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!
Seeing a small variation of Big daddy results first time in India, It seems big daddy is about to spread across other DCs,
I think thats unlikely as MC has confirmed that it may be 1-2 months before it goes live.
So - I reckon the "fix" may be spreading. I hope so. That site of ours has been nowhere for so long.
On that subject I have to say a big thank you to Webmasterworld. If it wasn't for the discussions here I never would have heard of the word canonical, let alone begun to suspect that I had a problem like that.
What is the ranking of the homepage like on the DCs you are back in - ranking well - or just ranking? (as in the 100s from nowhere?)
Is it just your homepage that is ranking again - or some internals?
Also when did your site go missing/problems begin?
Personally - I am seeing no visible progress on the test dc - and have not seen anything encouraging on any of the other dcs either.
Cheers
Dayo
Still see BigDaddy on my default google.com 66.249.93.99
I don't dare to say; Thats IT!
But on the other hand, it could be; Thats IT :-)
there is something definetely going on with google,
The homepages you are seeing come back - are they ranking anywhere near decently? - or just back - and poorly ranking.
was that a month ago? Time passes you know :)
This should penalise his site a bit...
;)
Good evening folks
No doubt that the folks at the plex have expected much of BigDaddy according to what we have read untill now on Matt "Inigo" Cutts blog. You name it and BigDaddy will resolve it. Thats at least what Matt has been signaling.
However, at this advanced stage of BigDaddy we are not seeing much of the expected improvements, Canonicals, supplementals, redirects etc..
We have ended with a talk about a Guitar Hero and improvements in infrastructure which we are not supposed to notice ...instead
Maybe at the end, if we are lucky, shall witness the recovery of sites with canonical-light, redirect-light, supplementals-light problems. The rest shall remain suffering as they have already done since the begining of last year 2005.
And it seems Matt's great BigDaddy expectations have ended as a sweet dream about renting a Pontiac Montana from Alamo car rental place in San Diego.
Lets do as Matt. Just forget all about BigDaddy and start dreaming about guitars and big cars :-)
What is the ranking of the homepage like on the DCs you are back in - ranking well - or just ranking? (as in the 100s from nowhere?)Is it just your homepage that is ranking again - or some internals?
Also when did your site go missing/problems begin?
The page has a PR 5 although it is showing 6 on these other DCs, which is how I spotted them to discover the improved results. (these DCs feature on a future PR tool)
As far as I can tell the only real difference in ranking is for the home page. The site is called city-widget.com and ranked position 60ish for "city widget" before the change and 10th after the change. It used to rank higher than that about 2-3 years ago, then slowly slid down the rankings. (Naturally in Yahoo its number 1)
The site has been underperforming for forever, and recently we remade the site completely, making it a whole lot cooler and adding LOTS of content, which is why I generally expect it to get a PR6 (it had that once then lost it) Actually I used to say its poor positions were fair enough as the content was so poor and I even congratulated Google for not showing it!
So...it could be that the changes we made are really the main cause of the changes in positions. BUT when looking at the site I discovered an incoming link to the [site.com...] page and discovered that this version of the page was in googles' serps and had a PR2 instead of the PR5 on the www URL
Thats what made me get a 301 done, having learnt about that here and in Matt Cutts blog. We didn't do a re-submit or anything else, but I have trouble to find the www-less site in G's serps now.
I'm still not happy with the results for that site, but I fell confident now that we can start to edge back up the results, especially if the Big Daddy canonical fix migrates.
ScottD
I play guitar. I recommend it
ScottD
216.239.57.104
216.239.53.99
216.239.53.104
Anyone else seeing canonical issues solved on these?
I dont see it there. IP addresses might be better. In this situation I'm talking about 216.239.39.104.
My .au ip is presently 216.239.59.104 - and it is same old same old.
"216.239.57.104
216.239.53.99
216.239.53.104
Anyone else seeing canonical issues solved on these?
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Just checked a couple of sites with known canonical issues and they are also unfixed - I think your 301 did the trick as it should, but there isnt anything special I can see...
Anyone else?
