Vimes - 12:31 pm on Jan 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

Here are some thoughts

links is where i'm looking at

Tedster

The idea of newly "released" supplementals is interesting, but in the examples I've looked at, the new results at 1-5 were not previously supplemental. They've been on page 1 all along and just moved up.

could there be a new influx of links valued to these site from the immerging supplementals. where it could be the profiles or even the quality of links to the sites that haven't dropped. causing the flux

Billy

Just trying to put some pieces together here... We know that Matt is saying he didn't know about this (it was not intentional) and since he would probably know of a penalty, then we might be safe in assuming this is not a penalty of sorts. Going back to the unintended consequence theory, it's not so much that the results were previously supplemental, it's the fact Google is treating everything as one big index now. So perhaps this tweak in supplementals twisted rankings elsewhere enough to pop some sites into higher positions (again, the unintended consequence theory). I know we are seeing a lot more traffic (+45% on Google and 120% increase from AOL) especially on long-tail searches (4 + word phrases) than we were before, so something has changes for us.

also recently sub-domains are being treated slightly differently are you guys/girls that have dropped linked heavily from this section of the web or maybe the sites that haven't dropped are linked heavily from them? Was it the first week of December Google mentioned the change.

For people who are experiencing #6, what are your internal links like?

this might be what Marcia is thinking about?

just thoughts i was getting while reading the thread.

Vimes.

As an added are the sites affected from proxy pages? home pages are normally where they start the crawl.

[edited by: Vimes at 12:35 pm (utc) on Jan. 3, 2008]