The Official Who's Dissapointed With the last Google update thread

[ChristyB]

Alex - I understand where you're coming from - but aren't there just as likely just as many cloaked pages, redirects etc in a list of 'non-optimised sites'?

The 'google owes me' thing - I agree with you - they dont owe anybody anything - although I suppose one could argue that - since seo techniques were developed in order to give google what they seemed to want (in terms of content) it's a little unfair to penalise the people who have followed their lead!

As for their 'throwing out the whole system' every time the world figures out how to 'abuse them'... I just can't believe they would deliberately reverse years of honing their algorythms towards ultra-relevant content just to fuck with seo peoples heads - lol

I think Jay has it closest with point number 2 - I'm sure they've fucked up big time - the results are not only "super non-relevant" in many cases but still contain some atrocious spam (go figure) and they seem to have trouble with their 'page versions' - their directory listings have been flipping back & forth between up-to-date pages and lists that are months old & poor old googlebot has been working his li'l ass off for weeks

The point with the optimising scenario is that - the gist of seo opinion now seems to lean towards "de-optimising".

I'm gonna wait a while yet anyway - like most others I'm getting just as much traffic in total - just on different search terms...
I can say for sure that the terms I'm being found under are not 'as relevant' as those I've lost my listings in though - they're mostly obscure phrases that appear once in 2,000 odd pages - lol - that's progress I guess!