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Google's New Site Rankings -- How to Optimize a Webpage for Google Search Engine?

WhipperSnapper

WhipperSnapper

Lifer

One month ago one of my websites was at the very top of the Google list for relevant, targetted searches, and I could take specific text from my website and search for the phrase and the website would pop up. This morning I discovered that my website would no longe come up while doing a phrase search and that it no longer appears near the top of the list when doing a targetted keyword/phrase search.

What gives? Apparently Google changed the way it structured its search engine results. Has anyone figured out the secret to the new Google? What is needed in order to optimize a page for the Google search engine today?
 

ROFL. That is a rather funny suggestion, but no, it had nothing to do with search engine optimization. (On that note, if you're looking to hire a search engine optimization consultant, hire the one who shows up at the very top of the search results.)

Anyone have any thoughts? From what little I can tell, it seems like the new Google engine only looks at the first couple hundred words or so of a page. I will have to study this further.
 

Well, I do have an update. Apparently my page is in Google's search engine--but it's as though it got rid of a more recent cache and now looks at an older, cached version of the page. That's bizarre because it didn't have any problem picking up the newer version of my page in searches before. Why would they update their engine and discard more recently cached pages in favor of older pages?
 
Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper

Well, I do have an update. Apparently my page is in Google's search engine--but it's as though it got rid of a more recent cache and now looks at an older, cached version of the page. That's bizarre because it didn't have any problem picking up the newer version of my page in searches before. Why would they update their engine and discard more recently cached pages in favor of older pages?
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And it is written in the scrolls of Molkar,"In those times it will be as though Google got rid of a more recent cache and now looks at an older, cached version of the page. And there will be the throwing up of hands in frustration, and the gnashing of teeth will be heard in the lands, for it is vanity, and a striving after the winds to seek to be always at the top of thine holy page. Praise be to Google." And those who read the scroll were troubled, for the tidings were not glad, but full of dread. If happier times are to be, the seers have not spoken of it, neither is it written in the Scrolls of Forgotten Lore©.
 
I would suggest making a webpage that doesn't suck and having other poeple link to it because it contains good information.
 
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