pokerjoker - 9:42 pm on Aug 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

Suddenly, around 13 August 2005 the fresh tags went away for those SERPs. Real sites began to vanish or drop in the results. There have been no fresh tags and no cache updates in those pages from 13 August 2005 until today and as of right now, there are still no fresh tags and pages are showing which have been modified but not updated by googlebot.

Excellent observation quotations. I'm in the same boat-- after stable SERPs for nearly 6 months, I experienced a drop for the majority of my terms.

The Google cache for my site is showing a cache date of August 12th, while all of my competitors have a cache date of August 20th. What is going on here? Any guesses as to when the cache will be updated and what is happening?

Thanks.