Lost a lot of traffic from Google recently? Slipping in the SERPs? You’ve heard of the Google Bomb, Google Whacking, the Google Dance and Googlisms, but there’s a new Google-word you might be interested in if you’re losing your Google Juice. What is this new term? I call it 302 Googlejacking. The problem seems to have been around since at least August 2003, and is commonly known as the Google 302 Pagejacking issue. To be fair, it has affected other search engines as well.

Word has it Google’s dancin again and the latest Google update is dubbed Allegra. I don’t follow how / why these updates are given their names but so far it’s looking decent. I’ve received complaints that folks sites have disappeared and others have increased in the rankings but that’s nothing out of the norm. As I dig into the changes I’ll provide insight.

Some rumors include an emphasis on GeoLocation with regards to sites and this would fit into the Local tab being moved to the Google homepage but right now it’s just speculation.

What is the Sandbox?

Before we get too far into an explanation as to what Google’s sandbox is, it must be noted that not everyone even agrees that the sandbox exists. The sandbox is actually nothing more than a theory developed to explain what many different SEO experts have witnessed with their listings. Whether or not the sandbox really exists is actually irrelevant when we know that the effects of the sandbox exist.

Without fireworks, with a simple few lines communicate on their Blog, Microsoft guys have officially announced the launch of their neww MSN search engine, which, consequentially, is not in beta anymore. As forecasted earlier last month on this blog, this happens in February, just a few weeks after their beta rump-up announcement.

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