Let's Dispel 3 Google Myths.

[ronniethedodger]

You are right Minstrel. I have removed the slightly more offensive parts from both the quote and my reply. My apologies.

Is the robot exclusion part PG material though? ;-)

[minstrel]

Originally Posted by ronniethedodger

You are right Minstrel. I have removed the slightly more offensive parts from both the quote and my reply. My apologies.

Is the robot exclusion part PG material though? ;-)

Works for me...

[greeneagle]

Let's just repose, but I do want to know what janeth meant:

janeth wrote:
"So you could have a pr8 site but Google would not have any idea where to put it."

I just don't see there being any possibility of that these days since GOOGLE indexes everything in a site. Unless of course you could have a PR8 without any; html, pdf, asp, jsp, hdml, shtml, xml, cfm, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, or wri.!

Ken

[janeth]

That was my point greeneagle pr has very little to do with it..


It takes all that other stuff.

[marknc]

Our website www.madaboutjewellery.com, up to recently, held the the number one position on Google for a particular keyphrase and was invariably listed on the first page for other keywords and phrases.
Now it appears that this number one position has dropped back to the third page and for other keyphrases we are all but lost.
Can anyone tell me where I might find detailed information as to how the Google algorithm has changed, what these PR numbers are all about, and what I need to do to redress the situation.
For example we have about 40 mini-sites (one-pagers set up to draw targetted traffic) pointing to our shop. We also have a duplicate homepage under the co.uk domain extension. Is this now a no-go area and will it count against us?
These are things I need to know as around 47% of our visitors come from search engines of which 98% are delivered by Google and Yahoo.
Any help very gratefully received.
Mark