sodascouts - 3:32 pm on May 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

I've been following this topic with interest. I see people have been looking for trends. I have two fansites, one of which is affected, one of which is not. They make good contrasting examples, so I thought I would offer them.

The website that is unaffected has thousands of pages and went online in 2001. However, I have not updated it on a regular basis for several months. Its format is very basic. It is still #1 for our keyword and when I do the Site: search all 10 pages of results are non-supplemental. This has been the case for many months; there was no improvement or change at all regarding its positioning or indexing.

My other website has been drastically affected. It went online in November of 2005. I update it several times a week. I have been experimenting with .css and am not yet good at it; therefore its coding is not as clean. Pre-Big Daddy, its position for our keyword had reached #12. Now, it radically changes daily, up and down, and completely unpredictably - it doesn't rise every day or fall every day. One day it is #33, one day it is #72, the next day it is #55 - you get the idea. Initially after Big Daddy, 4 pages were non-supplemental out of over 600 total. After a couple weeks, that had gone up to 12 - all of which were older versions (one of which had actually been deleted). A site: check today reveals that the site now has only 7 pages that are non-supplemental. Again, this is completely unpredictable, and I have done nothing differently on the pages that are indexed than I have on the pages that are supplemental.

I'm afraid I have no answers, just these strikingly different examples to contribute to the pot.

[edited by: jatar_k at 3:40 pm (utc) on May 16, 2006]