode_smiley” />

update: I looked at my statistics and Yahoo and MSN TOGETHER account for 1,37% of my search engine referrals.

It seems extremely low, but I think ppl from other european countries will get about the same percentage.

Elgoog, what about you?

elgoog answered 3 years ago
you are quite right here Jonitas,
about 90% of the europeans use Google,
in Germany the most

i havent got the time to bother about Yahoo or msm,
unless some day i have zero pages in G. maybe aaaaaarrrgggghhhhh :flush:

(btw. it’s not me havin such startpagina’s, i am trying to make a list (map) of my collegues/competitors atm.)

will you be at capeuro Jonitas?

elgoog answered 3 years ago
@Greek xxxwww.happygames.nl/gokkasten.htm is the thief

I found out his site is also to reach without www
would submitting his site to google without the www harm him?
(bad bad thinking, srry)

casinobonusguy answered 3 years ago
my website dropped from #2 to #44 in yahoo this month , cant figure that out either.I’ve yet to figure out what makes all 3 of them happy lol.If i get in top 10 in google serps i lose in yahoo , never fails.

Greek39 answered 3 years ago
Hello Elgoog hang in there my friend. I looked over the content theft last night. Currently I am trying to resolve Frictionet email spam problem. Taking a bit longer than I anticpated.

In the meantime would it be possible to post the domains from the people stealing your content? If these people are from Holland some other tatics must be used. This is CAP I believe helping each other out is the norm. I will not climb under a rock and ignore your concerns.

greek39/

elgoog answered 3 years ago
yeh webber, but i dont think its a google form, more something like a general legal thing and only for USA?

webber286 answered 3 years ago
You can fill out an official request to have the offending page removed. Can’t remember the exact name, something like “DCMA” but not for certain. Google will also remove the offending site from the index upon receiving the official request.

elgoog answered 3 years ago
more sites tanking here,
tweaked alot,
problem is you don’t realy know what it is that you have to cure,
filled out several re-inclusion reports,
found only 3 scraped pages
(worst one is a 95% copy srapersite= xxxwww.happygames.nl/gokkasten.htm,
someone has a nice attorny-like letter for me? – could’nt find it back on CAP
He doesnt answer on my polite and agressive emails, his host is only forwarding my request to him)

“hat in hand”

webber286 answered 3 years ago
Google and Yahoo say they count multiple links from a site once. Actually, their exact words to me were “diminishing returns”, which I took to mean that maybe you get a stronger link, but it is still one link. They did elaborate and say that the strongest link from the site will get counted as the one, mostly this will be the homepage of a site … for instance, some of the older posts on CAP that have received links from other sites will get more link love than the random post that no-one cares about.