Over Optimization Penalty Launched Today

what is that, can you explain?

google stock price i guess.
he is corelating the fact that ever since the shitty panda updates,there fundamentals havent improved much to justify a price increase in the stock,hence it's moving in a range.
 
Ladies and gentelemen, there is absolutely NO WAY that this new "Panda refresh" will last in its current form.

I'm finding a shit-ton of parked domains ranking on the first page after this new refresh. We aren't talking about recently re-renewed domains either, we are talking about permanently parked/squatted domains.

I know Matt talked about how they had a bug with their parked domains bot, and had to undo some things, but this just doesn't make sense. There's no way this is going unnoticed at the big G.
 
I don't think google will roll back the update, it's not in their nature. They've never done it before, only tweeked their system to fix the "mistakes".
 
SuperLinks, you make some good points. The massive fluctuations may have everything to do with their parked domain classifier. I'm sure they are working around the clock to resolve the problems or are already pushing out to all the datacenters if they fixed it. Unfortunately, my research is not showing parked domains ranking. But many of the top ranked sites are so thin that they could indeed be grouped into a parked domain class.
 
Update: Just checked this morning and my sites have dissapeared again. So there is some sort of dance going on. Someone else also wrote they saw their sites come back but had dissapeared again by the time he started witing his BHW post.

Thanks Ramsweb. It was definately hit by the over-optimization update (my site is aged and doesn?t dance very much). Homepage dissapeared completely for ALL keywords. Some of my new inner pages (without backlinks) remained in the SERPs, while others went down -50 and -100. I didn't want to do anything unusual like removing what I thought was over-optomization (alt tags on all pictures containing some form of the main keyword etc) in case it highlighted that I was trying to force my come-back. The only thing I did was post a blog post like normal as if nothing had happened. I check before dinner I was still nowhere, checked just afterwards and was back. There must be some sort of manual/semi-manual review pocess going on and if everyone comes back then I wouldn't consider it a long shot if this was all to scare black-hatters into calming down their game...
 
SuperLinks, you make some good points. The massive fluctuations may have everything to do with their parked domain classifier. I'm sure they are working around the clock to resolve the problems or are already pushing out to all the datacenters if they fixed it. Unfortunately, my research is not showing parked domains ranking. But many of the top ranked sites are so thin that they could indeed be grouped into a parked domain class.

All my research shows paperthin pages or internal pages such as blog posts are far outranking sites that actually have relevant content. I also find it interesting that my AS are slipping and my partially completed MNS are rising in ranks or holding steadfast.
 
Even after being sheared, I hear a lot of Google sheep bleating about how if they were just better Google sheep they wouldn't get sheared.

If you are not content to continue acting like Sisyphus, the mythical Greek figure condemned to push a rock to the top of the hill only to have it roll back down and to repeat this forever,

then maybe you would like to help me try to start a viral Facebook page

Boycott Evil Google.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Evil-Google/222971817815440

This is probably an exercise in futility, but it is plain to see that Google is broken and now is the time to go on the attack and try to get them some bad publicity.
I just need a few million fans to make a stink. Help me get them, please.
Fight the bastids!
 
I think key-word density is one of the keys. I made an analysis on all my sites and the ones with a rather high keyword density dropped in ranking.
 
Wow, crazy serps now. Search for "python hosting", and look what's #1. (www.python-hosting.com) A little thin on content, but very useful site, and a good user experience.. OK?
 
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SuperLinks, you make some good points. The massive fluctuations may have everything to do with their parked domain classifier. I'm sure they are working around the clock to resolve the problems or are already pushing out to all the datacenters if they fixed it. Unfortunately, my research is not showing parked domains ranking. But many of the top ranked sites are so thin that they could indeed be grouped into a parked domain class.

The parked domains thing happened on the 19th. This is not it. It is also not the "panda refresh" that was earlier as well. This is the real deal with the over optimization penalty...I wish it wasn't but it is...The results do look pretty bad right now, so I am hoping they fix some of this, but who knows...
 
I'm pretty sure it has something to do with:
- Speed of links rising;
- Too much unnatural link building (with too many "keywords" and no links like "click here").

What do you think? I've many sites affected and some not. And the only saved have less links and they sounds more natural..
 
Well my brand new site (not quite finished) has been indexed for about a week or so. So far it ranks for 'diddly squat' with no search terms in the top 100...

I guess that's the idea. Leave it there and the 'natural search' ranking algorithms will push it to the top.

Funny though, I would have thought it at least needed a trickle of traffic in order for people to find it and start linking back to it, otherwise they won't ever be able to see the relevant unique content on the site. :D
 
The whole thing is a big mess. I am seeing so much rubbish its ridiculous, I just did a "new roof" search in my city and got a local radio station talking about their roof top garden in the top 10.

I also have a site i did for a client 4 years ago, it only has an image on the page with no text and now it ranks at 5 for a carpet cleaning key phrase.

They will have to knock it back.
 
That video of Hilter freaking out about his rankings is fucking hilarious! Just about sums up how I feel right now.
 
I doubt their first attempts at this will have succ3ss, and maybe make troub1e for WHsites, but I think eventually it will work to clean-up the trash cont3nt and s'pam-er crud. I hope to see more r3ward1ng of well writt3n and unique cont3nt....

omfg the "moderation" system is a huge PITA
 
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