Sites Returned

[jilly]

Many of my sites that had lost nearly all of their listings in AV now have the pages returned today. I assume they are messing with their data base. Have any of you seen this today?

[rcjordan]

Not on my kws, the German sites are still mixed in (set to English only). But at least the porn site isn't there anymore (-unless it's in German).

[mayor]

Yes, Jilly, the AV url:www.mysite.com query suddenly reports all my lost pages. Unfortunately, this is not yet resulting in any AV traffic to my site, which has been nearly zero ever since being dropped several weeks ago.

Well, maybe where there's smoke, we'll find fire. Would be a nice Christmas present from Scooter, wouldn't it.

[Dumpy]

Jilly:

We had 150 domains with 35,000 pages go missing a month or so ago. We sat quietly and pouted! We discontinued submitting. Newly submitted domains never appeared. We went from highly profitable to just above break even. We bought listings on inktomi and added new revenue programs, and built back to profitibility.

About a week ago a few pages reappeared, and this morning I find the have all returned. Hits per hour have doubled....but nothing like they were before. I have a feeling they are all buried way down in pages. But, we are happy...it appears that they have updated with their deep spider they performed a month ago.

[rcjordan]

Yes, now the porn and German sites have been properly filtered out... but the SERP is, ummm, well, dredging up stuff that has rarely seen the light of day before. I'm out of my #2 slot, but it looks like I have 15 or 20 in the top 50, stuff I've never submitted. This looks strange, I think the db is still in flux.

Seth? You have a fix on this yet?

[Marcia]

I'm back - with date modified Dec. 2, which is a more recent date than they had before.

[jilly]

Much of the stuff we're seeing for our sites is veryyyyy old. Like 1998 old. Most of it doesn't even exist anymore. I wish AV was as good at listing new pages as they are at listing 404.html pages! It makes me nuts that we bust butt to update our catalog pages and wind up with listings from 2 years ago!

Jill

[mayor]

My whole site has been dropped again from AV, except for pages which are listed in DMOZ. But it matters not ... my pages were buried at the bottom of the barrel and barely drawing any traffic.

[mayor]

Now, an hour since my last post, all the pages are back. Jeez, this is making me dizzy.

[jilly]

Well on and off since my first post on this topic our results have been fluctuating between one page found and all of them found. Not that it matters, the search results on the keywords still have us mostly buried. Does anyone have any idea what is going on, or is this just a spam purge?

[startup]

AV is integrating LookSmart titles and descriptions into the database. Sites that are in both have had their titles and descriptions changed to LookSmart's. At this time, AV is buggy, they missed an updated for late last week or early this week.
Hang on to your hat! I think this wild ride is just starting. Let's wait for it to settle down before we try to figure what AV wants now.