Hm, Ken's home page is top of the Google list for Ken Wolmen.
I doubt that your links would account for the sudden change. (I am, however,
a few years out of date in what I know about this stuff.) It is a massive
collection of links, right enough; must be a nightmare to maintain.
You might find some info by rooting around at Google's support area
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/google.public.support.general
Or you could try contacting them -- if this is about a bug in their upgrade,
they'll want to know about it.
http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=webmaster&hl=en
P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Douglas Clark
> Sent: 14 June 2005 18:51
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Bourbons
>
> Peter. Thanks. What I think you are saying is that Google
> doesnt like my personal links which are at
> http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com/urls.html
>
> You will find Ken's blog there. There are more than 100 links
> there but from what you sent I think that that is not the
> problem. (I have over 100 links in pages elsewhere but that
> has never mattered before). It seems that Google just dont
> like my taste in URL. Oh well.
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
> http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Bourbons
>
>
> > Found this >
> >
> > What has Bourbon filter/algo adjustment gone after? So far
> it looks like:
> >
> > Non-thematic Linking
> > Duplicate Content*
> > Fraternal Linking
> > Run of Site Links
> > Low Quality Reciprocal Links
> >
> > * Google Bourbon seems to have screwed up their duplicate content
> > detector,
> > and there are many examples of Google assigning "authority" to the
> > duplicate
> > page, and restricting the original page to the "similar
> results" filter.
> >
> > The victims of the Bourbon Update are in panic mode - some
> hypothesize
> > that
> > Google misidentified their site as a "scraper site" due to
> their AdSense
> > placement and penalized it; others are going as far as to speculate
> > (incorrectly) that Google is somehow detecting their AdSense ads on
> > scraper
> > sites, and considering them to be links from "bad
> neighborhoods", which is
> > patently incorrect, as none of the search engine bots will actually
> > trigger
> > the JavaScript that loads the ads.
> >
> > However, upon viewing a few of the sites filtered by
> Bourbon, they have a
> > number of things in common - basically 2 or more of the
> factors listed
> > above.
> >
> > Lesson to be learned? Don't reciprocal link with any old site -
> > viagra-casino-porn.biz is not a good link exchange partner
> for a florist's
> > website.
> >
> > Think like Google - what "signals of quality" does your
> site have? How can
> > you increase and expand those signals? What can they do to
> automatically
> > detect both quality and low-quality signals.
> >
> > Google is trying to present their users with the best
> search results -
> > concentrate on what criteria, apart from the basic on-page
> factors, they
> > are
> > using to judge the quality of a given page. Google wants
> quality results -
> > if your site isn't ranking well in the post-update
> aftermath of Bourbon,
> > reassess your strategy and look into what factors Google's
> algo might use
> > to
> > rank sites now, and in the future.
> >
> > <
> >
> > Me, I'm curious about 'why bourbon?' Is it a) to do with
> biscuits; b) to
> > do
> > with whisky; c) to do with the 1830 revolution in France
> that overthrew
> > the
> > eponymous dynasty that had been restored after Bonaparte;
> d) did I miss
> > something?
> >
> > P
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> >> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> >> Behalf Of Ken Wolman
> >> Sent: 14 June 2005 17:05
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: website blackilisting
> >>
> >> Peter Cudmore wrote:
> >>
> >> >Strange. I typed in (well, let's be honest, I cut & pasted in)
> >> >http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com/ at Google, and it came up with the
> >> >required site. I'd infer that the Bourbon thing might be
> >> responsible,
> >> >but that it is a blind consequence and not volitional.
> >> >
> >> >One of the things Google uses to rate sites is how many
> other sites
> >> >reference it. It took a long time to get the Edinburgh
> Review's site
> >> >onto page 1 of a google search on that term, because there
> >> are so many
> >> >incidental references to the historical ER out there.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> After running my own name in two identities (Ken and Kenneth
> >> Wolman, vaguely related), I'm really at a loss to figure out
> >> what's going on. I had no idea I was in that many places.
> >> This isn't "fame," it's almost scary. Whatever this Bourbon
> >> thing is, it has not dropped me off the radar. I'm listed in
> >> places going back to about 1991, and there are one or two
> >> things I'd rather forget I ever wrote. Then again, Poetryetc
> >> seems to be quite visible: I could reconstruct my output over
> >> the last two years simply by searching against Poetryetc.
> >>
> >> Ken
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Sarnoff Corporation
> >> 609-734-2538
> >>
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