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Today, everything seems to be back as it should be; the index page is returned when I search on the site name, and it has been boosted a couple a places from its pre-Dom ranking.
Is anyone else seeing this problem getting fixed for their own sites?
I Dropped out of the index last weekend completely for the index page by tuesday i was back in with a better PR and refreshed each day until this weekend where it dropped again to a lower pr.
Simplisticaly it is almost like google has a 3 stage process rotating. (a)Searching and indexing 1/3 of the directory (b)filtering and listing a third and compiling this and showing a (c)third of the site from a prior index.
a then becomes b, b becomes c, c becomes a and so forth.
just my 2ps worth
Maybe Google has this problem sorted?
There is a problem here, and it seems to be affecting a growing number of sites.
Experiment
I took 10 of the sites whose index pages were missing a couple of weeks ago.
I did a search for each across all 9 centers. I then repeated that search.
Result: For 5 of the sites, the index page was missing on at least one center for the first search only. All was fine on the second and subsequent searches.
For 2 of the sites, the index page was missing from -FI, not just on the first but on all searches.
Conclusions
a) The -FI center still has some index pages missing
b) The others centers are FAR from stable. The index problem is NOT fully solved. Sites are still being lost (or filtered out) on some searches. This corrects itself on subsequent searches.
Don't shoot the messenger, but Google is still encountering serious problems/errors or alternatively still seems happy to sacrifice countless excellent sites in pursuit of whatever it is they are after.
I seemed to have searched (and maybe you did too) while a little everflux was making it's way through the serps.
For me the introduction of the fresh tags didn't change any of the top ten placements for a couple of phrases that I watch, however for a moment things were very unstable (index pages missing, for example, and different results as I refreshed) - now though, they are stable (for me).
What I was suggesting is that the problem is there, but it seems that rather than taking days to 'get it resolved', here it seemed to take mere minutes...
This has been happening for at least 72 hours. Once I have corrected the SERPS with a second search though, I can't seem to repeat the problem for quite some time afterwards (as though it somehow remembers - although obviously it doesn't). However, I CAN repeat it maybe 12 hours later for the same sites on the same terms, not necessarily the same centers.
Obviously there isn't enough data to exptrapolate the problem from... but there is certainly something there.
i can confirm the same observation with my own sites.
