a few questions about google

[webcruiser8]

1. Does IBL from PR4 and above carry more weight?

2. Does the number of years a URL is registered affect the PR?

3. If there is an age filtering, how long is the
average waiting time?

4. What is a good key word density for google?
and do you get punished if it is over the average?

5. What is the good number of pages for a site (in
google's mind?) 100 pages too more, 10 pages too few?

6. Is the recent update done? It seems took about
a week or so, and many still not done. Seems a very
major one.

[greeneagle]

webcruiser8,

You ask a lot of questions of which all can't be answered difinitively. I am particularly interested in #6.

Have you seen significant changes in the last week or so?

Ken

[webcruiser8]

Originally Posted by greeneagle

webcruiser8,

You ask a lot of questions of which all can't be answered difinitively. I am particularly interested in #6.

Have you seen significant changes in the last week or so?

Ken

Yes Sir. Speaking for my own sites, one of them went
from PR3 to PR4, and when search the kw in the page
title, it showed up 1st place. This might mean the
site came out of the sandbox, because the site used
to be found nowhere even if searched with the exact
words from the page title.


I think it is a major update for :

1) it took a long time
2) my site hasn't moved PR for long time until this one.
3) I saw some other forum post that web sites are
released from sandbox with major updates


comments and feed back are very welcome.

[greeneagle]

webcruiser8,

If you have been around WPW before, you'd know I don't believe in an automatic "sandbox" or "time delay" for any site. Why don't you provide a URL for us so we can have a peek at what you are talking about?

What happened to your WWW button? If you want to discuss your site, that would be the #1 place to start.

Thanks,

Ken

[webcruiser8]

Originally Posted by greeneagle

webcruiser8,

If you have been around WPW before, you'd know I don't believe in an automatic "sandbox" or "time delay" for any site. Why don't you provide a URL for us so we can have a peek at what you are talking about?

What happened to your WWW button? If you want to discuss your site, that would be the #1 place to start.

Thanks,

Ken

Ken:

Thanks for your reply, the url is www.iwmwaterjet.com
All the questions posted in the first message
refer to this site.

If you or anyone could shed some light, I'd really
appreciate it. I wonder if I did something wrong
(not knowingly) so that google is not happy and puts
me in the sandbox.

I hope I could get more visitors from regular
google search, I am doing ppc currently.

[scanmonkey]

Your title and description are too long. Title should go about 70 characters and descripition generally, 200 to 250 characters may be indexed. Keywords should be mentioned no more than three or four times i.e. Waterjet

[scanmonkey]

If you believe then the sandbox is there. Otherwise don't worry about it and it eventually will go away.

[Mel]

Originally Posted by webcruiser8

1. Does IBL from PR4 and above carry more weight?

2. Does the number of years a URL is registered affect the PR?

3. If there is an age filtering, how long is the
average waiting time?

4. What is a good key word density for google?
and do you get punished if it is over the average?

5. What is the good number of pages for a site (in
google's mind?) 100 pages too more, 10 pages too few?

6. Is the recent update done? It seems took about
a week or so, and many still not done. Seems a very
major one.

It seems that most of your questions were ignored webcruiser. The following are my opinions only based on a few years observations and lots of investigation but you should still understand that nothing is 100% certain when it comes to search engine algos:

The PR of the page a link is from affects the PR score given to the linked page, but does not affect its ranking power in the case of anchor text links.

The number of years a site has been registered has no effect on PageRank.

According to Matt Cutts there is no age filter but there are several other filters in use which produce the effects ascribed to the sandbox. Many sites escape this filter and many do not.

Google does not use keyword density as a ranking factor. This has been so from the very start when they set up the sytsem of assigning progressively lower scores for each successive repetition of the word to the point that after a few repetitions they are essentially valueless.

The correct number of pages for a website is as many as you need to cover the subject and no more, but it is a fact that large dynamic sites with thousands of pages do seem to do very well.

[webcruiser8]

Many thanks for your reply.

Originally Posted by Mel

The PR of the page a link is from affects the PR score given to the linked page, but does not affect its ranking power in the case of anchor text links.

Here I am particularly interested in whether google
gives more credit if a web site of PR4+ gives my site
a IBL. Is this true?

Originally Posted by Mel

Google does not use keyword density as a ranking factor. This has been so from the very start when they set up the sytsem of assigning progressively lower scores for each successive repetition of the word to the point that after a few repetitions they are essentially valueless.

Does Google penalize for sites with high KW density?
If yes, what is considered high?

[faithhawaii]

...the pros who hit my e-mail with their great wisdom every day! Sign up for this if you haven't!

I haven't posted in so long i had to re-register, but i can not tell you how valuable the daily news has been in these many many years.

1st, (and i beg your pardon for who first posted these 2 META TAG in the webpronews, i cannot give you your wonderful due!)

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL=INDEX,FOLLOW">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days">

(and then you better have updated something in those 15 days if you want them to keep coming back, just move some text around on the page, if nothing else.)

Gentlemen you have got to TELL your robots what to do! This was the best, (well, in the top ten!) direction i have received from webpro! Sorry I can't remember who to thank!

(Then i like to get Yahoo to send me an alert when my url shows up on others pages. This at first freaked me out, being on sites that i didn't consider to be family fare. But then, it cannot be helped and any link i guess is a good link.)

Seriously, it has to be content and number of pages filled with content, i am up in the hundreds now and it is eclectic, invites many different persons and offers many and varied and TRUELY UNIQUE services and products.

I am sure it must be hard designing for your product. But that is what good web design is about, isn't it.

It behoves us to understand that part of the 'web-experience' is excitement and BEAUTY! Find someone who can create an active machine shooting water or something. A bit of color. Or streamline black and white... something?

Finding many new ways to actually say your real business name which describes your product.

Hope some of this helps...
faith

[cbp]

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL=INDEX,FOLLOW">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days">>meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days">

They are both useless meta tags and never work, let alone help.
The robots do the first one by default, so it does not matter if you have it or not.
The second one was developed for a small regional SE based in vancouver and is ignored by all other search engines.

CBP

[faithhawaii]

Now I remember why i don't post on forums here any more.

Someone is bound to tell you what they think is wrong

and not mention what is right.

Whatever...

The tags haven't hurt me
I am ranked 4 in google

Just trying to help and true I got the info from webpronews's back in the '90's'

Not that length on the web matters

right?

[dannywirken]

Number 5 interests me. I have a large website about 400,000 pages and it is a new site that I am building. In terms of crawling over the last 4 weeks.

Googlebot - 1MB of data
Inkotmi Slurp - 9MB of data
Ask - 40MB of data

Do bigger sites get better ranking and traffic in the end or smaller more optimised sites?