Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
All indications are pointing in the direction that we are approaching heavy changes in Google's index infrastructure. Matt has confirmed that several times. As such its of importance at present to keep an eye opened on possible changes on Google's datacenters.
In fact watching and analyzing changes on the DCs of high importance, IMO. Because it tells us much about what do we expect tomorrows serps to look like, and might take actions regarding our sites in good time.
Some of us are addicted DCs Watchers and we do that with passion and there is no doubt about our spirit of sharing our observations with the rest of our kind fellow members . However, we are often blamed of hijacking other threads if we have no place to post our observations and remarks ;-)
For you passionate Google Datacenters Watchers, I'm starting this thread.
Let those observations, analysis and remarks coming.
Thanks!
I really don't understand why these results have propogated if indeed Google is letting spam through. Maybe they are just judging how the public reacts to them.
I'm seeing PR update on the toolbar on this DC
216.239.57.104
anyone else seeing this. It's been like that for a while now but i haven't seen it shift across.
Vimes.
Oh just found another
216.239.53.99
I am not sure if it is an update or a rollback to the old PR. Few sites it looks like PR has reverted and for Matt's blog, PR is still 7 on those DCs while it was PR0 prior to the update. I am inclined to believe it is an update.
I thought it was an update as my homepage was showing Google's directory PR, and newly published pages where showing an increase.
But its gone now.
No where to be seen on any of the dc's i look at anyway.
Vimes.
I saw it too and it was a rollback...(I mean as far as I can tell...)
Well its back again. Both on
[66.249.93.104...]
and my default google.dk
[66.249.93.99...]
We should be used to by now that BigDaddy DCs going on-off
during the testing period :-)
Have a great day!
The cache dates on this DC are clearly wrong - with some newly cached pages showing an older date or no cache at all.
I do think the big thing will happen when the PR (at least internally) is recalculated once G have correctly identified Canonicals and 302,301s etc...........
But as G still have not given up on PR from the last update then this looks a way off. MC said a week or so ago, 1-2 months, cant see it within that time frame personally.
this time I wont get so excited and this happened Sunday morning and by Monday night my site was gone again.
one thing I notice is that it's showing an update Cache date again?
We have a lot of different domains orginal content etc.., but it was an odd thing to see the main website in the top 5 for a term it has never ranked on, but was ranked from another domain we own.
Anyone else have something like that happen?
Matt would be disappointed, but I'll say there has been no change for 18 months now.
None of the sites I work with has changed ranking in all that time, and all the ancient supplemental stuff that we want cleared away is still there.
We can't change anything and the old purpose of threads like this was to talk about Google updates and Google dancing, neither of which happen anymore!
Nowadays we have everflux and different dc's being used simultaneously. Thus Google updating is near continuous.
Unfortunately this is reflected in there having been a 'update' thread running continuously for the past god knows how many months!
I just not sure at this stage if we are expected to see ranking for the damaged sites.
Personally at this stage it just seems that Google are trying to figure out the correct pages to crawl (specifically homepages) - I really really hope that ranking (PR) is to be added in later - Matt has not really made that clear.
I am getting fed up of searching for titles of my site and getting pages that link to the site - but then again I have been doing it for a year or so.
I was hoping to see some gradual improvements. But over the last two weeks - Nothing.
Well to be fair if you have had a 302 hijack or canonical problems then this is exactly what you should be looking for on this DC judging by MC comments. Google has had problems with this area for a year or so.
It's got about as much information as result 6... (another page not found). Two out of 10 - what a mess.
>>>Result 4 is a good one...
It's got about as much information as result 6... (another page not found). Two out of 10 - what a mess.
But [66.102.9.104...] is not Big Daddy. I did not think we were discussing the default SERPs?
Starting to think that nothing is going to come of this so called 302/Canonical fix.
GG first mentioned it at the beginning of Jagger on October 20th as part of the Jagger changes - now 11th January and we still see little progress for sites that have been penalized due to this problem.
So 3 months of little movement with Google saying things are in the pipeline.
Hmmmmmmz........it does not look like it is ever going to get fixed.
Its too early to give up or draw conclusions. Matt "Inigo" Cutts said to give it 1-2 months.
And not to forget that a PR/Backlink update might already take place in January followed by an algo update sometime in February (a new Allegra maybe?)
Meanwhile keep watching whats happening on the other DCs. Very interesting reshuffling indeed ;-)
GG said give Canonical issues 2 weeks or so in October time.
I will eat my hat (gladly it has to be said) if G do fix the problems anytime soon.
I'm tired of Google... period. I need a break. I'm going to head for Vegas for a week after this weekend to take a breather from all of this SERP stress.
Then I'll come back and play catch up... if things stay as they are I won't have much catching up to do as I still only see < 20 google search referrals per day lately... things can only get better I suppose.
I'd really like to see some positive changes here. Maybe MSN and Y! have a chance. G is showing a large weakness in that they seem incapable of making widespread changes in a timely manner.
