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GeorgeTH,
>>I just thought somebody has to tell them they got it wrong...
There are a couple *1000* messages on webmasterworld.com telling them that every day.
Unless 25% of page 1 results are very much off topic the average surfer will just never know or care.
Lots of speculation from some very smart people, but it's all just that.
This is a radical change that caught a lot of people off guard and plenty of clean sites have been wiped from the results.
In the top two AdWords for phrases *all* companies were removed from the results where they had previously held the top spots.
Let's be honest- Google became a virtual monopoly and now they can do what they damn well please. Average surfers will continue to think Google is good unless drastically off-topic results are shown.
The only good thingis that once Y! swicthes to Ink a good chunk of the pie will be split up.
They have some really sophisticated, but immature technology via their purchase of Applied Semantics.
Nothing seems to make sense, and what is reported from one person is countered by others.
Even people who have been posting and reading there for 3 years are trying to gain a hold on the new results.
Probably the most disheartening posts are from people who were sqeeky clean and worked thier asses of playing by the rules and their sites have vanished from thier primary phrases. POOF.
If the results stick more than not- this is an entirely different animal that requires a very light touch of optimization as we know it and more natural linking only from related sites.
Themes.
The entire 'get links with anchor text in your phrase' is dead...if it sticks.
Someone reported some changing on a datacenter resembling pre Florida (as this update has been come to be known) results.
But I didn't see any changes last I checked around 7PM.
Then again it would be Google like to come out with some new filters/algo changes on a Holiday...
<shrug>
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