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First I see dozens of sites lose all their backlinks for no good reason...one way links from PR6's and PR7's ignored as backlinks.
Then today the deep crawl bot hits these sites which now have PR0 and PR1 values (previously PR5+ sites) and behold they are restored to their former glory at the top of their categories, but they still show as PR0/PR1 on the toolbar? The rest of the competition on the first 2 pages all have PR6/PR5.
Search terms used are most popular for the categories. It makes no sense....but I am very happy to see it:)
I have to believe something went wrong with the update and it is now being corrected via this deep crawl activity which is somehow reflecting the correct PR's in the SERPs but still showing the no backlinks value on the toolbar.
These sites have also been removed from the Google Directory, even though they have been in Dmoz for years.
Can anyone confirm they are seeing similar things happen?
Anyone with a logical explanation for this activity?
GoogleGuy want to comment that you guys hit the blue button by mistake and are now correcting the problems?;)
Is this the first signs of a totally fluid index, but we only get to see new PR values once per "month"?
Whatever it is I like. During the last 5 hours I have seen totally destroyed previously powerful sites get back their positions:)
There is hope for Google yet, and my phone is going to ring with a pleasant tone tommorrow!
The post update crawl is fairly traditional for Google. Early part of the year and all of last year - that was the normal way the system worked. They'd already started building the next index.
Major branches of the ODP have been moved or changed. Google hasn't reflected those changes yet. You can find quite a few 404's in the directory to categories. I've not checked, but the word is that Dmoz has not updated the RDP dump in quite awhile. Thus, Googles only putting out what they have to go by there.
As for backlinks, I've found a hand full of people at most that have lost back links. It's not wide spread and a symptom that something is wrong with the site.
