trakkerguy
msg:4099621 | 4:07 pm on Mar 17, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Caffeine is not showing for me again here in Calif on google.com, on the same IP, 74.125.19.105. It was live for less than 24 hours yesterday (and for some hours Friday).
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dusky
msg:4099623 | 4:11 pm on Mar 17, 2010 (gmt 0) |
| My Vbulletin forum traffic has dropped to a crawl overnight since 3 days ago. This forum has over 100k pages under site:mysite.com. I lost rankings for all keywords overnight. Adsense dropped from $20/day to 0. No, I haven't upgraded vbulletin to 4.0 nor done any updates for months now. Still have 3.8.4 |
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Yes, it seems G* is moving their data in chunks to new infrastructure, many of the sites I manage lost 90% of traffic for no reason and almost 99% of keywords ranked for couldn't be found by them for the third day now. Some of the sites are authority industrial sites, respected by the industry. Well, the reason may be the proper caf switch which is now happening, why, because those sites have now (last hour) started ranking again as usual and traffic is returning slowly.
The only explanation I can come up with is when you search for the ranked keywords and you come up blank, but pagerank and the site: and inurl: total is normal, is that info is held in different database clusters and probably even different infrastructure altogether, whereas the returned search is in different DCs (probably the old DCs and now moved slowly to the new ones). I had a clue in WMT yesterday when the keyword link did not have any keywords, only the Why link, I was for THREE days with a sunken heart wondering what's happening as nothing was changed on those sites, and yes some of the sites had forums (almost unique software) and literally forced myself to wait and did not send a recon request. I'll know for sure in the next 24 hours.
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whitenight
msg:4099675 | 5:12 pm on Mar 17, 2010 (gmt 0) |
| Yes, it seems G* is moving their data in chunks to new infrastructure |
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I can confirm from what I've seen this appears to be what they are doing. :)
In the wee hours of the morning last night, Caff datasets were on various IPs.
About hour or more later, those DC/iPs were taken off-line for a few hours.
I wondered how exactly they were going to make the INFRASTRUCTURE switch as it's been obvious, and also noted by others, that they wouldn't be able to seemlessly "overlay" the datasets and infrastructure into the current Big Daddy 2.0v.
Hopefully, Gorg has worked out all the kinks this time and we can get back to reverse-engine..err..umm... analyzing the new Gorg soon.
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1script
msg:4099701 | 5:41 pm on Mar 17, 2010 (gmt 0) |
@dusky:
Dusky, you may be onto something here! I'm looking at the fresh stats and I am seeing some of the top keywords (not all, bummer) starting to appear in usual places on page 1. However, at the same time I have one more site that got nixed today, so it may be far from settling down just as yet. Let's watch it play out, fingers crossed...
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Pass the Dutchie
msg:4099718 | 5:50 pm on Mar 17, 2010 (gmt 0) |
they do it while we sleep ;)
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1script
msg:4099759 | 6:26 pm on Mar 17, 2010 (gmt 0) |
@dusky:
| I had a clue in WMT yesterday when the keyword link did not have any keywords, only the Why link, I was for THREE days with a sunken heart wondering what's happening as nothing was changed on those sites |
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I hate to say that but this clue might have been misleading. I never lost any data in WMT, all the keywords were listed there except of course the reported SERP positions were wrong. Pretty much none of those I checked had ANY position - gone. I am starting to find them now but I'm discovering to my dismay that most keywords are NOT returning to their original position - they are in most cases only show up on Pages 2 and 3. Still better than nothing but nowhere near to be "fixed", so to speak.
Could it be because the data about the URLs (snippet, title, URL) is kept in a DB separately from the ranking factors and is yet to be synchronized?
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tedster
msg:4099780 | 6:56 pm on Mar 17, 2010 (gmt 0) |
It certainly could be. As I understand it, Google shards their data into smithereens and then re-assembles it from data tags for search results. That's one reason that they can only give us "about" numbers for total pages.
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brinked
msg:4099802 | 7:28 pm on Mar 17, 2010 (gmt 0) |
AOL's servers are located in cali, so it makes sense that it would have the caff results the same time caff was seen in cali.
comcast servers are in mass. Hopefully last night was a good sign that caffeine is being finally ready to be rolled out in the very near future (how many times have we all said that before?)
I'm going to miss these kinds of speculations when caffeine actually is finally rolled out. Can't say this all hasn't been fun
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helpnow
msg:4099970 | 11:29 pm on Mar 17, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I am seeing a revert back to data from a few days ago on some IPs...
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Tallon
msg:4100033 | 1:08 am on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Anyone else starting to think it will be Easter weekend before things are all said and done? If we're lucky.
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textex
msg:4100035 | 1:15 am on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Or maybe this is it. Two different sets of results.
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louieramos
msg:4100036 | 1:17 am on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I see 2 different sets of results too..
30+ DC are showing caff result
70+ DC are showing old result
What are you guys seeing?
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helpnow
msg:4100053 | 1:51 am on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I am seeing at least 3 sets. Maybe 4... But... it's not even that simple. I am seeing flux, more than I am seeing distinct sets. I am seeing flux everywhere I look. For me, right now, things are fluid and in high-speed motion.
My brain is insisting on phrases/words like "flux", "screwed up, "mess", "in transition", "#*$!?!", "big change going on right now", "gorg is chasing its tail", and not "dataset 1 vs. dataset 2".
-shrugging- that's what is going on in my neck of the woods...
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potentialgeek
msg:4100079 | 3:16 am on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I added several links to related products on another site (Amazon affiliate program) and lost ranking by about eight places. Then I removed them all. Ranking came back. Weeks later I added one link to one related book on Amazon. Rankings dropped again. So I took the link off, and now my rankings are back.
Google doesn't like books?!
p/g
P.S. I haven't tested this on other sites. The one site with the problem isn't new. It has had good rankings since 2003.
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onepointone
msg:4100104 | 4:18 am on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Well I won't have to worry about that particular problem. Got banned by amazon affiliate prog. a couple of weeks ago!
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SEOPTI
msg:4100125 | 5:18 am on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
It's a difficult situation for long tail sites where thousands of URLs are removed from the index daily.
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mirrornl
msg:4100231 | 11:05 am on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
cafeïne here in the Netherlands/Europa atm
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JoeSinkwitz
msg:4100294 | 12:32 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Irrelevant .gov and .edu sites ranking for competitive phrases makes me LOL. It looks to be a rehash of an old 301 fix to take care of XSS issues -- yep, still more folding to occur.
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brinked
msg:4100340 | 1:51 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I think caffeine is going live today. Saw it on westcoast and now for the first time ever I see it on my iPhone (mobile google)
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nrep
msg:4100347 | 2:02 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Sorry if this is an ignorant question - but how are you able to tell if you are actually seeing caffeine?
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textex
msg:4100351 | 2:06 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Gotta love the predictions...
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Kelowna
msg:4100399 | 3:31 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I see the new new caffeine results are back up again on aol search and also the California proxy I have been watching. The rest of the proxies across the States are still hit and miss with maybe 50% or so showing the new caffeine.
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trakkerguy
msg:4100436 | 4:13 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Yup, been seeing caffeine on google.com here in Calif this morning...
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Kelowna
msg:4100438 | 4:15 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Actually I have to correct the last post, I just ran another report and on the proxies that I monitor the actual percentage that are showing the new caffeine results is up to 65% this morning, not 50%. Hopefully not too long before this is done.
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rjwmotor
msg:4100445 | 4:28 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
seeing it in ohio
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internetheaven
msg:4100454 | 4:34 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
| Sorry if this is an ignorant question - but how are you able to tell if you are actually seeing caffeine? |
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I think that's the best question asked so far.
I would imagine that some people saying they see "Caffeine" results are simply seeing "different" results due to normal flux and updates.
One of my sites jumped 4 places this morning ... I put that down to a good, ongoing link building campaign, not Caffeine. [edited by: internetheaven at 4:35 pm (utc) on Mar 18, 2010]
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brinked
msg:4100456 | 4:34 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
As of 12:30 pm est caffeine is now present on more than half my monitored proxies. Feels like a full rollout will be less than a week possibley 24 hours
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curioustoddler
msg:4100467 | 4:42 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I hope you are correct brinkred.
All this wait has been more stressful than wait for your child's birth.
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arizonadude
msg:4100468 | 4:42 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I was seeing it this morning in AZ but it is now gone.
I wish they would just do it! My traffic really skyrockets while it's live!
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whitenight
msg:4100488 | 5:00 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
but how are you able to tell if you are actually seeing caffeine? |
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I think that's the best question asked so far.
I would imagine that some people saying they see "Caffeine" results are simply seeing "different" results due to normal flux and updates. |
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No offense, (don't want anyone "scared" by my response) but i've answered this question in THIS thread and EVERY monthly thread since Jan.
And before the standard "rebuttal" arguments start again...
the Philosophy 101 concept of "how can ANYONE know ANYTHING" is absolutely absurd in this instance.
(there'd be NO reason for this forum otherwise)
Yes, there is also no ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that the sun will rise tomorrow in the East as:
- The earth could have a pole shift
- A nuclear war could destroy everything on the planet therefore no one would be here to OBSERVE the sun.
- The sun could go supernova today
- <insert your fav philosophy 101 explanation here>
In reality, Gorg is a relatively CLOSED system [en.wikipedia.org], unlike growing tomatoes, or the weather, or the millions of OTHER things in life
that are OPEN systems [en.wikipedia.org] with millions of variables instead of a measly 200+
that humans have been "miraculously" predicting with a high degree of accuracy for decades, if not, centuries.
And at this point in SEO's evolution,
i find people who claim "Gorg can't be figured out unless you work there"
either highly uninformed (and too lazy to do the necessary work to reverse-engineer the algo)
or purposely misleading others for personal gain.
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brinked
msg:4100527 | 5:36 pm on Mar 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
whitenight, Like you, I have also explained in full detail (in this thread) how one can see caffeine results. If people are too lazy to read through a single thread to find their answer, then they don't really want to know the answer that bad. You can only repeat the same thing over and over again so many times.
It looks like google is testing caffeine on more data centers during off peak hours, that's why we are all seeing it in the late-morning hours. For the very first time today I saw caffeine results on my home computer and on my iphone.
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