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In times gone by I have been effected by an update and slowly reappeared after a few days, but this time there is little evidence of a recovery.
The BIG question: Is Google broken and will they fix it, or are they happy and things are not going to change.
I feel they should let us know eitherway, because we want to help them rank good quality sites, namely our own :) If they are about to change things again then perhaps they realise that many good sites have suffered and it is their mistake. If they are happy with the new index then I suppose their silence is an indication of that, however, how they can be happy with endless 'stats' pages etc. in the top positions I shall never know.
Come on Google, Are you fixing things or not?
bek.
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Bek I've also noticed GG following Brett around the posts.
On the other hand, I would not focus on messing with existing stuff, especially if it is doing well on existing engines other than the great Google God. Build new sites for what the new Google wants.
tantalus--if you have a page on your site that has been shunted, you may find it more difficult to get Google to play with a new page on the same site than it is to get Google to play with a new page on a new site.
MQ
[edited by: mquarles at 12:47 am (utc) on Dec. 3, 2003]
Yes, come to think of it googleguy is very silent, only seems to join in bretts threads now have you noticed that?
If you were him, would you stick your head into this hornet's nest?
The BIG question: Is Google broken and will they fix it, or are they happy and things are not going to change.
If you are counting on getting pre-Florida results back, it's time to stop waiting. It's not going to happen.
I'd wait a few days. I believe big changes are rolling through as we speak. Filters are rolling back and SERPs are updating similar to pre-Florida for many phrases.
I've made a few other posts to this effect but no one has picked up on it, so maybe I'm just going crazy.
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I think that is interesting, the big worry is that domains get tainted with some kind of 'bad boy' label rather than individual pages. I suppose the smart move is to put effort into new sites.... sigh.
Anybody made changes and recovered?
However I just launched a new site in what I think the "new google" wants will see what happens.
Bek.
Subpages have PR2 as of now. Let's see what happens next. That alone is driving me lots of traffic.
I just have one site, but have had about 10 new pages crawled and listed in the last week... they mostly show PR0, (not sure if I noted the PR for all of them), but are right up there in the serps. The Rolling Update continues to roll.
[edited by: Stefan at 1:19 am (utc) on Dec. 4, 2003]
Previously, even when I knew what site I wanted to see results from, I would use google because the toolbar made it so convenient and G had alredy done the indexing for me.
Now G provide's such poor results that I simply go directly to the site that I know I want to read a post from. It seems as if G shook things up for no particular reason, because their beta testers could not have O.K'd these results.
One prime example of this for me, is when I try to search for help on JAVA programming, or ASP.NET programming, or any type of tech documentation. I find their results to be pathetic. I was a big fan of G...now I'm pulling for the Looksmart Bot!
Just my 2-cents.
