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?

[Chico_Loco]

Well, I've decided that I'm going to put up a banner to those referred from Google to mention that MSN search is a lot more consistent and that they should be using MSN now and not Google.

For keywords both in and outside of my industry, they results look dismal. And this is coming from a hardcore Google fan for the past 3 or 4 years!

[arubicus]

Welp this is a bummer.

4-5 year old site down the well known toilet. Never had a problem in any search engine ever. Time to get the plunger and see if we can get the website to resurface.

[twebdonny]

All I can say is make sure you are writing emails to G
about such. Comisserating here does nothing to help your case.

Suggestions: [e-mail]

Praise and complaints: [e-mail]

Not satisfied with search results? [e-mail]

Report errors, bugs and broken links: [e-mail]

I have a question and/or need help using Google: [e-mail]

[Jon_King]

I think we are going through a flux in some areas. I have similar situations with top sites dropped or pushed down in the serps. The newly ranked are Amazon books, RSS industry feed sites and the like in our serp areas. This has happened a couple of times before to us and it straightened out to our benefit after a week or two.

[ulysee]

I wonder if a real update is coming because googlebot is eating up every page of my site right now.

[jdwaverly]

Link Popularity is back as very important ranking criteria in the search terms I monitor.

[edited by: jdwaverly at 4:11 pm (utc) on Feb. 3, 2005]

[sailorjwd]

I just fired off pleasantly pleading emails to all google addresses...

I bet they are getting 100's per hour.

I still don't understand the mechanism as to why Firefox shows normal (good) search results for me and IE6 shows my site deeeep in the results.

Can anyone enlighten me as to how this occurs?

[soquinn]

A domain I work on with PR6 and 16,000 backlinks as of today was not in top 100 for dozens of keywords it held positions 1-5 for 2 years prior? Site is 6 years old and all sub-domains, sub folders and pages have also been effected… they had never fluctuated more then 2-3 spots with past updates and was last crawled and cached on of Feb 1.

What’s interesting is that it can still be found on searches for it's own “domain” name straight up (so I assume it’s not been dropped) but on “target keyword + domain” I only see other websites where it is listed, referenced or linked? Looks like a filter on keyword clusters or a filter/penalty on the domain? Sailorjwd, Firefox does not make a difference in this case.

[bether2]

Interesting to see the similarities between this thread and the one 6 weeks ago at [webmasterworld.com...] . Seems to me there is something of a reversal going on - I see a number of people commenting here with the opposite of what they commented in the last thread.

Unfortunately, no reversal for me. My site was hit hard by the mid-Dec update. Many previously high-ranking pages got buried deep in the serps and google traffic went way down. Now my pages have moved *much* further down. From buried deep to almost out of sight.

Oh well, I'm still doing well on Yahoo and MSN. :)

[edited by: bether2 at 4:24 pm (utc) on Feb. 3, 2005]

[metrostang]

I'm still seeing at least two different results when comparing datacenters. This is still a work in progress. One result is typical of what you would have seen a month ago and the other is slightly better, but I'm not seeing sites disappear from the searches I monitor as has been indicated here.