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Google: There was the Florida and now the Austin
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sean Burns wrote:
Hi Steve
The only reason I can think of is that it's easy to get a really high keyword density with a 5 word phrase (or 4 that Google counts). The keyword density of that page was probably higher than any of my others. That coupled with a 100% match on anchor text, 80% title match, 80% H1 match must have triggered a filter (I assume).
Sean Burns


But surely this is what is so crazy about this situation. If a page has a theme, e.g. a review of a particular product, why shouldn't it appear in the title and heading, and with a link to the site in question?

If this continues, the SERPS will be meaningless, returning all sort of stuff that just happens not to look optimised.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Sean, what about the speculation I've seen that "product pages" are being filtered out because Google wants them in Froogle?

Debs, that's possible. I don't think they have started filtering product pages from their normal results yet because most are still showing but long term, I'm pretty sure they will do something along those lines.

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But surely this is what is so crazy about this situation. If a page has a theme, e.g. a review of a particular product, why shouldn't it appear in the title and heading, and with a link to the site in question?

If this continues, the SERPS will be meaningless, returning all sort of stuff that just happens not to look optimised.

"Guest", that's one of the problems at the moment. They appear to be deciding that a particular page is "not useful" based on factors that don't effect it's usefulness. You're quite right about that particular page that I used as an example - the Title, H1 tags and so on just describe what it is. It'd be a bit chaotic if we had to start "not really" telling our visitors what a page is about.

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Sean Burns
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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If this continues, the SERPS will be meaningless, returning all sort of stuff that just happens not to look optimised.

I think it's fair to say that this won't continue.

Google is going through a "period of change" - we are being experimented on.

In a while things will stabilise again, and we'll all be singing Google's praises again for a few months or longer.

Just my opinion,
Charlie.
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