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<edit... there is new pagerank. -fi and -cw seem to be leading the way.>
[edited by: steveb at 9:18 am (utc) on Aug. 8, 2003]
:-(
EquityMind
zeus
Not meant to be a 'me too' post, but rather to give a bit more data to those 'experts' who seem to be able to make sense out of these things.
WBF
I noticed some of my backlinks are now of the form [domain.com...]
But SERPs seems to be the same at all. OR should I say, SERPs had already been updated 1-2 weeks ago?!?!?! (remember the one that people refer to a continous minor update?)
This is the day that people get to draw graphs of PageRank propagation or to see visual indicators of their link hunting efforts. This is not the day to 'update all the results' like in the old days.
Twilight47. dmoz has been erratic lately due to the upgrade process. Perhaps they delivered old content or a 404 when Google spidered the page where your link should be.
That would bite. ;)
It's as if they have done a complete re-scrap of links etc and not all are being shown.
I'm not just talking of external links - for example, internal pages that are still indexed, still have PR5 on -cw, are not counting as backlinks on a link:www check.
Anyone else seeing this or is it just me?
Peter
One of my initial thoughts is that Google have done a complete re-building job of the links - I kinda feel they needed to in some respects, they hadn't been updated visibly for 2 months and even those were way out of date in some cases.
If this theory were to be true, maybe the visible results we are seeing are from a massive amount of work, maybe this is why it's took so long - but that this work is still going on. After all there is a huge amount of data for them to crawl and sync.
Anyone else got any views?
Also, I'm seeing an older site (pre-dominic anyway) show a significant increase in the number of internal backlinks. Though the total number of pages has increased as well.
Description: Offers logo and website design with online portfolio.
Category: Business > Business Services > ... > Graphic Design > Firms > L
These listings in DMOZ and Yahoo still exist, why would Google drop them?
SERPs for me are unchanged, so I'm assuming that either 1/ the SERPs have already been adjusted and the backlinks are just showing up; or 2/ the backlinks are showing up and the SERPs are going to adjust accordingly.
Critter:
I agree, I think the former is true. I think you will see very little changes in the SERP's, other than the minor ones that we have been seeing.
For what it is worth, I am seeing backlinks from as recent as July 28th.
SERPs for me are unchanged, so I'm assuming that either 1/ the SERPs have already been adjusted and the backlinks are just showing up; or 2/ the backlinks are showing up and the SERPs are going to adjust accordingly.
SERPs are unchanged for me too on the datacenters w/ the new backlinks. Backlink dancing appears to no longer be a indicator of an update going on, more likely, an indicator that the update is finished instead of starting.
[edited by: skipfactor at 9:27 pm (utc) on Aug. 8, 2003]
Hmmmmmm.... back to the drawing board.
One reason why I think more changes will occur is that I have a site with 66 backlinks with loads of anchor text getting only 30 hits per day from google/yahoo.
All in all, I would guess that the "rebuilding from scratch" concept has merit, that they decided they finally did have to go public, even though these backlinks have many errors, if only because these backlinks now are a better representation of reality than what was showing.
If we look at this as new bedrock data replacing the February bedrock data, it can't be seen as anything but a very positive, major improvement, but hopefully the next update will have significantly less errors.
(Now... about... updating... the... directory...)
In fact I'm not that worried about reported page rank either these days - just get the right mix of anchor text from 'decent' sites, and let Google worry about the page rank.
Anyway, it seems that the page rank not showing for pages indexed after April update has been corrected, or at least for me.
Thanks
I'm not that worried about reported page rank either these days - just get the right mix of anchor text from 'decent' sites, and let Google worry about the page rank.
Amen 4eyes, that's an understatement. Except for those super competitive keywords <g>.
