Wednesday, March 17, 2004
We're back in top 10
Just time for us to write the previous post and Google updated again. The cache version of our mangeur de cigone page was updated to March 17... and it's back to rank #7 in the contest.
We knew this would happen. We're just happy (and surprised) it happened so fast :))
We knew this would happen. We're just happy (and surprised) it happened so fast :))
We're worried
We mentioned in our previous post that last night's Google dance made our page drop from rank 8 to rank 14 in the competition.
That's no big deal. Nothing to worry about before June 14 ;-) The scary thing is that the cache version of our page in Google reverted to its March 7 version. Meanwhile, most of the other competitors' pages have a "March 16" freshdate in Google's cache. It's probably the reason why our page dropped. It's also why we are confident that it will come back to page 1 of Google results as soon as its cached version in Google has been updated. We just know this might take up to 3 weeks. Should this happen again beginning of June, it would then be a big penalty for us in the contest :((
We already had recently noticed that it took Google a lot of time to index new pages at ActuLab. We also had often seen this cache reversion phenomenon. The question is: "why does it happen to us and not to most of the other sites?" We sure will keep on looking for the explanation.
Would you have any ideas, please let us know...
That's no big deal. Nothing to worry about before June 14 ;-) The scary thing is that the cache version of our page in Google reverted to its March 7 version. Meanwhile, most of the other competitors' pages have a "March 16" freshdate in Google's cache. It's probably the reason why our page dropped. It's also why we are confident that it will come back to page 1 of Google results as soon as its cached version in Google has been updated. We just know this might take up to 3 weeks. Should this happen again beginning of June, it would then be a big penalty for us in the contest :((
We already had recently noticed that it took Google a lot of time to index new pages at ActuLab. We also had often seen this cache reversion phenomenon. The question is: "why does it happen to us and not to most of the other sites?" We sure will keep on looking for the explanation.
Would you have any ideas, please let us know...
Pagerank is bullshit
Google dance last night brought our mangeur de cigogne page a PageRank of 4. That's the good news. The bad news is that our page drops from rank 8 to rank 14 in the competition. Some pages ranked above ours only have a PageRank of 3.
No surprise, just a confirmation that PageRank has become a real minor factor in Google. It's just made for suckers. With PR, we lost our last bad reason to use Internet Explorer. Let's switch to Mozilla.
No surprise, just a confirmation that PageRank has become a real minor factor in Google. It's just made for suckers. With PR, we lost our last bad reason to use Internet Explorer. Let's switch to Mozilla.
