from Mexico City
I’m at the airport in Mexico City this morning, the city of 25 million people, on the way back to Atlanta.
I was speaking at a conference of WSI franchisees. About 20% of the audience only spoke Spanish, and since my Spanish classes are a pretty distant memory, I gave my presentation in English. However, there was a guy translating as I spoke — it felt like I was at the U.N. or something.
Mexico city is quite something. But I think I’m going to hold down the traveling for awhile. Except for a trip to Manhattan for Seth Godin’s one day seminar, I’m going to stay at home — and maybe figure out what’s going on with Google.
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Posted by Brad Fallon on Sunday, January 22nd, 2006 at 8:57 am 
I am a relative new newby to SEO and have been keeping track of my site’s link count with Google, Yahoo and MSN daily. Someone told me Google only reports quarterly, but I was excited and have kept dated records for three weeks now.
I have noticed that my count changes daily, going up and down. Is this normal or an indication that I need to optimize differently?
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I’ve noticed on a daily basis my site being on different positions on Google. When your’ve starting like yourself, its hard to figure out whats happening. Hopefully, with experience knowledge will increase.
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It always feels good to get back home!
And it will be interesting to hear what you discover about Google.
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yes, brad glad your back, waiting to get your take on GG and hopefully some direction.
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I am very disappointed! If we had known we would have gone to the conference! Mexico City is only 2 hours from us!
Any future trips planned to Mexico?
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glad to hear you had a good time in mexico, eagerly awaiting the next google pr update
Looking forward to hearing about your next google muse as well… It does appear that the big “G” has been causing everyone to scratch their head lately…
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Brad, are you saying this is what happened?
Just curious because I may have the same problem?
all the seos blame 302′s when their sites tank
I can’t wait for the next Google update.
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It may be that seos blame 302s but we know 302s are still a problem and who’s a bigger target than those ranked top 2 or 3 for a very competitive keyword?
Brad, I for one am glad you take the time to give us a little insight on the SEO haps as you see it. Mexico to Manhattan and still giving your blog a little attention- I don’t know how you manage.
Are you going to start up SEO radio again soon?
Thanks for your efforts,
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I can answer that question, Casey, as I work with Brad on his radio show.
He’s had a new guest the past two weeks and will have another one next Tuesday’s show and at least 2-3 more in February.
The past two shows should soon be archived on the seoradio.com.
Well, can be translated like “secuestro”
It’s good to know that you like Mexico, I live in Sonora, Mexico, just 2 hrs from Arizona.
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Brad whats been happening to your wedding favor site?
Hello Brad, I am very happy for having attended to the conference in Mexico City, I am an Internet Consultant for WSI in the 25,000,000 people City and thanks god I have a big market for my very young business. As you all can imagine I have plenty of things going on with all the Internet solutions I provide as an IC, but after hearing Brad’s conference my attention was immediatly taken to SEO and the potential of business in my country since almost no one provide the services here in Mexico. I hope to hear some advice from the SEO community to have a good start on this adventure. (maybe someone would like to partner with me)
Hi Ricardo,
My name is John… good to hear that you learned a lot from Brad… he is very resourceful and really does try to help others. I started out as a newbie a year and a half ago (but I still consider myself a newbie in some ways… smile) anyway, i will shoot you an email and we can share ideas.
I am glad that seo radio is back up and online… I look forward to hearing more broadcasts
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Hey Brad,
Welcome home, and congrats and figuring out what G is up to… and getting MWF back into #1 slot.
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Glad to hear that you had a good time in
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My site is down from 2nd to out of the top 50. Trying to figure out why that is very difficult. Anyway I will keep trying.
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Wow Baz,
I am sorry to hear about the drop… having you ever considered using seo elite to monitor your back links?
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I recently stumbled onto a self-heralding SEO guru that told me that Google has a place where you load all of your page link urls into for Google to spider.
Can anyone give credence to this concept?
I’d be interested in doing that if it will bring my PR up!
Hi Gwendolyn,
I was speaking with someone the other day and learned that there is even away of submitting your site to various google data centers directly… have you ever heard about that?
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Yes, I have been wondering about the google update also. I have generated a number of outside links to my other sites and even done some link exchange, but I guess my links are not showing yet. I can be patient.
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Yeah, I’ve heard some good things about the Google sitemap submission thing, but with everything you need to have a decent site for it to stick in there..
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The sitemap has been working wonders for traffic on several of my sites. I can’t recommend it strongly enough. We’re also running some tests on other sitemap types right now via php scripting with blinding results. If you haven’t used it yet, get to it; the difference between before and after is glaring.
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So where can we get some information about sitemaps, for us newbies???
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Hi Everyone,
I would be interested in finding out some more information about sitemaps… because I am kind of a newbie too. If you have a link that you you can give that I could go to fo find out more about sitemaps please share…
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We use a site map powered by FreeFind.com for our site. (be sure and click on a link!) It’s free and really easy to setup. It is not hosted at our server, which has me wondering if if helps our site’s ratings any. Does anyone know?
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Matt Cutts was on SEO rockstarts, podcast should be up later today.
Matt Cutts was on seo rockstart… I missed that one, do they archive? I don’t have a podcast but if they archive online I would like to check it out.
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Hi Gwendolyn,
Thanks for taking the time to answer my post on sitemaps, I appreciate it.
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The man of leisure, how about you pop on down to South Africa and let us in on a few secrets my man…
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Hey Brad, its great to see MWF back at the top again.
All the best.
Mexico City doesn’t sound too bad this time of year…a little warm sunshine would be nice. I just finished up the Search Engine Stomper CD set, thanks for a great product Brad!
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Thanks Brad, for sharing so much information with us!
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Wayne,
Funny that you should mention Brad coming to africa… andy was just there about 2 months ago on a vacation. You just missed him. (smile)
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Hi Wayne,
Yep, that’s right Andy was down in africa about two months ago on vacation.
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Keep on rocking Brad. Maybe not a wedding favor but it takes all sorts:-
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Dear Brad,
I am so glad that I bought the STOMPER products. We are doing great with our new website about GS Motorworks Mopeds.
Thanks!
Vince
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Great point Beverly,
You are going to have good content rich sites to survive in google
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Yes,
Content is where it’s at. If you put up sites quickly and keep good content on them you will be around longer. This should be a part of your overall strategy.
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Beverly,
It is also helpful that I mention that it is possible to get good quality sites up very quickly
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That’s true… You can get good content sites up quickly without compromising the site’s integrity if you know what your doing
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Sometimes I think the people at Google attends more site optimization seminars and courses than anyone else so they can laugh at us for trying to guess what helps with ratings! I can just hear the evil chuckles as they change the formulas to counter the latest
I’d like to know just what is going on with Google too.. Our Visitors have dropped to 30% as well as many of the terms we optimized for being gone
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Like the rest, I’d like to know what’s going on. As a newbie, and just getting started, for several weeks I have been showing as being indexed on Google, but no PR and no reference to any backlinks, however, this week, not indexed at all.
Could it be that we are placing too much emphasis on changing algorithms and not enough on the possibility that all this up and down and back and forth is possibly Googles own ineptness? Could it be that their home-grown server system, basically like a room full (literally hundreds) of desktop PC’s tied together by a home-grown software program that’s supposed to keep track of where the data lives, simply can’t deliver consistent results on a regular basis?
Insiders at Google admit that they have multiple server failures per day, and hope that the data was backed on another server that doesn’t fail. But in their defense, they do have multiple redundancies. So which server was that on??
I can see fluctuating PR and position based on algoryihm changes, but indexed and then not and then back again? Maybe they are snickering, not because they’ve outsmarted us again, but we give them credit for more intelligence than they really have.
Frank
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same thing going on with me, indexed #1 for fairy ring facts but no pr yet, guess they haven’t updated the pr bar yet
Paul… Google doesn’t update the PR bar very often. Whenever they feel like it, they do it (It’s usually every 3 months or so).
The thing you should be worried about is where in the rankings you are. If you’ve got a nr.1 ranking, then that’s fine.
Gerard
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Just curious, when you say the stomper video is ready, do you mean its coming out this year(one year after originally promised) or next year?
Also curious, what are the odds that a video on seo that was filmed last year is still relevant today, just in case it does come out this year?
Google has been sporadic of late, I do think that it time is closely approaching for them to do another update.
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Okay, today, after weeks of being indexed, and then not, I’m indexed again. Still no PR, and still no reference to backlinks. Doesn’t look like I’ve been crawled again, simply appears to be data restored from a previous backup. I still think it’s a Google technical issue rather than an algorithmic change.
Gerard, I appreciate the insight on the PR update!!
Frank
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gerard, thank you for your reply,
On a similar related note, all of us Internet people deserve a good rest.
I am gonna hit Puerta Vallarta for a well deserved one week rest.
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Anyone know how to tell if you’ve been spidered? Traffic stats? Thanks!
Brad,
Just finished your stomping the search engine cds. Thank you for all the great information.
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Welcome back. I hope you’re rested because Google seems to be having a bit of a tantrum. I went to my site and was shocked, but I went you myweddinfavors.com and mortified. But I did feel a little better that it wasn’t only me who’s perplexed.
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Hi Ricardo,
I’m also a SEO from Sonora Mexico with 3 years in the SEO business, please drop me a line to share some ideas.
Brad congrats for allow us to contact more latin SEO through your web site.
Regards
Manuel
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