Update Allegra - Google Update 2-2-2005

[illusionist]

My site which came back on december 26 update, seems to have disappeared again on this data center [216.239.53.99...] . Its notwhere to be found even in allinanchor, allintitle etc? I see majot change on that data center, is this a new update?

[LostOne]

"I've been through this sort of stuff before. I made absolutely no changes with the site when it tanked in September. Now its back. Go figure."

Same here, but it was mid December when the hit took place.

"It looks as if they've turned down (again) the weighting given to TITLE and Hx tags"

I complained about that two weeks ago when we were in the dumpster. Now that two major phrases of ours have improved in the results title tags are working.

Yes it looks like an update to me, but we have been doing much better without Goo. They just add some more pleasure when we don't expect it anymore.

[danny]

Age isn't helping me.

My home page now ranks 33rd for a search on my name!

[Dynamoo]

Well, out of three main sites that I run, two are significantly up and one significantly down. The two up ones are listed in the ODP, the down one isn't. Perhaps this gives some weighting to the "authority" sites theory.

The "down" site is also quite well optimised on page, the "up" sites not so much. Odd.

[Localizer]

During the last week of December I lost for 4 directories the title and description at the index.
Traffic decreased extremely, I panicked a little bit and removed 2 directories to see wha't will happen.

Well.......those 2 directories which I lef alive are back in the index! Including those new directories.

Strange thing: My second site which is competing my flagship, is completely messed up overnight. I lost ALL titles and descriptions for all 600 pages.

Anyone experienced the same?

[joeking]

I cleaned up a blog style site in December that had become choked with comments from casinos, etc., with links to their sites. Not surprisingly it was nowhere in Google, PR had dropped to 0 and it wasn't even ranked for its own name.

As an aside, it wasn't penalised by either msn or yahoo for this, only Google.

I've added new content regularly over the last month or so.

After seeing this thread, I checked its main keyword today and the site is now ranking in second place.

So certainly some major SERPs changes are underway from where I'm seeing things.

[taps]

Total desaster for me. My site almost has vanished from google. I can still find some serps - but very deep in the 20-30s.

The site content only - around 2.600 articles, mainly how to's and tips.

However I can see googlebot crawling madly across the site.

Maybe Google decided to throw my page out of the index and to rescan it completely. One possible cause: The site is in Google for about five years now. By changing the URLs from

www.widget.com/showarticle.php3?widgetno=1

to

www.widget.com/showarticle.php?widgetno=1
(without the "3" after php)

and last spring to

www.widget.com/how-to-use-a-widget_widgetno_1.html

some duplicate content appeared on the site. Maybe the do a complete rescan and hopefully my site will show up again.

[Hinso]

Google virtually stopped all referrals to one of my sites this morning, but they seem to have started returning results for some keywords in the last half hour or so.

Perhaps those of us who have lost a massive amount of traffic today should give it a bit of time for the new SERPS to settle down. All is not yet lost ... or is it?

[valeyard]

Looking through some of the worst affected keyphrases it seems that a lot of the sites unexpectedly ranking well have very low toolbar PR.

Is it possible that this update hasn't had PR added into the mix yet?

Of course that would mean I was wrong about TITLE and Hx tags, but I'd far rather think I was wrong than think that these results are going to stick.

[sailorjwd]

After 5 years of consistent, good, search results ranking, my site as almost disappeared - not even first when search on my company name.

This is absurd..

Is there an email address at Google to ask if my site has been penalized for some reason?

[Dayo_UK]

Ditto

Cant find my site by typing in the site name!

What is going on?