Google Update Bourbon Part 3

[Sweet Cognac]

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My whole site has a new cache date of May 25th. Maybe once these other sites around me get recached, I won't hold such an honorable top position. But at least Google has found my pages worthy to sit in the Search again.:) It seems strange to look at the stats and see Google in there, after 6 months of just seeing Yahoo and MSN referrals.

My website has plenty of outbound links, but they are on relevant pages. The problem my site has always had, was a lack of "inbound links." I got tired of searching for people to link to me (with all the spammy sites around) and gave up. So my pages have acquired some links naturally I guess(and I'll bet I still don't have more than 30 inbound links for the whole site) Still have a PR4, which I've had since it disappeared in Nov.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 8:54 pm (utc) on May 27, 2005]

[Dayo_UK]

Broker_boy

BTW - still not seeing the crawl activity I would like.

In the range of 30-40% of my site listed.

Cheers

Dayo

[reseller]

Dayo_UK

>Anyone else seeing this (or am i going crazy (which is possible)<

Many have been seeing this since allegra and they have already written tens and tens of posts describing the same.

What you see is nothing less than the magic of the rotating algos ;-)

[edited by: reseller at 3:50 pm (utc) on May 31, 2005]

[davthp]

12 days and if you type my keywords "red blue" my site redblue.co.uk comes top in MSN and top in Yahoo and I can't find the ***** thing in google. It does not exist in the top 200 results.

This is not a spammy site and services a small niche with very relevant listings.

In conclusion Google is broken.

[Dayo_UK]

Reseller

Nope totally different.

Rotating algo theory (which I dont believe in ;)) means pages rank higher and lower on keyword searches. It does not mean that pages disappear - I mean disappear for a while and then come back (Disappear - as in search for the url string eg: www.domain.com/thispage.com and Google returns a result saying :-

Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.domain.com/thispage.html

If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: www.domain.com/thispage.html

Find web pages that contain the term "www.domain.com/thispage.html"

EG - Google does not even know the page exists. (As if it has never been crawled)

EG. Google having problems holding on to crawled data (Well perhaps not problems - perhaps this is a new way of working - but you dont expect pages to disappear after such a short while)

[Clint]

Guys, I don't think this www Vs non-www means anything. I just took the first page results of a search at G where I was 1st, all ten hits on the first page, and I ran them through the header check as the www and non www version. They all show code 200 as mine do. I was about to change my htaccess file regarding this, now I don't see the point.

[edited by: Clint at 4:16 pm (utc) on May 31, 2005]

[oldpro]

Whatever google has been doing over the last 24 hours, it is total garbage. In my sector, nothing is relevant from positions 5 thru 30...just "made for adsense" sites. Doing research on several projects in other subject areas and google is useless.

If it is rotating algos, then I guess if I ever use google again for searching information I need to find out the time of day when the best algo is being used.

I know we should wait until this update is over before we make any judgements, but this thing has been going on for almost 3 weeks. That is a long time. My only conclusion is that something has gone terribly wrong. Google is in crisis.

[RobinK]

Dayo_UK,

You are not going crazy this has been happening to my site for quite awhile now. I cannot figure out why google can't seem "to hold the cache".

[oldpro]

My new project...

An epic novel entitled, "The Rise and Fall of the Google Empire".

Publish it online and just for laughs put adsense on it.

[steveb]

"It's not a technical glitch, otherwise I wouldn't still be first in Yahoo, and I would never have been #1 in Google to begin with."

This makes no sense, and probably is the heart of your problem.

"No one has a clue of what's going on."

You and many others have been told precisely the area of the problem you are facing, but you just ignore the comments, despite the fact that many come from peope who have experienced the exact same thing in previous updates.

Of course this won't explain everybody's problems, but the commonality in the complaints posted here generally points to the same old problems.

"Guys, I don't think this www Vs non-www means anything."

More the pity. Stop raging at the winds and fix the issue that has caused problems for thousands of others for more than a year.

<Some guy named Guido should come with webmasterworld registration who "requires" you to read previous threads before posting...>

[deanril]

One of my sites keeps loosing pages, home page grey bared, then since last night been loosing pages seems like 1 by 1. And if you search for the pages (in google for where they use to rank)they are gone in the index.

So basicly half my site (the ones i can see page rank in the toolbar) is still in the index and the other half(grey bared in the toolbar) is out of the index.

To me its not hurting I have a tool that tells me exatly "who's on" the site currently and I see no drop, Im just getting more traffic from my Yahoo and MSN ranking.

On the other hand its fun to watch whatever their doing in the background.

It started off with Home Page vanishing, then 1 by 1 my other pages are vanishing. I believe it will come back, rather I hope. But this is not a trend I've seen before, with 1 page by 1 page vanishing from the index and getting grey bared. Although all grey bared pages have cache, pretty weird whats going on right now.......