Google Directory Seems to Flip Flop

[Huntersbiz]

When the Google directory updated (about 10 days ago?) it did it's usual dance as it moved across the servers and then settled. But the last couple of days it has been showing the old results more often than the new.
Has anyone else noticed this?

[nubbin]

Hi,
I have just been affect like this as well.

My site made it into Google for the first time this week. It was crawled on about 10 March. Yesterday, it was getting top 10 rank for one of my keyword phrases, and Google had a snapshot of my web page in its cache.

Today my site has disappeared from Google. There seems to be no evidence of it in the cache. I'm hoping this is just a temporary glitch.

Has anyone else still got this problem?

[jdMorgan]

nubbin,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]!

This is normal behaviour for new sites. You are seeing the results of being listed by freshbot, but not yet having your site indexed by a monthly update.

A site search here on WebmasterWorld for "my site dropped/dumped/disappeared from Google" will turn up hundreds - maybe thousands - of posts on this subject. It can take up to 60 days to get a good, solid listing in Google.

Jim

[nubbin]

Hi Jim,

thanks for the friendly and helpful welcome to the forum. Your reply prompted me to dig around the messages in the google forum and I've read lots of useful stuff.

One thing I'm still not clear on is if all IP addresses starting 64 or 216 are related to Google. There are messages in the forum that say Google's bots use IPs starting with these numbers, but I'm not sure if the appearance of these IPs in my server log guarantees Google has crawled my site

Would be grateful for some advice on this or where else I should look to finds this out for myself

Thanks
Peter

[netguy]

Nubbin... my experience is deep crawl is 216.239.**.** and FreshBot is 64.68.**.**

There are many people here that can give you more on this, but I do know that you can't just look for all '216s' or all '64s' for Google. There are many other servers using the 216/64 IP prefix.

[toddb]

I am seeing old results still on my keywords. I had climbed to the 4 spot on 4 searches and I am now back to page 2 on an old cache. The most disturbing thing is my backlinks shows zero then they are there. Very unsettling.

[netguy]

toddb... It appears to be happening only on selected keywords/phrases. Virtually all my 'flaky' results for the past couple days cleared up last night - except 1.

The remaining one was showing new cache and good results for awhile last night, then disappeared sporatically this morning. I am seeing the new cache and results on www2, www3, and www-dc though, although total results are all different.

Go figure...............

[toddb]

the good news is now having been around this forum a few months, I know better then to panic. Give it a few days then panic if need be. ;)