Comments on: Directory of home page widgets

By: doudou

doudou — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:30:23 +0000

yeah you’re totally right !

By: Adobe Photoshop tutorials

Adobe Photoshop tutorials — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:11:35 +0000

It’s definitely a great way to increase traffic. I’ll be doing a “Adobe tutorials/Photoshop tutorials” for my company’s website as well. Hope it works for that too.

By: M.A. Khamsi

M.A. Khamsi — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 01:41:51 +0000

I wanna thank Elizabeth and Matt for helping us clear a true mystery… Indeed I am one of the three creators of SOSMATH… When the site disappeared from Google we were speechless. We had no idea why.. The two pages that Matt is referring to were pure advertising. We had no idea that these form of advertising (which was the first time we tried it) was unacceptable to Google… The sad part is that we had no way of communicating with Google. We tried many many times. In any case one learns from his mistakes… Thanx again.
Mohamed

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:34:54 +0000

Elizabeth, checking older versions of sosmath.com, I suspect that pages like
http://www.sosmath.com/payday-loans/payday-loans.html
http://www.sosmath.com/payday-loans/cash-advances.html

had very little to do with trigonometry or matrix algebra and more to do with sosmath.com selling pages and links on its sites.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:09:08 +0000

Depending on how many changes you made, google could think it’s a new site.

I changed the format and design of one of my sites recently and pagerank dissapeared too. It’s a whole new site though, with a new look and a new concept, so I assume it will take time for it to come back.

As for wordpress, it’s the devil. Writing a basic CMS isn’t that hard, and you’re assured you have something unique. When I write mine, i store the page specific meta tags in the database with the page. That way each article can have it’s own page and meta tags.

I’ve also found textpattern to be a nice wordpress replacement. noslang.com/blog if you want an example of it in action.

IIRC it might even have a wordpress import module.

By: Joe Hunkins

Joe Hunkins — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:16:05 +0000

Sorry, I have no good advice Aaron. It sounds like a new site and therefore all kinds of things could be at work. For example if it started strong but then did not get any link development after several months one would expect G to lower the ranking.

I think your idea of enhancing sitemaps is a very good one. Legitimate sites are happy to give details, spammers and scrapers are not. it’s an easy and scalable way to separate the wheat from the chaff and then (hopefully) offer info to sites that are downranked for technical reasons (bad robots.txt, etc).

By: Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:39:07 +0000

Dave, I agree that not everyone can be in the top 20, but when you do a website focused on a certain subject and Google is only using you for images after 5 months it gets a little annoying. It also gets little annoying not knowing what might trigger a negative response. I also admit to being a complete idiot in choosing Wordpress blog software to try to make a compliant website, it is a mess, no meta tags, no index.html and is the software of choice for splogs.

Oh well, my buzzbox blog is showing no signs of “sandbox” because it is downright hyper. Don’t know how one could ever create such a stir about recycling food scraps! Oh well…

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:24:01 +0000

Aaron, it sounds to me like your site pages probably would have fallen anyway. I often have pages rank great for a few days only to slip back to page 5 or beyond.

RE: “I used a tool at SEO Chat that shows “future PR” as they call it and when I made these changes I saw PR zeros in 2 of Google’s data centers for my site. Tried it again on another one and same thing.”

No, you used a tool the CLAIMS to show future PR. Fact is nobody but a select group in Google know what the TRUE PR of any given page is at at any given time.

If you think about it, there are only 10-20 that can claim satisfaction with their Google SERP position for any given phrase. The other 10,000 + are always unhappy and always sceam that the SERP’s are flawed!

IMO, Matt would be totally immune to that scream now.

By: Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:23:54 +0000

I think Google needs to have a little switch in Google Sitemaps that when we login we can twitch it on and check boxes to let them know that we are not gaming the system. Adding meta tags to a Wordpress blog [check]. Adding ten new articles on “soil” [check]. You want to trust us? Increase sitemap capabilities to notify!! I was foolish to believe that in putting sitemap verification .txt on my sites it would develope a relationship with Google so this stuff wouldn’t happen.

I am going to go over to google groups and stop annoying Matt with questions he will never be able to answer…good bye!

By: Harith

Harith — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:31:03 +0000

Aaron There is a theory that modifications of the titles or meta tags of several pages at one time, might trigger a filter which cause the affected pages to be sandboxed. You can read about it on this thread of WMW