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link:www.webmasterworld.com on www.google.com = 3940
link:www.webmasterworld.com on www.google.com = 3990
link:www.webmasterworld.com on www.google.com = 3990
Finally, some 9 months later my faith in GG has returned. Last months update and now this one has been a cracking success. New sites listed with brilliant results for my hard work and even better the return of many old ones too.
The old ones appear to have come back gradually over the last 3 months... What I cant understand is why that process is taking so long. Sites that have thousands of inbound links and no real 'on-the-page' optimisation were kicked out almost completely back in Oct last year and have taken til now to return.
przero2: I'm sorry to hear you've had problems yet again. I know you also have suffered for quite a while. Moving to a unique IP was a wise move but as you have found out, a risky one. Googlebot appears to prefer stability and blows a fit if you change anything. I hope you get it sorted eventually.
:)
z6
a few sites have jumped ahead of mine with PR2 when I have PR4 and one of these sites is brand new with zero inbound links.
But aren't you able to only see the current "www" PageRank, not the updates "www2/3" PR? So perhaps the PR of those sites, or yours, will have changed with the new update.
On the site with zero inbound links, though, are you saying that they also have no links when running the links query on the new database?
I just popped in to Webmaster World and what do I see but the dance thread. My new site has every one of the pages on www3 and www2 but 0 on www. It is ranking much better than I thought, with every keyword/phrase that I can think of on the first page of SERPS.
I just had to jump in :)
Can anybody confirm this?
I can't confirm it, but I hope you're right.
Here's what I'm seeing now on the site that's most important to me: The home page has had an indicated PR5 for months, and is very well positioned for phrases for which it's also content-optimized and well-themed. Plenty of #1 through #10 results, using the May index.
But on www2 and www3 right now it's buried on the second or third pages for most of those search queries, and a links query shows none at all. But every one of the linking sites that I've tried (and there aren't a lot, so I tried them all) do show up in the new index.
So I'd feel better thinking that chiyo is right, and the halfway decent PR of the site isn't yet being reflected in the serps on www2 and www3.
My experience over the last couple of months is that a new site (with brand new PR) has stayed where it initially appeared as the rollout began.
We had several new sites that received excellent placement right out of the gate with the prior update. There were close to no changes in position downward, a few actually improved a bit midway through the month.
With this update, we have a lot of new sites that achieved great positioning. I will be keeping an eye on them, however.
Eric:
Given what I've noted above, I'd say the PR must be pretty well fixed at the beginning of the update, just not revealed until www begins to stabilize.