Update Jagger, Google Update Oct 18th, 2005

When can we expect a new PR update?

[jretzer]

Continued from here:
[webmasterworld.com...]

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Anyone have any guesses as to when we can expect a new systemwide PR update?

[zeus]

reseller - I dont think any have dublicated webmasterworld pages, its simle a few scrapers and maybe a few 302 links, thats enohgh, if this stays, ww should begin to check those scrapers and 302 links.

makoi - I have a simple rule, NEVER get involved with anything related to your site and a SE, like removal tool, hosting, domain, sitemap ..., not because those are bad service, but I dont think its wise as search engines also dont tell how to rank.

[BillyS]

Maybe this has been talked about before, but it seems strange to me. I noticed that I was in my "normal" (pre-update) spot for the query:

this-that

But still rank horribly for the term

this that

I do use hyphens in my URLs but I would think the results would be very much the same.

[BillyS]

By the way, good job to reseller for making his point about Bacon Polenta. Before I realized what you were trying to do, I thought it quite annoying.

Obviously you and Dayo_UK are onto something. As GG mentioned, the best set of results is yet to come.

[walkman]

a LOT and I mean a LOT of totally spam sites have come back on this update, at least so far. I mean the sites with keyword--one-keyword-two-three.com, all interlinked and with 90+% similar content (all same theme). Google had eliminated them 16 or so months ago. I'm done guessing..just need to wait and see.

[zeus]

walkman just wait until late this week and the next, then such site will be gone again, they just adding new "filters" functions.

[walkman]

has anyone come back since the October 7-8th update?

[WebPixie]

"has anyone come back since the October 7-8th update?"

Not all the way back. I was page 2 for most of my keyword phrases, disappeared on the update, reappeared page 20, and slowly made my way up to page 8 currently.

I haven't changed anything of note.

[driwashsolutions]

I did notice some activity on the datacenters this morning, as a matter of fact, one of them was local to me. I regained the top spot that I had lost, and the DC checker confirmed the top spot.

However, this afternoon, I was back to page 12.

[walkman]

WebPixie,
define disappeared :)

from some reason, google has dropped most of my pages in the past week or so. Gbot visits daily (200+ visits) but only really gets a few pages. It checks the rest by getting the gzipped version (about 7K instead of the around 30K normal size). There is NO dupe issue, and all the content was entered by hand (on a database), and pages are about 60% - 65% similar (much less than many ranking #1 right now).

Inside pages are linked very well, and most have a PR3

[randle]

has anyone come back since the October 7-8th update?

We did not experience any changes on that date, for us it was Sunday October 16th when things changed dramatically. Once those new results appeared, we have not seen anything change other than very minor fluctuations. The talk is the second phase is coming up, but so far for us it’s the same as the 16th.

As far as the results themselves, I certainly don’t mean to be critical of the Google master plan, (and I have every confidence there is one!) the results right now are a bit bizarre, not what I would describe as any sort of an improvement. There have been past updates that were a bit painful, but you could objectively step back and say with some degree of confidence it was an overall improvement in what the user experiences. What you see right now, personally I just don’t really get it, (but perhaps I’m missing something).