Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Reseller,
Having looked at these dc's in some detail, I have to disagree with you (tho glad you're making a comback!).
Because of major changes to a site I have in the OCT-FEB period, I can pinpoint the vintage of the index quite easily (and confirm the site specific results with others I am familiar with). What I see on these dc's is an index made up of ancient results (circa AUG 2005) with some additions from FEB or so.
If this truly is the result of the carnage of the switch to BD then Google has accomplished nothing in the FEB-15 to current timeframe.
If as you say, Google knows exactly what they're doing, what they are apparently trying to achieve is to augment the AUG-05 index with a few new pages. If you mean Google intended to "break down" the entire index and rebuild it "live" - unlike in the past where more or less finished updates rolled onto all dc's over a 5-7 day period - then I might agree. What I can't see is the reseller frindly ® dc's being anything but yet another interim step. The difference is, I see the process as scambling to try and fix an unanticipated scru-up, you see it as an deliberate plan.
Either way, I'm counting the days until Microsoft rolls out their new product as Google is ripe for the taking ... takes awhile for the public to turn against a SE but there certianly is precedent (remember when you couldn't turn on your TV without seeing ads for Lycos?).
From a webmaster point of view, the ideal world is MSN, Google, Yahoo with 30% market share each.
[edited by: tedster at 10:32 pm (utc) on April 6, 2006]
Good morning Folks
I find it rather difficult to draw any conclusion about anything on the DCs right now.
Just about every day I see some new serps regarding my test search query.
I.e the new infrastructure isn't stable yet at all. Accordingly, we might post our daily remarks and keep watching, but shouldn't rush to issue any final judgement or conclusion yet. Everything is still possible to happen ;-)
Not one DC has fixed the site ranking problems for Canonical url sites on the whole.
Sites which had there PR pushed down to 0 due to the problem have had the PR come back, to me sites which had the problem no longer have the non-www/www issue (although I am sure there are some about) - but The penalty they applied to these sites for having the non-www indexed is still in place.
Until/If these come back (As PR has come back - sometimes I am optomistic they will) then I dont think Big Daddy infastructure has either worked or been fully applied.
I agree with you. They really need to focus on one specific thing instead of covering every different thing at once. I can understand that they need to shuffle things around and thats fine, but with the canonical issues that have stagnated the serps in my area, it seems they are still having issues they neeed to attend to.
I am seeing something new with our site.
Having fully recovered our pages in the index together with associated ranking I was surprised to see that ALL our internal pages went PR0 yesterday or the day before.
The homepage remains PR6 on the toolbar but all other pages previously varying from PR6 to PR3 have gone to PR0 in the toolbar.
All pages continue to rank as well as they did when the PR was in the toolbar.
This seems to be a new and strange problem?
"The homepage remains PR6 on the toolbar but all other pages previously varying from PR6 to PR3 have gone to PR0 in the toolbar."
They call it at the plex "Dynamic PageRank of Internal Pages" :-). For no logical reason, sometimes pages go from PR0 to PR5-PR6-PR7 etc... Other times pages go down from PR7-PR6-PR5 to PR0.
It could be a part of an operation to fix the canonical issue. It could be that its part of testing new SpamRank factors. It could be......
Does anybody have the same problems?
It was a bit of bonus traffic and $$$ for a couple of weeks and got of few new IBLs out of it :-)
Within the last 4 days I have lost almost all indexed pages
strange but true for me too, PR remains unchanged
"Within the last 4 days I have lost almost all indexed pages (except main page and Supplementals)."
Has that happened on all datacenters or just on few specific ones?
Thanks!
I think at all datacenters. Maybe there is one specific....
